7
The first orange and pink rays already stained the sky when Kane and I woke. We kissed once before getting up, then we were all business. We packed, ate something, and I changed my torn thermal shirt for another one. Then, we kept on with our quest: to find a mythical fire flower.
As we hiked through the forest, one thing I realized was that the tug in our chests was stronger now, but the pain that had assaulted us before was almost nonexistent. We both hadn’t felt it for a few hours now, and the last time it had come, it had been milder than before, much easier to endure.
I hoped that meant we were getting close to this fire flower. I wanted to go back to our family and friends—I was worried about them. A lot of things could happen in the twenty hours we had been gone, and a lot more
