Wait, shit. He was doing it again.

............."*sigh*"

He was letting his emotions get the better of him. It's been happening more and more the longer he stays in this forest. He gets that probably most ponies in his situation would so the same, but this was life or death out here. He's been out here long enough to know when he's making a mistake.

So, his options are: stay here for possibly a few more nights and search the building, or leave and make more ground.

So, leaving. If he left he had the possibility of making it out of the forest or possibly find food/water. He highly doubted that he would make it out of the forest anytime soon judging by how long he's been here. The other option was staying for a few nights, exploring the castle to see whether there were any more things like the ones he just got.

He needed to think about this.

Ten minutes of INTENSE thinking later...

Well maybe his emotions were getting the better of him, because he was going to leave. The possibility of getting out of this forest quite strongly outweighed finding more goodies in a probably haunted castle. All he had to do was find the front door.

After a couple of minutes he found the front door of the castle, still looking just as old as the rest of the castle. Naturally he wasn't going to be able to open that one by hoof either and there were no visible holes around it so he went to the back door and went around the castle.

Upon arriving at the front of the castle he was greeted by the most cliche thing he had seen in his life, a rope bridge. Of course it was in front of a castle, of course it was. Regardless he had to get across it.

First step onto the thing and he could already feel it's age. There was three things he didn't like, heights were one of them, though he wasn't y'know, deathly afraid. The other two, well he doesn't like to talk about the other two. He takes a second step onto it and already he was afraid the thing was going to collapse under him. Then he took a third, forth, fifth, sixth, and so on on somewhere around the tenth he heard one of the steps crack under him. So naturally he stepped over that one. There was a few more on the bridge that definitely weren't walk-on-able so he just stepped over those. Until finally, he was on the other side.

Welp, let's get to a-walking.

Author's Note

Little short one today