After some time laughing at Lesser, it didn't take some time to ask about what Lee and Mary families were like. Mary was the first to speak.
"Like Adam, I am also from a legacy clan. My sister is the next head, but my mother doesn't let her have the clan yet. My father is often out working. My mother is the head and she is feared in the clan for some reason, no one has told me why."
She paused, and took a long breath. Annoyance leaving with her voice as she spoke.
"My sister is already a master, and the biggest pest of my life. She finds one reason or another to bother me with. Making me fight her as a modane, to read my books, to leave her things in my room or taking my things and leaving them everywhere at home. AAAAH, She doesn't even live at home now and she still does it."
Adam just laugh at this, Lee just nodded with her, and Lesser couldn't relate.
"Do you guys know what she did when I was finally infected with the nightmare spell? She laughed and left, only to give me her old memory after I cleared it. It was the kindest thing she did, but she then told me it was just a joke. I didn't give it back."
They listen to her talking, as Adam was laughing at her tale of her family life. Then it was time for Lee to speak.
"I am the oldest of my siblings. My mother was a farmer and so was my dad, no one in my family was awake. So when I survived my first nightmare they were still worried. But my siblings were amazed by my powers. But as a family, we were close, me, my four younger sisters and my younger brother."
As he said that Adam and Mary cuffed, Lesser looked at him with surprise. It wasn't normal for a family to have many children, after the dark time and under the time of the nightmare spell.
"So I understand Mery in some way, by having four sisters, they all were a mess to live with, and my younger brother was the one picked on the must by our family."
Lee then told them of all the things his sister did. Some time, the group laughed with him, and some of the aggro with each other, but it was clear, it lifted up their spirits, and let out their pelt up feelings.
Lesser stood up and looked left at the forest, then up, he couldn't see the sky under all the trees and the web. Unknown how long it would take for them to leave or how long they would be there. Lesser turn back to the cohort.
"So what is the plan now, leader?"
Lee turn to him.
"After our memories are done restoring themself, we continue to go the way we were walking, and find the best island to take, hoping we can find a gate way on it."
Lee then increased the volume of his voice and raised his hand up and turned it into a fist.
"AND NO MATTER WHAT CREATURE STANDS IN OUR WAY, WE WILL GET BACK HOME!"
The cohort was looking at him, the silence stood there, even the Moth turned to him. The silence was making Lee worried, by why no one was speaking. But that silence was broken by Lesser.
"You know that making that pose doesn't make it cool. Second, as the shortest of us, it is somewhat more embarrassing to see a nude man doing that pose."
Lee looks at him, then turns to Adam, then down. All guys in the cohort were nude at this moment, and Mary was the only one with some clothes on. And Mary was having a blank face, like she wasn't impressed with what she was seeing. Lee looked at her, dropping his hand down, in embarrassment.
"So Mary how come–"
"It's easy, I like girls. And looking at guys nude is normal for me, thanks to all the books my sister has lying around."
The silence was back, and now it was more awkward than before.
***
The strings in memorise were weird to look at, how was someone even meant to read them. Lesser didn't know, but he was trying, with no success. Instead of stressing over them, he began to weave the Spider strings again. But as time went, the light in the forest just disappeared.
With how this area was like, it was confusing when they needed to sleep or eat, because of how the day time was moving. One "day"was three days in total, two days of sunlight and one for the night. So when Lesser was trying to weave, the sun dropped, leaving them total darkness in the forest.
Now sitting in complete darkness of the forest, it felt colder and louder. Adam and Lee were sitting by the campfire making some food, but the flame was gone. One second it was there then the next second it was gone. Adam summoned his torch. The silver spark formed, it let some light in before it shaped into the [Undaying Flame]. Its flame didn't die, but it did drop in its light quantity. Looking around, they didn't see anything, but Mary took Lee's hand and dragged him along to Lesser.
