>"You shouldn't try to so hard not to enjoy yourself, you know?"
>"I'm not," she quickly replies.
>Onwards
>"Well, here we go, I guess. Where we end up, who the hell knows."
>Mokou leads onward into the forest, again. Or as much as she can lead with you holding arms. Rumia skips along besides you. As far as you can tell, nothing about the forest here seems any different than all of the woods you've already covered. Bamboo and more bamboo. It all pretty much looks the same to you, anyway, aside from the couple markers that Mokou had taught you, but there were mostly near her place. Outside of those, you'd have no idea if you were on top of Eientei, or back at the entrance. About the only difference you can tell, is that Mokou takes more pauses to examine the woods around her, and no longer seems quite as sure of her bearings.
>"Ok," she says after a few minutes, "we were going east this whole time, but I'm pretty sure we're almost due north of where we started, now."