Walking, hooray.

Lots of fun.

They can speed up if she wants? Tyler can carry her again, keeping low, and Thario can speed up.

That works.

Then they do that!

… Relatively quickly, they will approach a waterfall! Somehow. Tyler's pretty sure the forest was rather flat for miles around, but apparently there is a cliff and a waterfall, which they are at the base of.

He relates this confusion to the others.

"Geography seems to be more guidelines than rules, in this place."

"Apparently so," he says.

Thario goes over to the pool at the base of the waterfall – there doesn't seem to be any stream away from it – and looks in.

"Doesn't seem to be anything in it?"

"And non-plant life is added on an ad-hoc basis."

"Plant-life seems pretty consistent, though, which is nice. Lots of forests."

"And that one wasteland."

"… Yeah."

"Perhaps the rule is that there are exceptions?"

"That sounds like an extremely unhelpful rule, but yeah."

Anything stand out about the waterfall, besides its sudden appearance? And is that ferret thing still around?

The ferret thing: is not still around! Apparently they left it back at the lake. Poor guy.

The waterfall does not seem super interesting! It does seem kinda dark behind it, though, and it's quite a tall cliff – maybe there's a weird cave!

"Might be a cave back there. Shall we check?"

"Yeah, sounds good," says Thario.

So Tyler flies them through the waterfall, temporarily diverting the water, and lo: there is a cave!

He puts Elleira down and goes to fetch Thario.

And what sort of cave is it? Damp, dry, dark, lit by mysteriously glowing fungi?

Well, it's slightly damp. Also relatively dark. There are in fact no mysteriously glowing fungi.

Mysteriously glowing rock upon which stands a creepy statue with wings, sure!

Tyler returns with Thario and looks at it flatly.

"I wonder who carved it?"

"I wonder who made all those buildings too, except I have a weird suspicion that no-one did and the world just is this way."

Thario goes up to the statue and looks like he's gonna poke it!

Will anyone stop him?

His keriol will jump off him.

Better something nasty happen to him than her.