Hi Forever,
Mailice here with a short review!
You get off to a good start with your first paragraph by revealing some details, and you've structured it well too. However, this structure is increasingly lost towards the end of this first paragraph, because you move on a bit faster than before.
It was the forest, the same forest which had once signified the end of her human life.
You make it sound like it's been half a lifetime since Cehyn has been down there, but really it should be hours at most days. Because later you describe it in more detail and then it seems a bit strange here, the way you described it.
Eliza's blonde hair was brown in mud. It thrust against Cehyn's hands. Cehyn could feel Eliza's face, it was as cold and senseless.
You could rewrite it a bit here so it doesn't seem so halting, like "Cehyn noticed Eliza's blonde hair, brown in mud, when it thrusted against her hands."
In general, it was a good chapter. You paced it well and increased the tension through some of the descriptions and always kept it at a good level. I liked how you described Ceyhn as very compassionate and concerned and how little she cared for herself the whole time she set out to save Eliza.
The rescue itself - which was the goal of the action - seemed a bit short in contrast and I think you could expand on that a bit more. But you could also see very well that something was going on and that Eliza couldn't really recognise who Ceyhn was. Did she forget her or did she hit her head somewhere. I liked that fact that Ceyhn realised that something was wrong.
I am now curious whether Ceyhn really goes back to the Gropies afterwards, as she promised, or whether she stays with Eliza now. I think you did a very good job of setting up by introducing Eliza and the Gropies and then creating a split where it becomes clear what Ceyhn really wants and how she wants to find out. I'm very fond of that set-up, also because it shows a bit of the moral side of the story.
Have fun writing!
Mailice
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