38 Chapter 37) Night under the Mountains.

They spent the night in the Heaven of Hanging Rocks area. Well, not all of them actually.

"Where are you going to?" Festus asked when Kye started ambling away at a slow steady pace.

For a moment, Xavier thought that the Earth Affinity mystic would not reply to such a question and would simply continue on his way. How wrong he was.

Kye turned around and fixed Festus with those intense dark eyes.

"I'll meet you along the way." And he was off again to vanish through the darkened cluster of trees.

Festus scoffed in frustration. "That wasn't much of a reply. It wasn't even a reply at all. That Kye is going to make me clop him on the head one of this days. Trust me, his snakes don't scare me at all." He shuddered thoughtfully. "I just don't like them appearing inside my shoes."

"I don't like snakes either." Xavier offered. He wasn't normally one to indulge in small talk, and so found the experience anxious.