Excavation: Completed

[Chibi MitchellTF]

Lily thinks for a minute, while she takes another soil sample. "Let me check something. Hold on."

She then backs away slowly, and steps out of the forest for a good ten yards, to see if the breeze stops. If it doesn't, she walks back in. If it does, she walks back in.

[Mitera Nikkou]

Strangely enough, not only was there no breeze outside of the forest, but the breeze ceased inside of the forest once Lily had left. Lily, however, couldn't tell that that had happened inside of the forest while she was outside; Raleigh, on the other hand, could (if he were paying attention to what Lily was doing, and hadn't followed her outside of the trees).

What neither would know, is that the trees were howling their sympathy for Lily, as well as remembering horrors from the past. If a human could ever understand the trees of that forest (like so very few other creatures could), they'd learn of a past probably best not remembering.

[Chibi MitchellTF]

Lily notices that there is no breeze outside, and heads back into the forest. "Okay, that is definitely abnormal. Trees can block breezes, but not cause them!"

[Raleigh]

"You know, that is one of the odder things I have seen. Or felt I suppose would be a better term. Any theories as to why that happened?" Is trying to not let his overeager imagination run wild with thoughts of various supernatural events that could be the cause.

[Chibi MitchellTF]

She closes her eyes, and ponders what she knows. "It's dangerous to theorize without evidence in investigation, but the essence of science is to make a hypothesis and then try to verify it. It's possible that something within the forest is causing the wind current, and the trees are blocking it from getting outside. They may also be a subspecies, which could account for different nutritional requirements, or whatever is causing it may add nutrition to the soil. Either way, we must investigate further."

[Raleigh]

"That is fine with me. So you think we should go deeper into the forest or report back to the camp and come back with more people to help us look?"

[Chibi MitchellTF]

Lily takes a deep breath, and collects her thoughts. "We're already here, and I want to have something to report. We'll mark trees to be sure we can get out, and also leave a trail. They know we're here, so we shouldn't need to be afraid of getting lost."

At that moment, a crow flies past, a bit of thunder strikes far away, the wind stops for a second, and a little voice in Lily's head screams.

"It's not like it's a bad idea."

[Mitera Nikkou]

There are some thoughts that Raleigh and Lily should take into consideration. If they do, they would be: beyond their senses, they didn't have the proper tools for even a decent investigation; if they stray for too long, Donald (as their guardian and thus responsible for their welfare) would likely derail his plans and set back his progress by a day to seek them out personally; they had carried out their assignment, and they could always come back later; and, with such mysterious phenomenon, it might be best to investigate in larger numbers.

What they will do is anyone's guess. *Cue dramatic background sound bite* And, if they go with marking the trees, said trees wouldn't be happy. XD

[Raleigh]

"I feel as if our narrator just told us that would be a bad idea. Oh well, did you bring the chalk or are we just going to cut the marks into the trees?"

[Mitera Nikkou]

The fourth wall does very well at falling upon Raleigh for his comment. XD

[Chibi MitchellTF]

Lily glares at Raleigh for mixing Out of Character and In Character. "I'd have to cut into the bark. Let's nix the plan, we have the soil samples, we can come back. Going deeper into the forest is giving me a bad feeling. Plus, if something bad does happen, I didn't bring a spare dose of my medicine."

[Stellar]

Holly meanwhile has forgotten about digging in the dirt, and has began sunbathing out of boredom.

[Raleigh]

"Alright, you are the boss. Besides, I am really getting creeped out right now anyway."

[Mitera Nikkou]

After a while, Donald heads back out to look over the site, still wondering about that large rock. Even if it wasn't a clue to the settlement's past, it'd be a good idea to remove it so they could continue digging in that area.

Of course, he soon came across Holly, and smiled as he said: "Ah, so you decided to take a break, eh? Well, don't stay out too long: I once heard that someone burst into flames when they were sunbathing for too long."

[Stellar]

Holly jumped up, "Uh! Well, I... Yeah." She laughed a little, "I figured I deserved a break after finding that," she pointed to three peices of pottery wich seemed to fit together very well to make nearly the whole pot. Wether they have paintings or special markings on them is up to Nekkid.