4 Los (2/2)

Ivan felt something was suspicious going on so he made sure to be on guard against Christian but he didn't want to make him become alert.

As they continued through the cave they noticed that there haven't been any other passages.

It was just one straight path.

if that was so it felt like they should have reached the other side of the mountain by now. Christian felt that there should have been a fight in order for the treasure of this cave to be protected but there was nothing.

No guards were found and only a continuous straight path.

Because of this the group's position became much looser as most of the children started talking due to the intensity of the situation being lowered. Or could be due to their short attention?

Christian tried to warn them about the potential danger but without anything to prove of potential danger he couldn't stop them slightly relaxing.

He at least made sure to pay strict attention towards how they ate.

Rather than eating all at once in a certain interval it's much safer to slowly eat bits of the food throughout the whole journey to be prepared for anything.

Walking and walking there was still no sight of anything that may cause interest. Cold hard rocks were still the materials of the walls and the red fire orbs were still lighting the area

Dean had no qualms but he fell into an awkward predicament as Rose would continue to mention that she is tired and all he could reply with was ”We'll be there soon”

It was the best reply instead of just saying ”Ok” but he had no idea how to continue that statement with any other phrase so he could only sigh at his difficult misfortune.

It truly did feel suspicious that they couldn't find anything new or that this seemed like an endless path.

Ivan saw through this and so to make sure he kept track he pulled out a small blade that was made out of normal metal and wasn't to special. Discreetly he marked the walls with certain marks in order to not affect his groups mentality.

Although that is what he thought he had to break the news.

Turning towards the group caused them to momentarily stop as Ivan could finally break the news ”Guys...we may be walking in circles”

Pointing towards his marks he said ”After a little while I have been marking the walls with designs beneath the fire orbs in the case that something is off and it seems what I imagined as the worst situation came true.”

”We've been walking around in circles. This could be a test in order to ward off those who can't even succeed the possible other tests.”

This made the group go into a state of panic but they still thought about solutions to this problem.

Breaking the news to them inadvertently led them to believe that Ivan had a much better grasp of the situation so they started telling them their ideas

Christian: ”Check the walls and fire orbs?”

Pierre: ”Break the walls?”

Anne: ”Find a foe?”

Dean: ”...”

Ayesha: ”Hmm....”

Rose: ”Find a key?”

Dean couldn't think of much but he was subtly surprised as Ayesha in a low tone hummed. He looked around but noticed that not even Christian paid attention despite being next to each other, most likely caught up in finding a solution.

Ivan saw how his friends suddenly told him ideas so he sighed and had to somehow propel himself to think of something.

He wanted nothing more than to just point out an observation but he now became like a strategist for the group.

Sighing he scanned through the ideas.