here we see are trees... trees... and uh more trees!

Fuji would be sad to see her sister go, so when she had called the expedition, the smallest of their litter had made a point of coming along. She wasn't so set on adventure as her siblings seemed to be, and still thought she had more to learn of healing and fighting before striking out on her own. That and Hage made interesting company. She kinda liked that he was almost as small as she was too.

As Rheum asked them to note the terrain, of course she took in the trees and the stormy skies, the earthy, musty smell that permeated the air. But she also took note of the softness of the soil under her paws, and the lingering steaminess of air trapped under the canopy. “It always seems a bit wetter here, in the air, like the wind can't quite break through and clear it away like out in the bay. And if you get lost in here, there's no stars to find your way out. We'd need to organise markers, but it's probably worth making them different than the ones we use in the bamboo.” It was a bit easier to slip in here undetected after all, the thick, clattering walls of greenery didn't allow for much stealth unless you knew where you were going.

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