"Hopefully." Adam replied.

"One usually does." he said.

"But this is new territory." he commented.

"A guardian's never needed to be killed before." he told her.

"Just... yeah, this is all just... new." he sighed.

"All we can do is... hope."

"Yeah..." Adam muttered.

"We can't." he agreed.

He then looked back at the dead spider, and sighed.

"...I do hope it has found peace." he said.

They then continued to walk, until they noticed that the trees were getting a lot denser and clustered together.

"Geez." Adam mumbled.

"These trees are almost impossible to see between."

"It normally isn't." Adam replied.

"But there still seems to be a path." he commented.

"Let's... just follow it." he said.

"I mean, might as well keep moving forward." he reasoned.

"And we'll just have to be on alert at all times."

".......yep. I saw that, too." Adam replied.

"Looks like this path is cut off from us right now." he told her.

"I suppose we ought to-" he continued, as he turned around... only to see another wall of plants erupt from the ground, walling THAT part off.

"....NOT go this way." he mumbled.

"We MIGHT be in a maze now." he commented quietly.

Adam was silent for a moment, before he placed his hands on one of the walls.

He then closed his eyes, and seemed to be communicating with them... before large thorns spontaneously jutted out from the wall, sending him flying back, with cuts on his arms.

"....these are not sacred." he told her.

"They are corrupt and evil." he said.

"And the longer they stay here, the more damage they do to this sacred ground." he then reasoned.

"Callie, we have to get to the shrine... post-haste."

"I'll be fine." Adam replied.

"I was able to get a general fix on the direction of the shrine." he told her, gesturing to a part of the wall.

"Callie, we may need to just barge on through." he told her.

"Use your ice powers to make things brittle, and I can break through with some plants I can grow." he explained.

"I think we may be long past worrying about destruction of sacred ground." he then went on.

"We already killed the guardian, we may as well go all the way here."

Adam quickly retreated, and readied himself for something.

"Let me know if you need me." he said.

"I'm ready with vines to punch through the walls." he told her.

"That is, if it's necessary." he then added.

After that, he wrapped his arms around himself, and started to shiver slightly.

"Oh, man..." he mumbled.

"You are GOOD at making things cold."

Adam nodded.

"Right." he said.

With that, he balled his hand into a fist, and punched the ground. Instantly, thick vines shot out at an angle towards the frozen wall, shattering it into tiny shards.

"Let's go!" he told her.

"We'll barge straight on through, and get to the roots of this!"

".......Callie..." Adam muttered.

"Something's... off." he told her.

"More so than usual." he said.

"There's... the air is changing... somehow. I can't explain it." he continued, before narrowing his eyes.

"Be ready for anything."

"Ah!" Adam exclaimed, as he tried to grab her arm... but caught nothing but air.

"CALLIE!" he called down into the darkness... but only his echo answered.

"Callie, can you hear me!?" he asked.

"Hang on!" he said.

"I'm coming down!" he told her, as he started to grow a thick vine out of the ground nearby.