[As Lazuli said, eventually he has to split off to go handle his own thing, which leaves the six of them unattended... But with how pressing things are, surely they can keep on task? Right? Or at the very least they're curious enough about the Forest of Dreams to keep heading forward.
As they fly further towards the forest, eventually they find themselves drifting downwards, slowly losing elevation. Even if they try to tilt their brooms back upwards, they find themselves unable to, as if they're too weak to fight whatever it is dragging themselves down. Eventually, their ability to sustain flight at all vanishes, but they're low enough by then their crash to the ground isn't as devastating as it could be. They'll only suffer a few minor bumps and bruises, but they should be well enough protected between their charms and magic to stave off even that much.
Seems they'll have to go the rest of the way on foot, but the forest isn't that far. The tree line is just a few dozen yards away, and they can already see that something is wrong with the forest. Even if most of them have not visited the forest, it's readily apparent that something terrible has happened. The Forest of Dreams is known for being as beautiful as it is deadly, with vibrant leaves and glimmering crystals making it somewhere bright and colorful, a stark difference to much of the North, but the forest they're approaching is... dark, in a literal sense, and as they get closer it becomes clear that the forest has started to wither away, leaving behind trees that are faded and dead.
To Comet, who had seen the effects of the moon fragment in the fields of the South, it should look familiar, even if they can't sense the same ominous presence... Which makes it all the stranger, then. What could have caused something like this happened?]
ENTERING THE FOREST...?
As they fly further towards the forest, eventually they find themselves drifting downwards, slowly losing elevation. Even if they try to tilt their brooms back upwards, they find themselves unable to, as if they're too weak to fight whatever it is dragging themselves down. Eventually, their ability to sustain flight at all vanishes, but they're low enough by then their crash to the ground isn't as devastating as it could be. They'll only suffer a few minor bumps and bruises, but they should be well enough protected between their charms and magic to stave off even that much.
Seems they'll have to go the rest of the way on foot, but the forest isn't that far. The tree line is just a few dozen yards away, and they can already see that something is wrong with the forest. Even if most of them have not visited the forest, it's readily apparent that something terrible has happened. The Forest of Dreams is known for being as beautiful as it is deadly, with vibrant leaves and glimmering crystals making it somewhere bright and colorful, a stark difference to much of the North, but the forest they're approaching is... dark, in a literal sense, and as they get closer it becomes clear that the forest has started to wither away, leaving behind trees that are faded and dead.
To Comet, who had seen the effects of the moon fragment in the fields of the South, it should look familiar, even if they can't sense the same ominous presence... Which makes it all the stranger, then. What could have caused something like this happened?]