Aiden watched the boy, waiting for any signs that he may need to yet again offer some reassurance then cast the Memory Charm AGAIN. The way his eyes lost focused was the first good sign. Something had certainly happened. With any luck it was the boy's memory going out the door and not some other important brain function.

The faintest grimace appeared on his face when the boy asked about the chocolate. He remembered that....? But not everything else....? What an arbitrary piece of information to hold on to. If nothing else, it spoke to a somewhat botched memory charm. While it worked, it did not seem to work entirely.

The boy willed himself to focus on the task at hand. He would berate himself for this slight shortcoming once they were no longer in this creepy forest but for now, he put on his widest smile. "You bet I did. Once we get out of here, I will have the hugest bar of chocolate you have ever since. Buddy are you gonna love it." It would be regular chocolate made bigger with a charm but the boy did not need to know that. The important thing was that he got him out, so on and on he walked.

His resolve to leave was so strong that he put aside all frightful noises around them. The crunching of twigs beneath his feet did not bother him. All of his thoughts were focused on finding the exit.

It should have been somewhere around here, yeah?