Uncharted lands

Thorn’s paw goes through the wood, causing him to lose his balance.  Surprisingly his foot manages not to get injured from breaking through though as he’s helped across he does feel a bit of pain along his ribs.  Being scruffed and shoved like he was still some rookie kid was a bit embarrassing but he certainly wasn’t going to complain that the stranger just saved his life.

Looking back to the bridge he turns his head to the black wolf, “Thank you,” Thorn humbly offers.  A slight nod in grateful respect and he turns to see what comes next.  Following the path, he stops when once again lava gets in the way of moving on.  This time he needed to make smarter plans or at least move better so that he didn’t end up needing to be saved.

Bridge or stones?  The bridge was straight without needing to jump but then it also came into question of stability and quite frankly he felt done with bridges.  Thorn was confident in his stride and timing and boulders don’t easily break or fall apart.  He was about to leap when he paused to look back and try to soak all of this into his memory.  Later he wanted to put all of this on paper though he doubted it would be very useful.  Thorn had no idea how he would ever find this place again after all.

After Thorn was confident he could remember where he’d been Thorn swung his focus back to his path.  Time to go.  Thorn leaped to the first boulder and continued on towards his goal of the other side.

Choosing strength – across the stones

"Thorn Carpathius"