The journey back to Glistern was a silent one, Gray had a lot of things on his mind and Tesse wasn't one to talk unless asked to. Apart from the occasional purr of boredom from the cub, there wasn't much sound within the forest either. Whatever wildlife existed here seemed to have been chased away by the elven settlers.
{I'm getting hungry,} Gray thought to himself, feeling wheezy from blood withdrawal. He accessed the map in his inventory, looking over the trail to check whether they were any settlements close by.
{Hmm, the closest settlement is a bit off the path, it'll add another day to our journey if we make the detour,} he realized, seeing that it would take half a day to ride there, and another half to get back on route. Though he didn't want to spend a minute more than he had to in the elven forest, he knew that if he continued this way he might not make it back to Glistern with his mind still intact.