ElfQuest Fan Art

They search and Search but cannot find anything that seems to be of harm to them... Toad lowers his blade a little and gasps...

"damn this humid air... making me sweat..."

He starts taking off his winter clothes, revealing his blonde straight cut hair, and nose that is majestically funny looking, there is something similarity in it's build with lions nose, he also is clearly older than the others, having wrinkles that many of them do not have... his lips are also a bit more on the puffier side...

"much better..."

He neatly packs his winter clothes over his arm... looks at Antaka...

"should we head back, Norah Huntress? or is there something you'd would like to check still?..."

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"Not really certain, no" Antaka answers from the other side of the cave she has reached by now. "There have been dreams and the fact alone of a forest underground is suspense. Two of us had dreamed similar things so that could have meant something, we thought."
She parts the fern with her spear and looks at the ground for holes or signs of a hiding place. "Better safe than sorry." She adds and bows down to the moss and touches it. It's wet and soft. Strange grass she thinks. She don't know any of the plants. Some seem similar to ones she knows but she was not even able to guess if they are eatable.

"maybe... Or Else I could have sensed it... Large cavern like that could not have gone un noticed by me otherwise..."

Wander states and takes the broth bowl from Laluna... Then he looks at Laluna with his milky eyes...

"thank you... You... Do you also think I'm am hiding something from you?.. I am not... But I doubt I can make you believe me In that..."

Wander gently touches Laluna's arm...

"thank you... For helping me..."

Wander walks slowly to his throne and sits down exhausted...

Laluna stops her cooking for a moment when Toad's sending reaches them.

"Seems like a wonderful place! Now I really hope that it will be safe... it would be easier to find herbs, too."

She then gives some steaming broth to Wander.

"It's curious how you haven't sensed that place before. Maybe it's hidden with magic somehow?" she wonders.

Toad bows to Antaka's compliments, the looks at the cavern again... Nothing was lured to them despite Toad's nice singing... Toad slowly heads down near the water while keeping his guard up...

"Are we certain there is something here? Nothing has appeared to threaten us yet..."

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Moondrop walks by the side off the lake, untill She finds herself near a tall, old pine forest... Squirrels have awaken and climb all over the trees, some bark and pines drop silently to the snow near Moondrop, it is so peaceful and quiet...

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Moondrop breaks the ice on the lake and takes a drink, splashing some of the cold water on her face. For a minute she just sits, enjoying the warmth of the sunlight.

She gets up and makes her way around the lake, pausing occasionally to add useful plants she recognizes to her pouch.

Antaka starres at Toad and starts to laugh. Than stops and listen too, looks around.
"Good boy you can sing!" she praises, still giggling. "Nice voice, Sir Toad!" She went a bit to the side to take another angle to look at the green before and around them. Scans the surrounding for something wired or some movement.

(I just assume he has a good singing voice)

Wander looks at the hole where Toad and Antaka went through...

"I Hope they Will be alright and that they get along..."

Wander lets out a tired sigh, then he looks at Laluna...

"Yes, thank you..."

Wander walks to Laluna and stands near her, he the gets amazed by what Toad send...

"A fully lush cavern below the tower??... How haven't I sensed something like that?..."

Laluna is anxious when Toad and Antaka go underground. She wants to go with them, but she understands that she must stay safe as the healer of the tribe. She guesses that Moondrop must've gone to get some space outside.

"I hope they will be alright..." she says to Wander.

To make herself calm down, she decides to warm up some of the broth she made earlier. Keeping her hands busy has always helped her cope with stress.

"Are you hungry? There's plenty of broth if you want some." she looks at Wander.

Toad looks around and says...

"I do feel we are not the Best at sneaking In a terrain as this, you are from the deserts and I am from wintery wastelands... So noise it is, my good Norah Huntress..."

With that, Toad clears his throat and suddenly starts to sing loud enough for anything In the cavern to hear...

"At the time of the pollen
With gifts spring brought
O Comrades Who've fallen
Comrades Who fought
News so sullen
Make your lady distraught
For you Comrades befallen
I help your lady aloft"

Then he stops singing and listens to the surroundings, nothing, not a sound apart from the softa roar of the waterfall...