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The others agreed with their prince and we left the brighter lights of the city. The sun was still setting on the horizon and though the forest was preparing for night and getting dark, there was plenty of light to see by.
The pines thickened quickly and the beauty of the trees from the view of the city became harder to appreciate when the dense forest made it hard to see very far in front of us.
We walked for fifteen minutes, give or take.
“I think that’s far enough. Nothing here,” Charlie said in his gruff voice.
“Please, just a little farther. Five more minutes at most and then I’ll give in,” I said. I didn’t even look behind me. I pressed on, chasing my gut as the feeling of being right seemed just within reach. Something was just within reach at least.
I stumbled forward, coming out into a small clearing in the woods.
While there wasn’t a sound, like it was abandoned, suddenly I stumbled across tents, so many tents. More than I could count and all marked with the same symbol. It reminded me of the tent villages outside the town of one of my foster homes where a large group of homeless had amassed in their own little community.
“A group of homeless?” I said, turning to look at the others.
Their grim faces were hard, and every one of their hands rested on weapons at their sides.
“No, Cora,” Noah said, pulling me behind him as he spoke. “You see that symbol?”
I nodded.
“That’s the Seelie crest,” he explained. “These are Seelie army tents. Hundreds of them.”