Lesser turn to look at her, eyes meet, Lesser try to ask her, only to stop. All of them stop moving, a giant roar echoes around the forest. It wasn't one creature that roared.
Turning to look at the moth, it looks ready for combat.
Lesser ran to the [Tears of Home], Mary and Lee followed, Adam was slower to move, but he was the closest to it. So when Lesser got to it and opened it, he felt the wind sift, and a giant dark spear pierce the ground.
The Moth moves, attacking the spear.
Lesser jumped into the [Tears of Home], it was mostly full but he did make room if they needed to hide in it.
Landing on the soft feathers, he waited, then came Lee, landing on the meat, after that was Mary, who then landed on Lesser.
Adam was looking at the long dark spear ,and realised what it was, it was the leg of a giant spider. Then another leg landed closer to the moth and Adam. Now seeing how close it was, he then jumped into the [Tears of Home], landing on the logs. Mary, Lee and Lesser look at him. Looking at them, he spoke.
"That spear wasn't a spear, but a giant Spider. Probably the one of the Awakened Tyrant of the spiders."
"So it came to fight the moth then?"
Lesser ask, not liking what Adam had said. Adam looked at him, shaking his head.
"Wrong, it only was walking backward, and happened to land where we were."
Looking at each other, it was clear what it implied. That giant spider/ the Awakened Tyrant was fighting another Awakened Tyrant, and had fallen back or had been pushed here, to where they had rested.
Looking around, Lesser realised he had forgotten the strings. He looked up and then froze, he then dismissed his echos. It was lucky that no of them had been destroyed yet, looking around and seeing that the feathers were glowing.
"So the glow, huh."
"It looks like it… so if you feed that echo this, will his string glow to?"
Mary said, wondering what it would look like.
"Maybe, but it seems like they only glow in the dark, meaning you can't wear it in the dark here."
Adam spoke, also interested. Lesser began to move to the entrance. Looking back, he spoke.
"So… I'm going out and picking my strings, and then running the fastest I can, right? hahaha."
He was looking at them, his laughter slowly dying. He was the owner of this moving chest, and he couldn't transfer it to someone else, without dismissing it. But he couldn't when someone was in it, so it needed him to be the one to move away. As the smallest of them and having the must fill core there, he was the best choice they had. Sighing, he left the [Tears of Home].
Looking out, he saw four dark spears, no four long dark legs of the giant spider, no moth in sight. Then he turned and saw two long red legs of the other giant spider, but it wasn't the only two, there were three. The last one was silver in color.
He looked up, then dropped his head back in.
"Three. There are three of them fighting."
They all look at him, Lee summons his flag and then sticks it out of the chest opening, Mary and Adam just up their thumbs at him. Sighing one more time, Lesser left.
He ran to the strings where he had seen them, they were fine and safe. He ran, the three spiders Tyrant had not noticed him yet, but their followers, the army of spiders did. But they were still further away, so he had time to get there and throw the string down the chest and run again. Before the first spiders attack him. But as the tyrants were trying to kill each other, the spider groups attacked each other, at the same time trying to attack him at the same time. So it turned into chaos everywhere.
One silver spider attacked him, only to be stabbed by a black spider, and then the black one was eaten by a red spider, or reverse. Lesser couldn't see right, as the pain from the attack was still landing on him, but as Lee's healing flag was healing him it didn't take the pain away. And he wasn't wearing any armor, either. It didn't matter, it didn't defend him so when either.
So he ran, avoiding the attack or just attacking the one that was attacking him. But as the chaos of the other spiders around him increased, it was getting easier to run through them, but he didn't get many kills.
Slowly he was getting out of there. An attack came from his left, he dodged by somersaulting forward and then getting up to his leg, continued to run, no looking back at the attacker, he knew what happened to it, Annalee had told him as she was guiding him as best as she could.
Avoiding one of the legs of the defeating Tyrant. He saw that it was blocking his path, but it was the only spider there, it was the safest way to go.
'Damit!'