After the sudden guests settled in his hut, Elder Ileas immediately warned that he was not going to let them do it just like that.
Since the man has long refused material benefits by becoming a hermit, he decided to take payment in another way. From time to time, he entrusted them with some household chores, on which he himself did not want to waste his strength.
And today the healer ordered to bring him firewood for the boiler, in which he would cook another medicinal decoction. Elsa and Maxie, in any case, could not argue with him for a long time. Since everyone was pursuing their own interests, they had to stay on this mountain as long as possible.
Therefore, immediately after a meager breakfast, they had to move into the forest.
The girls still did not like each other's company, so without prying eyes, they did not even try to build a kind of «friendship» out of themselves. They intended to split up as soon as they entered the wilderness.
