"I wasn't kidding about soul-eating death forests," Sunny said, as straight-faced as someone could be making that statement. "Properly it's called the Nightrunner Forest, but it's basically West Africa's Wyldwood. My friends and I knew there was someone waiting for us because Anatov wasn't awful enough not to give preteens an objective, but we still had to get there. In this world sometimes you're just not going to get help until you prove that you're strong."