Marty followed her troughout the forest. They were becoming deeper and deeper in the vegetation. He'd ask some question about her age and habits but she wouldn't answer him right away. She was speaking to herself, probably still thinking about what she had done in the pond. Marty also thought about what kind of education they had given to a princess that would screw a total stranger...but in the other hand she was a red-head, so wreckless behaviour would be expected.
The leapt around for almost an hour. She eventually stopped by a river and grabbed a palm tree and started to break some leaves and working around it. Meanwhile Marty also waited with her...there were some flies around and he took the chance to calm down his hunger. It was becoming more normal to eat bugs.
"So we are really away from the tourists"
"We don't like that humans see us that much"
"What about the lady that gave me that coin..."
"I could talk to you about that, but I'm leaving it to the priest, he'll know more and will be able to answer your questions!"
Marty nodded.
"So...if you are a princess why were you so far from your kingdom? Shouldn't you be escorted or something?"
"I don't like escorts" she answered sounding abit annoyed like a sleepy child.
Soon she ended whatever she was doing and it revealed to be a skirt for him.
"Nudity that expressed is not so well permitted in the Ponde" she said giving it to Marty. He put the skirt around his waste and thanked, he was actually adapting about having his balls touching the rocks and trees, but that way was indeed mor civilized.
"So who are you guys exactly?" he asked when they departed once again to leap on rocks and plants.
"We are the frog people, we live in the island. This is our home. Before the humans arrived and took down half of it."
"WHy don't you fight them?"
"We used to in the ancient times, but then there was a treason with the Spirits of the Jungle" she answered very calmly. All of that sounded so confusing in his head.
He followed her trough a lake, swum across it to a waterfall. Vatraca used her tongue to wrap around a tree branch, she used it to lift her up and threw herself agaisnt the water disappearing. Marty's jaw dropped with awe.
"I don't know if I can do it...Vatraca? Vatraca, are you there?"
He tried once. But his tongue didn't reach the branch.
"Focus, Marty!"
He leapt in the air,shot his tongue which successfully wrapped aorund the branched and threw himself against the water. He expected a cave or something similar, but instead he felt his body tingling and saw a light. On the other side he was projected out of a similar waterfall into a small lake. Vatraca was on top of a rock looking back at him with a smile.
"Our magic portal is really cool!"
"Yeah! I guess...". He still feelt weird form the tingling sensation. They got out of the lake, snaked around the leaves and arrived at a tiny clay cliff. Down there there was a marshland were a wooden circular fence stood up. Inside there it was: the Pond, the werefrog village. Marty could see a tower, wooden bulding with more than three stories, and the streets were all water.
"Welcome, to the Pond" she said with pride. "Listen, don't even dare telling people what we did back there. It was an insane moment, understood? I'll have you killed."
Marty swallowed dry and nodded.