A Devil in the Dust

Hao Xuan couldn't help but repeat the words in a daze as if trying to recall a memory that had been lost to time.

"A forest with a white scar in the sky? And someone was inside it??"

"Un. Do all forests have them?"

"What? White scars in the sky or people living inside them? No to the first one for obvious reasons but..."

But Che Yun wasn't so quick to believe his words.

"Are you sure? Have you even seen a forest?" he asked with narrowed eyes full of doubts.

Which left Hao Xuan dumbfounded, "The hell kind of a question is that?? Of course I've seen a forest, who hasn't??"

"I haven't," the boy pointed at himself and then in the direction of the carriages, "I asked some of the guards before you came and they said the same thing. There is no forests here."

"Well- yeah, I guess..." Hao Xuan admitted his mistake, "That makes sense. I forgot you people have never left this damn wasteland so it's very much possible..."