The rumbling in the valley continued for a long time before finally dying down.
The armored Titan Giant stood in the small square at the edge of the camp. The boys and girls stood on the giants' shoulders, arms, and heads, gazing at the incredible changes in the distance. The daylight shone upon them with the warmth of awakening from a dream.
The smaller children gathered around the giants' feet, watching the horizon with wide-eyed wonder.
Clouds were spreading over from the distance—clouds that had never existed in this valley, drenched in the glow of the sunset.
Little Red Riding Hood and Rapunzel stood together on Thunder Titans' shoulder. From this height, they could see very, very far.
They could even see the dense forest on the other side of the valley, a forest that seemed to have "grown" in the blink of an eye, replacing a vast stretch of the original mountain terrain.
The buzzing of a drone came from high above. Little Red Riding Hood looked up and saw the drone Dorothy had secretly sent out earlier returning. Before long, another Titan Giant beside them raised an arm, and Dorothy came trotting over from the shoulder of the giant "next door," her face glowing with excitement. "Hey! Red! It really is your Black Forest! I saw the cottage—but it looks like there are some other things in the forest now, too. Springs and flower fields and stuff. It looks much prettier than before..."
"Yu Sheng said not to approach places that are still changing." Little Red Riding Hood frowned and reminded her instinctively, "He said they might be dangerous."
"Oh, come on! I sent the drone, not myself!" Dorothy laughed happily. "I'll send another one to look at that tower in the north later..."
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