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"At the edge of the world," Tedrin said as the group stood at the edge of the forest. With the valley of death behind them, Anya relaxed and asked him, "What did you say..."
"What?" Tedrin said, as if he'd been in a trance. He shook off the fuzz and said, "Oh, I said 'at the edge of the world'."
"Why would you say that..."
"Well, because the first documented exploration of the Halimar Wilds was done by an excursion team hundreds of years ago. The leader and coordinator of the trip was known as Barton Greenwich. It was documented that when they arrived, he'd said that they were at the edge of the world. It's ironic, because he was the same man that said that you could take a voyage from the east coast of our lands and arrive at the west coast, suggesting that the world we live in is a giant sphere. Some believed that you could only go so far before you simply...fell off the edge of the world. he hadn't meant anything of the shape of the world at all. He'd simply been commenting on our need to explore. For Greenwich and his group, they were truly at the edge of what they'd seen. They were at the precipice, ready to cross into unknown territory..."
Anya smiled and looked toward the treeline. "Well, okay... Let's do Greenwich justice..."

The forest was dank, dark, musty. The trees were thick and tall but their branches curved down low, creating a very low ceiling of foliage. Creatures alerted their kind of intruders but it was nearly impossible to know where the snarls, whistles and warbles were coming from. There were eyes catching faint light in the distance. Tedrin slowed his pace as twigs snapped beneath his boot. He drew his long sword and the others drew their weapons as well. Anya drew an arrow back and lined up her sight with the arrow as a shadow passed in front of the group. Tedrin stopped, raising his weapon in front of himself and he told the others, "Keep your eyes open..."
Anya watched the woods with keen eyes, waiting for movement but nothing happened. She lowered the bow but kept the arrow in place as Tedrin stood erect and surveyed the darkness. A quick flutter in the darkness caused Anya to return her weapon to the ready and release the arrow. Then, it was quite. She'd pinned something to a tree and it was still slithering. Tedrin moved forward and set his blade aflame in order to see and he laughed as he realized what Anya had done. "You've...killed a big...bad..." he said and moved out of the way, "squirrel... Anya, what did this thing do to you? This is why the El'Dren hate us. We kill everything..."
Anya gave Tedrin a middle finger and he laughed before saying, "Okay, now, everyone spread out and look for anything out of the ordinary. El'Dren weapons, bodies, arrows in trees, blood trails... Let's get to it..."

(I tried to create a poll so we could all vote on what to find to change the story direction (but i couldn't) So, I'll put one here.
Just reply to the message after reading it. The path with the most votes gets used. I won't wait forever for replies.