The Hero's party had assumed that they could easily move on from Athenia, but turns out there was a reason why nobody could, not unless they had the galls to smash horrors like toothpicks. Coming to the very same realization, Raven felt for once, powerless, like no matter how much he raced his mind, however good his plans were, there were some things in the world that you can never be prepared for.
Wandering deeper and deeper away from the camp, he kept searching for Mino with only one eye. His fae vision helped him see through the dark, but having lost an eye, he was sluggish with every movement. At first, he'd attempted to race through the forest, but bumping into trees from near his blind spot he decided just to walk.
"Mino?" Finally coming to a clearing, he looked around and found the Minotaur girl sitting at a riverbank. Her knees folded close to her chest, she mindlessly gazed into the water with a pile of fish resting right beside her.