"I don't mind."

(No)

Echo did so, and waited for Time to move Lyre over to her arms.

Echo was careful to not wake Lyre up. She smiled down at the sleeping monster.

"Follow."

Echo started in the direction again.

There was a long moment of great quietness.

It seemed that there would be quite a bit of walking for the two of them.

Echo thought for a moment.

"Uhhm, ten or fifteen more minutes, I think."

Echo as well kept silent, thinking as they walked. Since the sun was setting and the light was dimming, it was harder to tell that Echo was getting nervous, but she was most certainly getting nervous. Petting Lyre helped calm her a bit, but an anxious thought remained.

After some time, Echo squinted, then said, "I think we're close."

Turns out, it was a clearing, not an end to the forest. You really think I was going to make this easy? Heck no.

Echo sighed softly, "Oh."

"I don't know."

Echo looked around, trying to figure out which direction to go, and trying to figure out what to do.

Her siblings were going to be so worried...

Echo grimaced.

"...We need to find a way out of here."

Echo just shook her head, not wanting to speak now. She walked into the center of the clearing, then she slowly turned in a circle. She looked all around the clearing again.

"How would we start navigating?"

"It was... a bit around the middle of the sky, I think. Just about above us, a bit past noon. I assume it wod be the same for you too since you were around the entrance of the cave."