Avoid the forest, got it. She wasn't really the type to go in there on her lonesome anyway. That all sounded far more worrying than she had expected, but she wasn't going to accept that as a potential ending.

"If that's true then we won't let it be our fate."

She hadn't been granted a second chance at life to become a two-dimensional NPC that'd end up as an undead or a snowman. Of course, her last attempt at defying her fate hadn't gone so well, but even then she had been able to break the rules of her world. Of course that begged the question of what the "spell" was in nature, if it even existed. She placed a hand on his shoulder and tried smiling reassuringly.

Even though she wasn't reassured at all herself, but heh. She's good at pretending.

"If there's a spell, it can be broken. Maybe we can even restore them to their former self."