"Did she said hurt badly? If its injuries I'm pretty good at healing them. What with my father being a soldier and all." She smiled brightly but of course the person she was smiling too couldn't see. "I also tend to hang around soldiers too much..." She sighed and grabbed the horse's reins. She checked her packs and chewed on her lip as she took note of what all she had. "I have a few things in here to eat but nothing really suitable. We should be alright though to get back to Elvor....unless you two eat alot." She said indicating Alyse and Rysc. She also still worried how this would turn out if Lihua found out.

"Right, I'm sure we both eat a rather normal amount." Rysc checked through his belongings and stood ready. He then, for the third time, headed toward the castle.

"We should be safe, I think it's too soon for anyone outside of the castle to know much... and I don't know anyone who would hurt someone for... this..." Rys gestured at his chest, eager to get rid of the self-absorbed girl. At least there was a reward.

Farsiris sighed audibly. "Yes, badly. I was thrown from my horse and they couldn't move me. So they put me in here for the trip back to the castle. Coincidently, the thing that they used to save me was the very thing that was so irisistably shinny, Mr. I'm just going to take bobble here that no one seems to want, just picked me up and took me away..." she explained as they started towards the castle.

Amaria giggled at the Princess's nickname for Rysc and shook her head. She clucked her tongue and the horse starting walking as soon as she did. She was two steps behind Rysc so as to keep a polite distance and becaues she had the horse with her. She looked over her shoulder to Alyse and smiled. "C'mon lets go." She then looked ahead. "They probably don't know at the castle. I mean they're going to be starting the yearly hunt festival soon. At least they should be." She said to all of them. She stretched her arms up, sore and tired from her day at the market.

"If they do, they're going to try and keep it quiet. I mean, the princess being missing could be kidnappers or over-romantic princes. It could be an international incident. So they're going to want to keep things pretty quiet and search for her discreetly." Alyse was glad she was going with Rysc. It was an adventure, which actually sounded kind of fun. The Quest to Return Princess Farsiris.

The cart slowed down, as they neared a bar. Lihua buried herself in the hay more while the cart completely stopped. She could, she supposed, ask him for a ride. If he refused though, she would have to walk. It was quite a few mies further. She could walk it, of course, but she'd end up being sore and tired. She just hoped he was where he said he'd be. The musty smell of the hay began to tickle her nose. She moved her sleeve to her nose and blew air out her nose, trying to clear whatever partices had gotten stuck there. She would not sneeze!

Farsiris listened silently. Not really interested in the banter of the commoners who seemed to be in a mood to help her. Finally.... (((Not sure what else to say XD)))

Cameron saw the hay shift and tilted her head to one side. The wagon had come to a halt and she leaned against a tree near it. "You trying to get yourself killed? or do you do this regularily?" she asked.

"Oh!" Someone had seen her. Great. "Um, no. But I have to get to my boyfriend... I think he's in trouble." She picked hay out of her hair. "I just have this sense, you know. And it's probably right, knowing him. I love him, but he has a habit for finding it."

"You're both right, there isn't much good them releasing it as publicized information, but if we aren't fast, its going to get out." Rysc walked alongside the girls. There was no reason to lead, as they all knew the location of the castle. As they walked, he eventually began to fiddle with Farsiris, then eventually removed the chain from his neck, and swung it round his finger.

As it seemed quiet, Rysc attempted to make some conversation, forgetting about the existence of Farsiris. "So how's everything been going, you two?"

Amaria smiled and giggled. "Things are alright. Daddy is making me consider giving up selling my medicines and looking for a husband." She shrugged. "I'm beyond the age of marriage. But I want to marry a soldier but really who's going to marry or even date a witch." She was a happy girl. Nothing really got her down or angry. She could however bring down raining fire when she did get mad. There was that small incident as a child when she was still living in the courts at Elvor. "Besides that I finally got that medicine for joint pains correct! Sold a good amount today, hehe!!" She smiled brightly as the horse nosed her pockets for treats.

"I would suggest you keep to your medicine, you know, I think If you could become popular with your work, nobody would care." Rysc thought about that, it seemed all of the magic using people in the castle actually where quite liked by everyone. "I guess it's like an all or nothing thing, for some."

[Basically a bunch of chit-chat, huh?]

Farsiris felt herself being swung round and round, and the sensationw as nausating. "PLease-- Don't--- swing-- me!" she said, her voice coming and going with the arch of her trodgetery. "Its... Making me, siiick." she said.


"I see." Cameron said. "Well," she looked at the girl and felt a little bit of pity for her. Her appearance just screamed, "ROB ME!!" "you know its not the smartest idea to travel alone in these parts... Lots of Robers and Merc's, err, Mercinaries, who wouldn't think twice about taking advantage of a woman on her own." The driver had gone into the pub for a moment, and wasn't there to hear them talk. Looking around she sighed, she couldn't leave her on her own. "Here, why don't we travel together until you find this boyfriend of yours? Two people are less tempting than one to bother."

"Oh, does it?" Rysc smiled and swung the ornament with even more velocity. He held it above his head so to avoid hitting anyone, but it soon flew off his finger angled behind him. It hit a tree with some sort of metal tang, then fell to the grass by the trunk.

