The morning dawned fair and clear, or atleast as fair and clear as it could be in the dark forest. The faint light glowed through the thick tree branches, giving the clearing an ethereal look.
Gingitsune turned to Rayo, glad that he was finally alright, and smiled. "We're moving now, I think. It's morning, and there's no reason to stay here any longer."
The players left the house, the old woman had disappeared, and though a breakfast of misoshiru had been spread on the little table, they bypassed it quickly, remembering the events of last night.
The path had shifted it's course since they had left it, and was now headed west deeper into the forest. The sign next to it was completely blank, offering no riddle or word of advice.
They started along down the path into what seemed like an ever growing darkness, Gingitsune's keen violet eyes spotted something strange in the distance. It was something glowing white, and yet it wasn't any sort of light. It was an enormous spider's web. The lair of the beast, and it lay straight ahead of them.
There was a soft shuffling sound behind her, and Gingitsune quickly turned around, trying to pick out what had startled her, and suddenly noticed that the path that had been behind them had vanished. Instead there was a thick grove of trees, which looked as if it had been there the whole time, making soft noises in the gentle breeze.
The hairs on the back of Gingitsune's neck prickled softly, and a shudder ran down her spine.
"I don't like this..." she whispered.
Suddenly something large came flying at Gingitsune, who ducked and rolled over to avoid it. Looking around she still saw nothing, except a swinging branch... heading once more at her.
"It's the trees!" she yelled, warning the others.
It was true, they were completely surrounded, the path was gone except for that small flickering of pale web light in the distance.
"We have to clear a path!" she said, ducking a tree branch only to be hit from behind by another.
Her teammates were all struggling with the same problem, the trees had stealthily closed in, and were now a close packed wall. The trees had to be destroyed, before all of them were pulverized by the powerful branches...
(there Rayo, see? I promised that I would post today, maybe a little late- but it's still today!

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