18. A steep hill

There were only 3 days left until the grand festival. The gang wasn't long away from arriving at Éthié town.

"Sooo tell me about this uhh festival thingy!!" : Reyes said when sitting on Orchids back.

"We celebrate the life the forest gives us and welcomes a new uh what's it called, ah yes right season. "

"We celebrate the welcoming of a new season and the life the Éthérée forest gives us! ": Orchid says, trying to sound smart.

Reyes looks at Eliza for confirmation. The pixie was sitting between Orchids' both ears on the top of her head.

She moves her head up and down confirming the facts.

"Where is the gnome with colors in his beard?" : Reyes asks.

"He is somewhere up in the trees. At our speed he can find us, or else we will meet at our destination. " : Uda answers.

Uda Yami was walking next to Orchid. Their long luscious black ebony hair was flowing in the wind

" REYREY COME UP HERE!!" : Eliza suddenly screamed with her high pitched voice.

Orchid had stopped just before going downhill down a steep hill. Reyes jumped up from The unicorns back up on her head. Nowadays he had gotten used to the body of a frog. Jumping, standing, moving, basically everything.

"Aight, what do you want me to see, stupid pixie?": he says.

"Look Look!!" : Eliza full of energy was pointing forward past the steep down hill and over the treetops.

"Can you see the funky treetops??!!"

"That's our destination!!!": she said with her high pitched voice.

"Alright, si, si!"

"Just stop, you are throwing pixie dust all over me!" : Reyes says.

"Oh- OH, OH MY GOD I'M SO SORRY REYREY!!"

"Sun is setting." : Reyes heard a manly voice from the side. He turned his head and saw Bluebeard with his pink beard sitting on a tree branch looking out at the forest below them.

"Bluebeard is right!": Eliza says.

"It's getting late!"

"We should rest for tomorrow until we reach our destination!" : Eliza says, her high pitched pixie voice was keeping Reyes awake but he could feel his eyes slowly falling down.

Last thing he saw was Eliza smiling at him and saying "Looks like that little frog was tired.".

He thought to himself :*somehow her voice sounds normal and not high pitched*. And then the dark void took his body, dragging it down into the darkness.

The voice in the void said to him : "Remember my child " Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. "

("Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent"~quote by Isaac Asimov, book Foundation series)