Excavation: Completed

[Stellar]

The feeling inside Holly to not go further continued growing, but as it grew she couldn't stop wondering why she felt that way.

The two chattering behind her was just a blunt muffle in her ears. Holly set her lanturn down and kneeled on down, the weight of the 'continue no further' vurses the 'why not' became a heavy argument.

As the two girls counted down from three Holly stood up grabbing her lanturn. With much aggrivation she turned and marched to her left, determined to not leave the area, but still heeding her intuition.

[Chibi MitchellTF]

Then Lily grabs Holly by the arm. Though she does stumble a bit, she spins around and gets the arm she was aiming for. "Sorry Holly. But we are leaving. Now."

[Mistress Guendolen]

""Oof!" When Holly knelt down, Brenna, in true classic fashion, was dragged down to the ground with her, having been off-balance anyway. Unfortunately, it took her the longer of the two to get up again.... Giving up trying, she grabbed out at Holly's ankles. "You heard the girl," she said, angling a head towards Lily. "Let's get moving!"

[Stellar]

"What are you two doing?" Holly snapped out of her thoughts as the two mauled her. "I'm not leaving yet!" being a regular tennis player Holly was somewhat strong. So she struggled free from the two, determined to go around this area of foreboding feelings.

[Mitera Nikkou]

All of a sudden, everything went quiet, the wind died, and the air seemed heavy with something... Sorrow? Despair, perhaps? One might even imagine that some of the features on the bark of the trees appeared to be sad or forlorn faces, although a second look wouldn't show such a display. The pebble's light seemed to snuff itself out and appear normal once more, as if a flame on a candle being blown out.

Back at the camp, Donald noticed the glow of the crystal changing, and turned his head to regard it. The light became a burning-hot red, then eventually settled back to white, only it wasn't so bright as it had been before, and seemed dull. He might have considered that the radiation was finally dying down, but sensing that the crystal was sad made hi pause and think about it. For some reason, it made him think of the girls, and if they were alright, his worry for them coming to the fore again. After those thoughts crossed his mind, he was surprised to see the crystal brighten up once more, to a light blue color, and he swore that he could sense a feeling of hope coming from the crystal. Perplexed by this, he was unsure of what to do.

[Stellar]

Holly paused, held up her lanturn, and looked around. The strange way the forest itself seemed to change compelled her more. Stern, she turned around reguarding the two, "I'm not leaving yet. Stay here if you want, I only want ten minutes." She turned her head looking back to the direction she intended to go, this time waiting to hear their oppinions.

[Chibi MitchellTF]

Lily continues to attempt to drag Holly. "This has reached the level of 'too weird' for me. It is like they are attempting to warn us, to dissuade us. Please leave, I fear for your LIFE!"

[Mistress Guendolen]

By this time, Brenna had managed to scramble to her feet, and tried to assist Lily in pulling Holy away. "Yeah, what she said! I freely admit I'm not the greatest in the 'common sense' department, but even I can recognize this as a signal for something we don't want to stick around for! So c'mon and get your rear in gear!"

[Mitera Nikkou]

"My, my!" A melodious, if somewhat sinister, voice echoed about them. "What have we, here?"

As if a veil of shadows had been swept aside, a woman of ethereal beauty appeared before the three young ladies. However, unlike them, this woman was not of standard human appearance: Her hair was as dark as the night, pouring over her shoulders like a waterfall, contrasted by her soft, radiant, alabaster skin; on her back were wings commonly associated with devils, with the complementary fangs glistening below her upper lip; her smirk bespoke of bad things to come, further expressed by the gleam in her red irises. Her outfit was scant and form-fitting, a shiny, black leather thing in one piece, with matching, knee-high boots.

"Oh, ho, hoooo! Humans that have gone astray!" She crowed before passing her tongue over her lips.

[Mistress Guendolen]

Brenna gaped for a moment- and then muttered something under her breath that, while not quite distinguishable, was probably a curse of some kind. "Now you see why we need to get moving now?!" Then she tried to yank Holly away with all her strength, holding up the pick with her other hand in case whoever this was came after them.

[Chibi MitchellTF]

Lily keeps one hand on the machete. "Ma'am, we are leaving as we speak. We apologize for intruding, and simply wish to help our friend to leave. We did not realize this forest belonged to someone, though I had begun to suspect. My friend is...not well in some ways." She gestures to Holly, and makes the universal sign for 'crazy'.

[Mitera Nikkou]

(OOC: Just so you know, I'll be posting once every time all of you post once, but keep your actions within reason if any one of you make more than one post, since this faery is likely to react promptly and it wouldn't make sense if you make progressive actions that take you out of the forest without the faery doing anything. ^_^; )

[Stellar]

Holly turned around jerking her arms free. She stared at the woman for a moment baffled at what she was. "I haven't gone astray. These two may have, but I intend to know why this forest gives off such a bad feeling." Holly lowered her lanturn stepping to the side, still intent on heading to the left around the area the woman came from.

[Chibi MitchellTF]

Lily puts a hand on Holly's shoulder. "Holly, I don't mean to be mean, but I think we should leave NOW, before someone has to give a eulogy. Daniel would be sad if we were found vivisected."

[Stellar]

Holly quickly turned to the woman highly agictated by Lily, "Do you intend to harm or kill us?"