A Gorgeous White || bts_taegi_fanfic ||

❄️|| Chapter 41: Deep Into The Woods ||❄️

Chapter 41: Deep Into The Woods

It has been four days since Yoongi had left his family's manor. For the first two days, he was quite unsettled as he kept missing his parent's morning greetings and Jimin's gentle nagging. A day later, he learned to accept and adapt. He had to live with Mochi nibbling on his fingers out of boredom.

They traveled further, passing through valleys, vast plains, a few farmlands, and making a few stops on the way. They entered Loren city, the city farther than Faerim, and somehow Hoseok refused to stay for a day there, he insisted to keep going. Yoongi was curious about why but he immediately kept all the questions to himself when he saw Hoseok's uneasy expression.

Their group finally left the city and they continued to move overnight and entered the known 'Sunset woods".

The orange leaves crunched under the hooves of horses and the turning wheels of the carriages. Yoongi enthusiastically dragged a chair by the carriage window and sat there with wonder in his eyes. The sea of orange trees stretched as far as the eyes could see. If the Snow Flower Seas of Zenin were like high wave-like hills then the landscape of the Sunset woods was as flat as the edge of a table. The trees were like firm giant pillars and a cloud of orange leaves sits at the top. It was so high that Yoongi had to stick his face on the window and bulge his eyes out to peek at the top of the glass window.

Seeing this, Hoseok was amused and could not help but blurt out, "If you're so curious about some trees then you can just ask your big brother"

Yoongi's head whipped to face him. His eyes sparkling, "Can we stop a bit to look, elder brother?"

Facing his brother's eager eyes pleading at him, he cleared his throat and looked away. His face turning red unknowably. "W-we needed a break anyway."

Moments later, Yoongi grabbed a satchel and he burst out of the carriage door with Mochi jumping after him. Don't blame him for acting all so childish, he just had to see the humungous towering trees! He had never seen anything like it.

If Yoongi was to personally describe it he would say it was so skyscraping tall that it was maddening. He could vaguely see the leaves outline overhead, they were like a flock of orange clouds in the sky giving the forest a very sunset-like color. Even the ground wasn't spared, it was covered with large orange leave, the size of his head. His silver-eyed looked ahead and he very wished to venture deeper. Mochi's eyes weren't the least bit eager.

"Yoongi" Hoseok called out from behind him, a warning in his tone. "Do not stray from the carriages."

Yoongi turned to look at him. It seems Hoseok was serious about not letting him out of his sight. His shoulders slacked in disappointment, "Okay..."

Hoseok glanced at him after he dismissed the coachman in front of him. He wasn't blind to not be able to see his brother's face as it sank in despondency. Truly, he didn't mean to derive Yoongi of his excitement, he just wanted him to be safe and well under his watch. Therefore, he sighed in surrender.

The second young master gestured his two guards to watch Yoongi before he walked towards Yoongi. "You can explore but stay within the path. Don't go too far and do not stray from the guards." He took Yoongi's right hand and clasped a silver band with a green gem embedded into it.

Yoongi blinked at the bracelet around his wrist and could not help but snort. Of course, he knew this was a tracking device. He swallowed his disbelief and thanked his brother before walking off to the treeless path.

Mochi suddenly scurried ahead of his master leaving Yoongi a few meters behind. Yoongi was muttering curses about being treated as a little kept child. He glanced at the band around his wrist and decided to ignore it.