Kayen and Sunny made their way through the forest, the smaller girl slipping through the trees with ease while Sunny, being much taller, was left struggling to push through.
"Hey, wait, can we take a break," he finally asked, bending over and resting his hands on his knees as he tried to regain his breathe. She stopped and turned to look back at him, her face blank. "I mean, I'm all for trekking through the forest, but its like fighting against a waterfall. Isn't there a path?"
"If there was, we'd be on it," she said. "I guess a break would be good." She didn't sit, though; while Sunny found a tree stump and plopped his butt down, she wandered around where they were. Sunny watched her curiously; certainly an interesting girl.
"Naega yeogie but-eoiss-eo mid-eul su eobs-eo," she murmured to herself in Korean. It was an old habit that she'd never been able to shake; while she spoke English rather well, Korean had been her first language, and her mind often worked in Korean when she wasn't talking to someone else. "Honja sup-eseo. Annyeong seulpeum!"
"I am right over here, you know," he called out, rather amused at her odd behavior. He figured she was a loner back in the real world. "Geuligo nan wanbyeoghage ihae." It was her turn to blush, and she turned her back to him to hide it. "What are you doing, anyways? Aren't you tired?"
"No," she said. "We stopped because of you."
"Right," Sunny said with a sheepish smile. "Well, I'm ready to go if you are."
"Okay, I think we should head-" she began, and then shut her mouth when she heard a scream. she looked at him for a moment, her eyes widening, then turned and began in the direction that the sound came from.
"Whoa, are you crazy," he asked, jumping forward and grabbing her arm to stop her. "Who knows what that was! Someone could be getting murdered."
"We should investigate. Maybe someone fell and needs help."
"Not with a scream like that."
"You're not very brave," she commented. Sunny could have taken offence, but the way she said it told him it was just an observation; she wasn't trying to be mean, or so it seemed. "Come on, we have to help."
"I don't think so," he said, not letting go of her arm. "Kayen, this could be suicide!" She gave him an odd look; he shrugged. "I'm not brave, remember? Look, I'm all for being the hero, but there's no telling what that was. We might not even be in our world anymore." She bit her lip, looking back in the direction that the scream had come from.
[[Kayen: I can't believe I'm stuck here. In the middle of a forest. Good Grief!
Sunny: And I understand you perfectly.]]