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"If it was a warning, I'm sure they would have done more." Dropping a dead prey in front of the group or feigning an attack would do more to make the group rethink going further. "I think it's likelier that we're being baited or that they were curious about our group. Is it common for people to go into the Forbidden Forest?"

Kon sniffed the air, trying to see if he could smell anything off. If he was lucky, he might be able to smell a scent similar to Aranea far away, though he wondered if he could differentiate it from the Aranea closest to him. It may be luckier if he smelled the scent of another creature entirely, then.
 

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As far as Kon could tell, the forest smelled...well, like the forest. The only oddity is that, compared to the other areas they had all walked through, the scent of any other creatures was very faint within the area. Likely there weren't that many that inhabited here.

The doppelganger, as Kon suspected, was almost impossible to differentiate from the Aranea he was standing with. However, there was something just a little off with the scent, something else that was faintly mingled with hers. He might not have recognised it at all if he didn't have the original to compare it to, but it did give him something to follow.
 
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Konpeitō was, admittedly, a bit off in his own world as he sniffed the air. He knew he needed to pay attention to everything around him, both in case something attacked or his teammates had something important to say, but he swore that with each sniff he was picking up new information. First he noticed that there was barely the smell of other creatures. Kon would have chalked that up to the mist if not for Aranea's smell being off. No, not Aranea's. He focused some more on the air around him before stopping.

As Kon thought through the information he received, he spoke out loud. "I wonder if we're in a new area. Like when someone accidentally travels into a fae court and enters a reality close to their original, but everything is off... Or it's the mist." He paused, realizing he hadn't explained what exactly he was talking about.

"When I smelled the air, all the animals I smelled earlier felt far away. Their smell is barely there now. There was also a smell similar to Aranea's. Very similar, but... I don't know how to describe it. Something wasn't right."
 

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Whoops. Angelo cringed at Aranea's comment, looking awfully embarrassed.

"Sorry," he said. "I was thinking more in terms of them being... I don't know, a reflection?" Rather than it being a whole person. Something not truly sapient, either way.

Kon's question was something he could at least answer.

"More common then it should be," he said. "Students who do it get in trouble, but we still see people heading out into the woods with surprising regularity. That said, this far in...? Not so much."

The speculation that they might be in an entirely new area sounded plausible to him.

"Maybe," he said. "Could be an actual fae court like Aranea. Maybe they... I don't know, send out dopplegangers of people they want to lure back?"
 

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Riley let out a nervous laugh. It was not because of the fact there was spooky mist all around and another Aranea stalking them but the comment about people going into the forbidden forest. It was something he was totally guilty of. "People aren't really supposed to go in the Forbidden Forest all willy nilly. I can't say much though because...I'm one of those people."

"I can safely say this mist was not a thing a few months ago or weird doppleganger reflection things." Not that he could recall anyway, he preeeetty sure he would have noticed weird mist and Riley Rivers 2.0 with as much times he has been in and out of here.
Though weird shit always happens in the forbidden forest, like probably accidentally walking into another world.

When Kon explained what he was smelling and the fact there aren't any animals nearby and Aranea 2.0 scent was a little off, he got an idea.
"Okay so you can tell her apart from the real Aranea which means you can probably track her."

"Can you see if anything else has a scent that's a little off? Like flowers?"
 
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