The Sunspire So this is your home

"Do not worry about me getting in trouble," Wraen replied with a crooked grin and cast a glance over her shoulder, as if there were invisible eyes watching and invisible ears listening to them. "If you don't behave, prepare to run and very fast," the joke was not a very good one, but implied that the danger was quite real.

"Let's not waste any time then - come on," she chose a well-trodden path and led her companion confidently ahead. What she did not tell him and what he had no way of knowing, was that she was not taking the straightest route to the passage. For safety reasons she chose a slightly longer and more curved path, where landmarks were harder to recognize and looked more or less the same.

"How big is your family - your father and sister aside - does anyone else live in the wilds?" she continued the conversation to pass the time.