"Yeah, this just seals the Gods damned deal for me... this place can piss off and be wiped off the map for all I care! I don't want to be here any longer than I have to and I want to start building my dream home in the middle of a pretty forest where I can walk to civilization maybe half an hour to an hour away!"
My own voice was helping to guide me through the forest as I walked in a straight line, the noise it made catching on the trees around me and helping me discover something very, very important.
Something that Draka and I missed thanks to our terrified silence during the initial foray into the forest; there were definitely a LOT of trees - I mean, it was a forest after all - but some of them were definitely... not just trees.
Maybe it had to do with me being on my own at the moment, but some of them were just not staying where I had last seen them, and they were definitely not catching my voice like the others were.