Jesslyn was a sweet girl, but she also had a lot of fire in her. Leena hoped that her brother was faring well. The priestess would hate for the young maiden to have to suffer the loss of someone so close.
Jess kept up a pretty constant set of chatter about random things, which suited Leena just fine, but several times a shadow would seem to pass behind Jess' eyes and the young girl would reflect for a moment before starting up another string of conversation.
All at once a healer rushed into the room startling the two ladies.
"Lady Jesslyn, I was sent to fetch you. You're brother's here."
At the beginning of the sentence Jess had looked worried, but at the end she gave a small whoop and quickly followed the healer out of the small room.
Leena smiled at the vanished girl and sat down on a bed to rest her feet and mind.
~*~
None of the wild men seemed to be following her specifically, though a few scouts had been sent out. Lanaey had heard them, but none came in her vision so she felt no compulsion to go and dispatch them.
As she neared the village Gorath came out of the trees on her right. He had been hiden till only a moment before, but Lanaey wasn't startled by his sudden appearance.
"It seems we got it off clean," Lanaey said to Gorath's backward glance.
He nodded but didn't say anything. Lanaey was fine with that and kept it till they had almost reached town when she spoke again.
"How's Cartil?" she didn't want to go in and disturb any reunions the fighter might be having. In fact, Lanaey didn't feel like really being with people at all for the moment.
"He'll live and fight again," Gorath glanced at Lanaey who nodded in reply.
The two mutually stopped near a house, still by themselves yet close enough if trouble started.
Lanaey didn't know if the dark Elf wanted to talk or if he was trying to decide on where to go next.
She spoke the first thing that came to her mind, wanting to talk for some reason that she didn't know of. "Where will you go when all this is through?"
He didn't look at her at first, but turned when he finally answered, "Home."
Lanaey didn't respond and they stood in silence for several more minutes bordering on a quarter of a hour.
"And you?" Gorath said.
Lanaey reflected for a moment before saying quietly, "I don't know."
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