[Arien]

Carmalita sighed as she pulled the she- elf’s horse off the path.

“Ok, ok, calm down….” she said, but she didn’t think the elf had heard her.

There was no need to speak to her so roughly, she could have asked kindly it wouldn't have killed her. She now held tightly on to the horse along with her own. Maybe it was not such a good idea to come. She kept getting suspicious looks from some of the company as if the knew something about her and she did not like it. She adjusted the strap of her bag as she allowed the two horses to graze at the side of the road. Carmalita had packed all she needed to take. Her medicines, her sword was at her side and her daggers beneath her clothes. She had remembered as she left the house what her mother had said to her.

“Why are you taking weapons, you only go to collect supplies!” she had smiled and looked straight into Carnalita’s eyes. She had a strange feeling that her mother knew what was going on.

“I have to be safe, take good care of Crystal for me, won’t you mother?” her eyes no flickered to the ground, her face covered in guilt.

“Yes, yes of course,” she said as Carmalita walked out of the door. They embraced and then Carmalita had made her way down to where the company were to meet.

Now they were on their way and it seemed as though a new member was just about to join their company. The two elves conversed in elvish, and then Énien commanded the rest of them to lower their swords. Who was she to say that? Carmalita stared at the new elf as he talked to Énien, she then looked around the rest of the company. The boy, Bregand was standing a little way behind her, and behind him stood Wren and the drunk man, she had forgotten his name but it didn’t matter. She stared at the rest of the company as they patiently waited for the two to finish.