at long last, the answer to "Why didn't Zhenshay have the purple bedroom?"
(because Zhenshay's bedroom is Even MOAR purple)
Content warning for reference to violence and transphobia in the text.
Sometimes you have to accept that you don't have all the answers.
Or any of the answers.
so say, hypothetically, you already broke some of the enchanted forest's rules
what's the least bad thing to do next
at long last! backup has arrived
this will definitely not make the situation worse, right
Wherein Victory attempts to bring in a champion to fight (with words) on her behalf
@rowyn @Satsuma
I imagine that a path marked by humans making mundane blazes on trees (or ribbons or chalk or cairns or ...) would be fey-scrambled rapidly, and that assuming that none of the affected trees were sentient or magical or someone's favorite that attracted immediate hostile attention. Humans felling trees would make a somewhat more lasting path and almost certainly draw ire if not carefully assessed. House's meandering path may've been in part to avoid angering anyone.
@kelkyag @Satsuma Zhenshay: "House hadn't backtracked yet, so Valor was still between the two parts of it. Thus far, House has always backtracked to rejoin the rest of itself eventually. Sometimes only after Moon or I coax it into doing so. But there haven't been any separations of more than a few days."
Zhenshay: "Yet."
@Satsuma
Valor: "The briefing was *very clear* that Victory and I were not to blaze our own trail. No matter how thoroughly or wide we cut a path, or how well we marked it, it would not be a path through the Endless Forest."
Victory: "So I asked 'who can make a path, then? Because the paths don't make themselves, right? Or do they?'"
Victory: "The guy leading the briefing said 'not you' and 'stick to the paths on the map.'"