Lucy hasn't been to one of these particular dreams before, so she was pretty baffled at first to meet a rather large swan. It had calmly introduced itself - himself as Helaku, and Lucy had decided to take him for his word, considering there are rather more pressing matters.

Namely being that the location they're in seems decidedly hostile. She hasn't seen or heard anything out to get them, but she feels like someone or something definitely is, and Helaku does too. She knows swans can be pretty vicious, but probably not enough to ward off what or who might be lurking in these woods.

So the best course of action seems to be to start moving. Even if there's nothing out there, they can't very well stay here, in the middle of nowhere. It feels pretty strange with a swan as her companion, but somehow not unnatural, and given it's a talking swan, well, better just go with it. Better to stick together.

Helaku can keep a pretty decent speed, it turns out, though it's a little awkward-looking when he's on land, and sadly there doesn't seem to be any rivers nearby. She can still walk quicker than him, but even if she ran, she's pretty sure he'd be quicker if he took wing. They haven't tasted that theory, though.

"Hello?" Lucy calls out at random intervals, deciding the chance of coming across someone who can help is more to hope for than the risk of something unfriendly hearing them.