Kalina watched the empty sky for a few more seconds. The air up there wasn't safe either.
The forest started about two hundred meters past the last burned house. Everything between the tree line and the village was scorched flat which Eren explained was actually safer now because the dragon's fire had scared all the dangerous creatures away from this area.
"The whole forest is afraid to come close so the outer ring is basically a dead zone." He led her across the ash field toward a line of low bushes where something small and blue was moving.
It was a slime. About the size of a small dog and translucent blue with no eyes or face or anything recognizable. It moved by sliding across the ground with a wet sound that made Kalina's skin crawl.
Three more slimes were oozing between the rocks nearby and behind them two rabbits with fur that shimmered like it had been dipped in liquid moonlight sat watching everything with an intensity that felt too smart for rabbits.
