Chronicles of Eden - Act V by Alexander Gordon Page B

not going to cause trouble,” Luna huffed while crossing her arms. Falla merely groaned while holding a hand over her face.
    Daniel smiled weakly at them then looked to Alyssa with a shrug, the witch holding in her giggle as she looked ahead again.
    “Daniel?” Triska said as she poked her head out from behind the curtain. “Pip’s not waking up, what should we do?”
    “She’s probably exhausted after using so much magic earlier,” he reasoned with a shrug. “Just let her rest for now, that’s all we can do.”
    “I still can’t believe she brought us all the way to Flairwood like that,” Triska said looking ahead at the approaching grove. “It’s almost too good to be true.”
    “She really came through for us,” Daniel agreed with a nod. “When she wakes up we’ll have to thank her for all her hard work.”
    “What about Kroanette?” Alyssa asked glancing to them. “She was going to take us to see the centaur empress, and now she’s two days behind us.”
    “Well,” Daniel pondered. “I suppose all we can do is try to win over the monarch of Flairwood, then we start making our way back and hope to meet up with her along the way. If we’re both traveling towards each other we should meet up eventually.”
    “You do realize this is Kroanette we’re talking about, right?” Triska reminded him. “She has absolutely no sense of direction. We’ll be heading back towards where we were and she’ll likely be racing off in some other random direction in search of us.”
    “We might never see her again,” Alyssa sighed.
    “She knows where Flairwood is,” Daniel defended. “She insisted she knew how to get here quicker than even Falla did.”
    “And the reason why we didn’t listen to her is because she’s Kroanette,” Alyssa quipped. “Remember when we tried taking one of her ‘shortcuts’ yesterday? We traveled in circles for four hours before we resumed our normal route.”
    “She got lost in the woods when we stopped for a rest break,” Triska mentioned. “We were right next to the one and only hill, and she couldn’t find us for an hour.”
    “She can get turned around from time to time,” Daniel reluctantly agreed.
    “Yep, never seeing her again,” Triska flatly said before going back into the cabin. Daniel sighed and looked down shaking his head while Alyssa glanced over to the side at the passing trees, both remaining silent as they wondered if Kroanette could indeed find her way back to them.
    “Is Kroanette coming too?” Luna asked. Daniel and Alyssa looked up to see Luna leaning over the edge of the roof while watching them curiously. “When is she getting here? I wanted to show her my home.”
    “She might not be coming,” Alyssa answered. “We’ll be lucky to find her after we leave Flairwood.”
    “All we can do is hope she knows how to get here,” Daniel reasoned. “We’ll meet up with her after we’re done in Flairwood. I hope.”
    “Is she going to be alright out there on her own?” Luna asked worriedly.
    “Of course she will,” Daniel reassured her. “She’s used to traveling alone anyway, she’ll be just fine until we find her again. I’m sure she’s keeping a level head and remaining under control like always.”
    *****
    “WAAAH!” Kroanette cried out as she galloped along the road in a panic. “Where are they? What happened to them? Where do I go now? WAAAH!”
    The centaur quickly raced along the dirt road, frantically searching all over for any sign of her friends or their caravan. She raced off the beaten path and weaved through a wooded area before charging through some bushes onto another grassy trail leading downhill towards a river.
    “Daniel? Daniel!” she called out desperately. “Triska! Squeak! Alyssa! Anyone! Where are you?”
    Running blindly along the path she kept looking all around her, seeing only passing trees and shrubbery as her galloping hooves echoed out in the wilderness. As she ran down the hillside and along