After their stay at the spring, the beastfolk had an easier time through the Dark Forest. It seemed like someone was helping them and redirecting the rogue creatures away from their path. It did not take them another day to reach the bottom of the hill that leads to the abandoned castle. All of them stood in awe at the shadow of the building that loomed above them. Some of the beastfolk only heard of the castle and never actually saw it.

Now they stand in a daze as they look at every spire, at every inch of the outer wall, and at the grand keep that stands higher than...