Daphne had to walk quickly to keep pace with Lily at first. She couldn't fathom how her friend could still move so quickly considering how hungry they both were. They'd been walking for hours on top of that and she felt the first wave of exhaustion creeping into her body.

As they walked, the path turned from dirt to flat stones that looked white in the fading sunlight. There wasn't much space between them, but they didn't exactly touch either. As she walked double time to keep up, she saw that their path was going to curve around a thick tree.

"Look, Lily!" she huffed, "we must be really close!"