The trip took days.
You crossed forests, rivers, and valleys. At night you built fires and talked about what you needed to become stronger.
Lake kept his cloak wrapped tightly around himself to hide the cursed suit Naomi forced onto him. He refused to wear the mask, but the curse wouldn't let him remove the rest of it.
"Soon as we get stronger," Lake muttered one night, "I'm breaking this curse."
Oliver leaned back against a tree.
"Step one," he said, adjusting the pink suit jacket. "Get stronger than Naomi."
Lake glared at him.
"Step two," he added, "I take my suit back."