Farsiris screamed as she felt herself hurtling through the air, then she hit something hard and she realized it was a tree. "YOU BASTARD!" she screamed. "IF YOU BROKE THIS THING AND TRAPPED ME IN HERE, I'LL RIPPED YOUR HEAD OFF MYSELF!" she bellowed. "Someone come here and get me! I landed it something squishy..." she almost cried the last word.

At first, Rysc, in his surprise, worried that he may have lost Farsiris. However, her screams led him to the location. "How are you going to do that stuck in an ornament? Your such a stupid highborn. Your the daughter of the king. All he needs is a son. He wouldn't care about you." He knelt to pick up the ornament, lifting it by the chain.

"In fact, I could leave you here, like this, forever. And everyone would forget about you. After one-hundred years? A thousand? Wouldn't that be hell."

Anger coursed through her. "I am the first born, the throne belongs to me in his passing you fool!" The metal of her ornament turned red hot with her furry. "And so what if you left me here! Someone would find me eventually! And they would take me home!" she shouted. "Now, stop fooling around here and start walking towards the castle! We'll both be rid of eachother soon enough!" She would have prefered one of the females carry her now, she was furious with Rysc, the foolish good for nothing peasant.

"Not if you where in the bottom of the ocean."

Rysc stood, and pulled out a small bag for carrying jewelry or stones. he dropped Farsiris into it, tugged the string closed, and put the bag into his pocket. He turned awkwardly back to the other girls.

Her voice was muted. "Hey! You're not just going to stand there and let him shove me into his thing infested pocket!?!" she pleaded with the girls there. She imagined what she would do if she had her body, she would have slapped Rysc hard across the face and then stormed off. Instead, she was forced into a sake in his pocket. "PLEASE?" she shouted pitifully.

Amaria watched, her head lifting up and turning, as the necklace sailed through the air and landed with a thud on the ground. She grimaced and looked back at Rysc who went over to retrieve Farsiris. She listened to the conversation and blinked. "I grew up learning that no matter if a daughter is first born, a son always has first rights to the throne. That way a king is always in rule. Only when they have no other children will a girl take the throne. Or at least that's what mother explained to me when I lived at the castle." She shrugged and watched Rysc place the ring in a bag. "I might just stick to medicines though convincing my father will be difficult. But people do tend to like me and my stuff." She shrugged and then sighed watchign Rysc place the girl in the jewel bag. "Do you want me to carry her for a bit, she doesn't seem to like it in there."

"Thank you for the offer. You're right. If I had thought I would have brought one of my friends but I felt I had to come urgently... I don't have enough food for two people though. I hope you have your own. It's quite a ways." Lihua said gratefully.

"You know, this will go alot better if you guys stop bickering. You do want to get home princess, don't you?" Alyse advised.

"YES! Let her carry me, you mad man with throwing objects!" she cried. "I want to actually make it home in one piece!" Then she realized what the girl had said and composed herself to answer. "My brothers are younger, but... father has decided I will claim the throne when I marry." she explained. "In any case, we should stop this bickering, just as soon as you give me to..." she thought for a moment. "Ameria, who won't chuck me at a tree...."

"Yeah, I got my own gear and food." she said, adjusting the pack on her back to enphasize the statement. She opened her mouth to continue but then the man was coming out to reclaim his wagon, he stopped and looked at Cameron, talking to the back of his wagon. "good sir," she called. Walking up with long, confident strides she spoke to him for a few moments and gave him several coins. Then she returned to the wagon and hopped on. "For all intensive purposes, you're now my sister." she said, brushing hay off the girl. "And I'm Cameron Sotat," she said putting out a hand.

"I'm Lihua. Lihua Weaver." She said, shaking the pro-offered hand. "Well that's my profession.... just call me Lihua. so what are you doing in these parts? You seem already prepared for a journey."

[it's so short I can feel it choking itself.]

Rysc extracted the bag from his pocket and tossed it at Amaria, waving his hand in an underhand throw twice as warning. "It's Amaria. You could at least get the name right."

He walked over to the girls, facing both but making eye contact with his ex. "Sorry, Alyse."

"What are you sorry for? Obviously the princess trusts Amaria more than me. I'm not sure I'd want to be carried by me either. She has a much better temper than me. I'd probably start spinning her in circles if she ticked me off. No, I think the princess is better off without vertigo." Alyse smiled broadly. 'Besides,' Alyse thought to herself, 'I never was good with magic things. Good solid weapons for me.'

Farsiris felt herself land in Amaria's hand. "sorry for the mispronounciation..." she said, then fell silent. The group progressed, until the castle was within view, whether or not they were aware of it. A great comotion was about the capital city, Farsiris felt the sensation of her heart jump to her throat, then she heard the chatter of the towns people.... her brother was moving to take her place as heir since her unfortunate 'accident' "WHAT?!" she demanded. "What is going on?"

"Well," she hesitated as she situated herself in the back of the wagon. "I'm looking for work, my profession takes me all over the country, even outside of it when a good cntract comes up." she said, looking out at the road that seemed to move away from them. This sensation was nothing new, she left so many things behind, so often that this was almost routine. Cameron siged and leaned back, dropping her sack beside herself.

Lihua wanted to ask what her profession was but choked it back. She hadn't said so directly so she wouldn't pry. "Been anywhere especially interesting? I've barely gone out of my district, much less the country! The local market and my house are usually where I go, occasionally a farther one or a special request buyer. I've already gone pretty far." Lihua smiled. For the moment, she wasn't even thinking of the potential danger Rysc was in, simply the strange journey.