Why is it Forbidden?

"Maybe it would be better if I carried this thing..."

Chee would find herself lifted up off the ground by the backpack itself, righted, and set back down on her feet. Orion had been the one to make the noise, and it was he who had picked Chee back up. Lifting her and the backpack one-handed was easy for him, and he gave the two sisters a kind smile as he offered to take the pack himself.

Resting on his shoulder was the Dwarven pick axe thing they had found last time they had gone adventuring, down in the Underground. With it, he hoped that their current excursion would turn up even more interesting artifacts for him to study and keep.

"Hello, by the way. Sorry to sneak up on you two like that."

The Forbidden Forest had always been an area of interest for Orion. The place seemed liked any other woodland area, but there was always this rumor or that whispering about magical goings-on within. Now he was far from scared to go into, but he lacked a proper guide to get him around in it or tell him what was of interest and what was just regular forest stuff. Hopefully the sisters would fulfill that role for him.

"So do we have a plan of attack, or are we just wandering for now?"

Orion just had to roll his eyes at Dori's innuendo, and the general way the sisters squabbled and fought. They were a certainly a pair of characters, and perhaps the very thing that inspired the trope of bickering siblings. They grappled and fought in such a way that it was extremely difficult to discern if they actually meant each other harm, or if it was the kind of play fighting that wolf and lion cubs engaged in. Chee's headlock looked quite real. But then again, professional wrestling was a thing that existed, so maybe Orion was just out-of-the-loop regarding fake fighting.

It was good to hear that the two of them were on the same curious wavelength as Orion. Though there were times a location or a person earned an undeserved and ill-fitting name, most of the time the name actually meant something and alluded to a known fact. Throughout history, this proved especially true for more foreboding names, including the actual word "Forbidden".

"Well, I suppose when no one is poking around the area, no one is going to be taking anything back. So more for us to find."

Taking the map in his hand, and planting his axe in the ground upright, Orion unfolded the paper and gave it a good look over. He wondered how the actual map maker could have such knowledge of the area.

"Very nice, girls. Very nice. If this place follows any of the same magic rules that I know of, then the good stuff should be in the middle, right? And there might be a chance of some kind of "get turned around and lost" spell in effect somewhere..."

Orion had been busy going over as much of the map as he could while he listened to the sisters explain their situation in greater detail. For a while, he was almost completely hidden from their view by the unfolded map as he held it up to get better light on it or a better angle. But he heard everything they said. When he lowered the map, he was smiling back at them while folding it back into a more manageable size.

"Sometimes discovery requires taking a few risks. I'm not worried about breakin' a few rules here and there for science."

He handed it back and hefted his axe back on his shoulder.

"Now then! We're off! To adventure!"

With an exaggerated stride, Orion began marching off into the wood. As excited as he was, though, he still kept an ear and an eye out for anything interesting, or dangerous. There was no doubt that there was a lot to find in the forest, but he had no idea what it would like when and if he found it.

His eye caught his axe again, and he held it out in front of him like a divining rod.

"You said this thing... glows when it senses something valuable, right? Do I need to turn it on or something?"

Even during Chee's explanation, Orion was waving the Trailbreaker this way and that like he was trying to get a signal for a cellphone in an area with weak reception. He pointed it upwards. He pointed it at a tree and then a shrub. He tried making little symbols and movements in the air like it was a wand. But it was all in the service of science. Each silly movement was a test to see if he could get a reaction, any kind of reaction.

Just for humor's sake, he held it out to Dori as well.

"Uhp. I think I saw a glow. Maybe."

The Trailbreaker did not glow. Smiling at his little joke, Orion turned back to leading the way with the head of the axe at the front of their group.

The forest quickly became thick and dense with brush and foliage. Orion was having some difficulty moving through it all, and he had to resort to using the Trailbreaker to cut a branch here and there when it was not plausible to bend it out of the way. The tool proved to be just as capable of cutting debris as any other sharp axe, though that was possibly due to its never-dull enchantment, or whatever it was called.

"Oh. Oh! Check it out! I think it's glowing! For real!"

He was not joking this time around. During one of Orion's swings he had noticed the head pulse slightly with blue light. Surprised, he tried to get it to pulse again. It took a few adjustments, but eventually he got it to glow lightly while he held it out.

"That way!"

Rose a short orange haired girl who is the daughter of a pure blood vampire and a high ranked demon, has to keep "it" a secret from everyone at school, the only one who knows is the head master so he made the forest forbidden, sometimes students wonder in here to see what makes it forbidden. Usually i either bring them off the trail to the heart or i scare them, how would i know this would be my toughest case yet.

About to set out to get the stuff for dinner rose's super sensitive hearing heard a light beeping off into the distance. Rose jumped in a tree and went to the sound by the time she got there the three explorers were already pretty deep into the forest. She jumped onto a loose branch that was in ear shoot of the students. As she jumped onto the branch it broke and there was a loud bang as she hit the ground.

Owww, that hurt

Rose sat underneath the tree, she was surprisingly tired, but it was no doubt after her little sister threw a fit after rose took in a new girl.