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"....." Adym was silent as well for a moment.

"...I slept." he said.

"I got enough to function and move on." he told her.

"That's all the matters." he reasoned.

"Anyway, let's not hang around here for TOO long." he continued.

"We still have plenty of ground to put behind us."

"....." Adym was silent as he saw the approaching figure.

"...Callie?" he asked.

"Callie, you all right?" he asked her.

'...where did she go?' he wondered.

'...and WHY...?' he asked himself further.

"Something up?" he then inquired.

He bit his lip slightly, and feared what the answer may be.

Adym, meanwhile, didn't sleep much at all.

He felt too guilty.

He felt like this was his fault. Callie was overwhelmed, on the verge of most likely freaking out, and there was nothing he could do about it. Surely he could have acted more quickly when getting her away from Vyran?

There had to have been a way to have stopped this from happening.

He just leaned against the wall of the cave, dimmed the mushroom lights down, brought his knees up to his chest, and buried his face in them, not really caring if sleep overtook him.

It did, eventually...

And the little creatures all slept in Callie's quiver... except for the small one that decided to nest near her head.

"Ah, Callie?" Adym said.

"You don't have to sleep on the ground." he told her.

She then felt something beside her, and when she looked, she saw a large green broad flat-leaf there.

"You can sleep on that." he said.

"It'll be soft and comfortable." he told her.

"Also, I'll build a fire to keep us warm during the night." he added.

"Lost?" Adym asked.

"...no, I don't think we're lost." he said.

"I have a rough idea where we are." he told her.

"When we leave the cave, we'll need to head west." he continued.

"But we're on track." he assured her.

'...I think.' he added mentally.

'Pretty sure the forest may be trying to actively throw us off trail...'

"......." again, Adym was silent.

'...I see.' he thought.

'Suppose it... makes sense.' he lamented.

"And I can only grow what I know hoe to grow." he told her.

"Which is to say, if we required some food, I can only grow things that I'm aware of, that make for good food." he said further.

"Also, the environment is a factor." he went on.

"I can't grow something that requires a dry environment in a wet one."

Adym raised an eyebrow for a moment.

'...huh.' he thought.

'Sometimes I'm not sure WHAT to think, now...' he mumbled mentally.

"I'm... special. Unique." he then answered her.

"I was born with unique abilities, and I am... very closely tied to nature." he pseudo-explained.

"Hence, I can do things like this." he reasoned.

"There are limits, of course, but nature is essentially my playground." he added with a light laugh.

"....same." he mumbled.

"I don't feel hungry. Or thirsty. But I need to eat and drink." he said.

"......" he was then silent, before placing a hand on the ground.

As he did so, a plant started to grow... and it grew into a bowl-like shape, it's petals opening up and revealing several strange things that looked almost like fruit.

"It's a rare plant that I can grow." he told her.

"Each colour fruit has a different taste, texture, etc." he continued.

"Feel free to try whatever you want."

"You will." Ryker responded.

"And I know it's not going to be easy." he said.

"But damn it all to hell, we've worked too hard and gotten too far for it to end like this." he told him.

"I refuse to go down without a fight." he went on.

"We can do this." he continued.

"Just believe, Eke." he finished, as Aly came back with what he'd requested.

"...." Adym was silent as he saw this, and sighed.

'...I'm sorry, Calysta...' he thought.

He felt like a failure right now.

She had lost most of her memory of who she was, and he didn't know how to get it back. Or if it could even be brought back in the first place.

'I have to keep her safe.' he told himself, before going and sitting down.

"Hey." he said.

"Want something to eat or drink?" he asked her.

She was alone with her thoughts for about 3 minutes, before one of the animals came out and sniffed her again... the runty one, once more. It sniffed close to her, before slowly climbing up onto her leg.

It then got up on its hind legs, and sniffed her again.

After a few seconds of that, it went back on all fours and just... stayed there.

It looked like it was getting comfy, too.

Adym looked at the quiver, and smirked.

"Yes, they like enclosed spaces like that." he said.

"...right." he then muttered.

"I'm going to see if there's anything right close that can help us." he told her.

"We're obviously going to be bunkered up in this cave for the night, if you want to change into your nighttime wear, now might be the time to." he suggested, before getting up.

"I'll be back in 5 minutes." he finished, before heading off, outside.

Adym just sighed.

"I understand." he replied.

He then looked around, before leaning against the wall, as they heard the rain outside...

...which suddenly sounded like a storm.

"Wow." Adym muttered.

"That came outta nowhere." he said.

"Like, holy crap."

The creatures responded to this by immediately scurrying into the quiver.

And a few minutes later, Adym returned.

"All right." he replied.

"We're good for the night." he told her.

"Are you hungry?" he asked.

"Or thirsty or anything?" he asked further.

"...or would you rather be alone for a bit?"