A piece of the staff was in their possession, they would be meeting up with the others soon enough, and then they would be on their way back to Macula.
Things seemed to be going their way and then the Berserker tripped over a vine spread in front of them, and threw the staff piece away. Cole was caught off-guard when Kryschenn suddenly fell and began yelling for him to escape her then-unidentified attacker. Quickly looking for a threat he was surprised by what had caused her to fall. Cole watched in fascinated amazement as she unsheathed her sword and readied herself to attack the ivy that entangled her feet. His attention focused on Kryschenn as she struggled to get out of her predicament, Cole didn’t catch the location that the staff piece landed after she so zealously tossed away.
"Um..." Lowering her sword in embarrassment, she looked somewhat miffed at the perfectly ordinary, perfectly innocent vine that she had tripped over. Finally, she swung her sword up again and, with a heartfelt roar, savagely hacked off the vine as close to its base as she could reach. "Got to watch out for that stuff, it's deadly," she explained, grinning up at Cole as she sheathed her sword.
“Well, that’s one vine that won’t be bothering us again,” Cole replied with a good-humored smirk at Kryschenn. He then looked to the general direction she flung the staff piece. They would be needing it, as well as the rest of the staff pieces, to prevent Venger from taking over the kingdom of Yarfell. “So… that was one of the pieces of the staff we’re meant to reassemble that you just threw over there,” Cole said pointing to the area where it likely would have landed. Recalling the escape from Venger’s fortress in the Black Hills, he remembered their success in retrieving another of the staff components. “Once we get it back we’ll have two pieces of the staff. Wait, Kimmy still has the orb on her, right?” he wondered. He didn’t have the opportunity to ask as she, the Drummer Bard, and Izzy departed once he woke up in the stream tunnel.
“C'mon, Krys! Let's go get that piece. Here, let me help you up,” he said a little enthusiastically, as he extend his hands to Kryschenn as she was sitting on the forest floor.
