If Belle had a watch with her, she would have truly realized she had wandered around the forest for more than two hours now without finding the path Farrah had marked on the map she handed her. From the marked path on the map, she was to follow a straight path and that would lead her just out of the forest and into the next town, and she would take a coache to Mr. Andrew's inn to meet Jamie.
It had seemed easy when Farrah helped her analyze everything, and she had been confident about stepping into a forest she had heard from Rav could be dangerous, as no one knew what sort of animals lurked in the woods. The sky had turned completely dark, and if it weren't for the lamp in her hand, she would have been plunged in utter darkness with no way of seeing where she was going.
