> Puff out our cheeks. "Well if you don't want your hat I'll take it."
> Follow and follow.
> Kouyoshi smirks. "You already had your chance to wear it, didn't you?"
> You follow Kouyoshi into the trees. The walk, for the most part, is uneventful: the trees catch most of the rain before it can reach you and Kouyoshi here, and there aren't many mushrooms here to look at or salvage. The longer you walk, the more the ground slopes, and eventually it gives way to flat ground again. For a while, the forest scenery stays relatively the same.
> Eventually the rain stops entirely, perhaps because the canopy above has become so dense that it even blocks out the sunlight. You hear a bird screeching somewhere.
> "Looks like the outskirts of the Forest of Magic to me." Kouyoshi surveys her surroundings, not even slowing her pace.
> _
