Northstar Vale white clover

He smiled in a slightly cocked manner, rueful but genuine. He too would do what he needed to, and it was beginning to dawn on him exactly what it was that was holding the Plateau back from what it could be. What it had been before. This was an idea for another time, however, and he was content as she to let the conversation rest where it had finished. Each likely had much to think about.

For the first time, it crossed his mind that he did not know the dark woman's name. But he refrained from asking. Somehow, the mystery appealed to him, as if knowing her name would mean he could no longer be so open, for it would mean he would have to exchange his own as well. Here they were still strangers, unlabeled and unknowable. It might have been a naive and childish way of thinking but he enjoyed it all the same.

"Likewise, with you." He returned honestly, looking to the northern side of the mountains. He could make it a ways farther if he hurried, but he knew he would not linger long this trip. They were too few in number to lose anyone for more than a couple of days. After watching Amekaze disappear, contemplatively, he did the same, setting off in a direction away from her own that would tend northward soon after.