It was midnight, and Christoph could no longer stand not at the very least trying to have open communication with Alariyanah. He returned to the clearing that he was forced to vacate earlier, looked around the area, and immediately his vision reverted back to the past. A small smile fell across his lips as he thought about when he first met her. Christoph stopped short of the edge of the woods where he sensed Alariyanah might be. Taking a deep and admittedly nervous breath, he mentally prepared himself for the aggression to come and took a step past the forest line and entered the dense woods of Crescent. He walked around for a while and realized how closely the forest resembled the one in which he and Alariyanah had first kindled their love toward one another. The distance of the trees