Nothing Built can Last Forever... But Your Imagination can

Episode 4: A Block and a Hard Place. Chapter 3

Everyone stopped their horses, and turned to face Olivia.

Ivor: This isn't the time. Swamps are too dangerous. You never know what might be lurking around.

???: *Growl*

Petra: What was that?!

Soren: My stomach...

Y/n: G- *cough* guys, we can't turn back now. *Cough* *cough* Not after coming so far.

Petra: *Sigh* Well, we need to rest. I'm taking a break.

Olivia: Me too.

Soren: So am I.

You all then got off the horses, and began to rest. Meanwhile you stretched your legs, and Jesse spoke up.

Jesse: I'll look around... see what I can find out.

Ivor made his way towards Jesse.

Ivor: We mustn't linger long. The Far Lands are just beyond this swamp.

Soren: So this could be our last chance to find food?

Reuben: *Oink...*

Jesse looked at the group with an uncertain look. You sat down next to Reuben, and pet his head. Jesse looked towards her left, and saw some sort of crop growing on dirt with no water nearby.

Jesse: (What the? How did that get there?)

She looked back towards the group, and back towards the crop. Determined, Jesse began to make her way towards it hoping it could help.

*With you*

You were still petting Reuben, and stopped after a while when you had to cough. The others looked towards you with worried expressions.

Reuben: *Oink?*

Olivia: You okay, Y/n?

Y/n: *Cough* *cough* Somewhat... I just still can't believe we're going to the Far Lands.

Petra: Me neither... I've been to a lot of places before, but I never thought that the Far Lands would be one of them.

Olivia: You've heard of the Far Lands too, Petra?

Petra: Yup, a lot of people have heard of them, but not many people believed they exist.

Y/n: W- *cough* Why not?

Soren: That would be because nobody has tried to reach them, and if they have they most likely gave up after a long time looking.

Olivia: But it only took us three days to get here. Surely someone would've been looking for more than three days.

Soren: Yes, but we only made it here in three days because Ivor knew where we were going. Nearly no one knows where the nearest edge to the Far Lands are. So when someone ventures out in search of the Far Lands chances are that they begin to make their way towards the opposite direction of the nearest Far Land.

Y/n: (I guess that makes sense... no one really knows where the center of the world is... so if they're on the left side of the world they could end up making their way to the right to find the Far Lands when they could've just gone to the left, and find it sooner.) Well I gu- *cough* I guess we're some of the l- *cough* *cough* lucky ones then.

Soren: Lucky? We are anything, but lucky! The Far Lands are uninhabitable!

Y/n: And ye- *cough* and yet Ivor managed to build a house there, and- *cough* live in them. *Cough* *cough*