Lost (closed)
Strolling through the forest and glancing around, Sjin holds the map up at the sun, blocking it so he can shield his eyes and get a better view of what was ahead. A large hat on his head and a even bigger backpack on his back, it was hard to concentrate when there was so much stuff to do. They had a spot planned out, it had been for weeks, and yet Sjin couldn’t seem to find the willow tree that marked the spot where they would stay. It was hard enough to bring Lalna camping in the first place, much less when it involved walking for… how long had it been now? God if he knew, but it felt like hours.
With a sigh, Sjin gives up, folding up the map and looking around once more to see if he can spot a marker. The unknown territory gave him an unfamiliar sense of uneasiness, starting with a tightness in his chest that might be played off as the large backpack strap going around his chest being too tight.
He leans against a spruce tree and sighs, lifting up his hat to grimace at Lalna, trying to offer words of encouragement but finding none. He hands over the map to Lalna, not knowing he had been holding it upside down the entire time, and that they were far far away from their destination by now, help even further as far as he knew.
“Shit, uh, see if you can do anything better with this thing. We were supposed to arrive hours ago!”
( thefluxedscientist)
