Chapter 13.4

With their rest period up and plan assured, the initial steps out to the river path were quiet for now.

Around them, the natural wall of the trees that broke off to the riverbanks, teeming in wild grass and flowers before shifting to a rocky edge were the river split through the earth, lapping at the edges of the shore or rushing past the scant boulders that jutted through the riverbed. Natural trails lined both sides of the river, formed from years of natural patterns from beasts coming and going to drink their fill, and more than a few bone remnants marked ends of the shoreline as well. The leftover markings of predators and scavengers.

“Still a bit too quiet, huh?” Sellen mumbled a bit as she scanned around, her head array shifting around. “Makes sense the herbivores would’ve run off to hide. Wonder if any scavengers are gonna pop out to look for something.”