An Old Friend - Part 1

"I wanted to see how you would solve this, but you were surprisingly cunning!"

"Way to go!"

The voice continuously echoed around them. The Arb elves were as surprised as the rest.

But they seemed surprised for something else. It was as if they recognized the loud voice somehow, especially the chieftain. He felt that the voice was too familiar.

While the voice echoed initially, it then became unidirectional.

They were able to easily tell the direction from which the voice came and thus, almost immediately turned their heads towards the south – the direction opposite to the one the dwarves took to exit.

Since it was a forest and there were abundant tall trees, sunlight failed to easily reach every part of it. Because of that, the interior of the forest still succumbed to darkness for quite some time.

And precisely due to that, the person's face couldn't be seen easily. Yes, it was only seen when he approached all of them.