3) Misty Moonlight

Misty Moonlight

Still breathing heavily, we all finally manage to catch our breaths and calm down a bit. Astoria is doing her best to calm Müsli, who still is heavily upset and scared. His patchwork markings are by now really mushed and the lines are quite blurred. I look down on my own body, and my drawn on skeleton is still nicely visible, although it also is blurred in some places. I look up, between the orange tree crowns the moon is now nicely visible, covering us all in a white-ish light that makes everything look even more mysterious. Khaos came trotting over to me, saying "I checked the surroundings. No sign of wolves anymore." Namir flicked his tail and sniffed the frozen ground. "Can someone please do me the favor and explain to me where we are?" He asked, quite unsure looking. I sighed, looking at Astoria who continued to be focused on Müsli, who now finally looked calmer, sniffing the ground and nibbling on some bushes. "It's so.. creepy here. It's so silent, as if no animals are living around here. I wonder how we should find back home," said Arctic slowly. I sigh, pawing at the cold ground. The moonlight shined bright, the barks of the trees were nearly white, the same shade as Astoria, making her blend in perfectly with her surroundings. She lifted her head, looking over to me and then Arctic. "I don't know where we are and how we got here, but we should not rest for long. It seems like the moon is still standing as high as earlier when the wild hunt started, so I recon the time will not start to pass faster if we stay here." Astoria noted. We all nod, and Namir answered "You guys's forest is creepy." "This is not our forest. We are somewhere we shouldn't be, and we most definitly are in trouble" I answer coldly, looking over at Khaos munching up a frozen leaf who just nods. Arctic sighed, saying "Lets go, this ONE time I'm going to agree with Astoria, we really should go I think." Looking over to Astoria I see her big grin over the mini triumph, before she's nudging Müsli to get moving. Namir, sighing and looking like he is regretting everything, is looking up at the moon again, possibly a bit nervous about the "not moving comment" from a minute ago. "Let's go guys, enough of a break" I say, with the group slowly starting to follow on my path. The moonlight brightens the forest, and reflects on the ice crystals boarding the grass under our hooves. Slowly it starts snowing, which Astoria and Namir comment very unhappily. I roll my eyes, cold never mattered to me that much. I look over at Khaos, who's eyes were reflecting the bright full moon, which made him look incredibly creepy under his black hood. It seems like he had rubbed his neck on a tree which made the hood fall back onto his ears. Arctic shook himself and sneezed, making him look quite funny with the smoke coming off of his body and out of his nose. Slowly mist rose up between the trees, making it all look very white and surreal. Namir started a slot trot, overtaking me slowly. "I do not like this mist, it makes it look.. creepy" Müsli whimpered, which led Arctic to comment "Creepier than before?!" Astoria had to laugh slightly, trying to hide the laugh with her long flowly mane, which was just as white as the moonlight. Trotting through the misty moonlight felt somewhat like a scene from a fantasy movie, just some knights and shiny armor was missing. Looking down, I couldn't even see Khaos' legs trotting over the frozen ground anymore. Out of the corner of my eye I was able to see my legs with their glow in the dark skeleton drawn on, working elegantly through the mist. Arctic shook again, swirling up the mist, making it glow and sparkle in the moonlight. "I love mist" I say, my mind slowly calm enough to think about what happened again. Astoria, who seemed to linger at a similar spot in her thoughts, started speaking again. "I think the most logical thing we can do is, to move forward till we leave the forest. And then surely we will see something reminding us about where we are." Namir sneared, mumbeling something that could be interpreted like "I really really hope you guys know your way outside the forest better than inside of it." I shared a quite judging side eye with Arctic and Khaos, but we collectively decided that this is no time nor place to argue with a scared visitor. Astoria sighed, slowly picking up her trot and the moonlight reflected on her bright fur. Khaos next to me looked over our group, he always had felt like he had to be the strong one. Arctic next to us nearly took Müsli out with his long tail, with Müsli nearly slipping on the frozen grass trying to not get hit by Arctis's tail. No matter the surreal experience we all share, I had to admit it was quite funny. I hid my smile and suddendly the mist dissapeared, the forest cleared up and we slowly fell into a walk, holding our breath and looking around on the wide open field in front of us.