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Sawleah walked along side Maska as the scorra was helping to carry her supplies. It was really nice and she was glad that Meri had helped to convince her to keep the scorra as a pet and not eat it. It helped to carry so many more supplies! Ok well not to many but enough that Sawleah was feeling much better about traveling. Right now she was headed south toward Neued hopping to see what the market would be like. She had quite a few supplies from Tale and wondered not only what the Jauhnar was like and then there was the influx from the Oban markets since Neued had become a stopping point and blending of cultures. She adjusted her pack and moved quickly across the sands. She wanted to get as much distance today as possible. Right now she had a heavy pack and a lot of berries and nuts. As the trip weighed on she would need to dry or eat a lot of those berries so finding a good spot to do so before nightfall would be best. Her mind raced over the procedure to dry them out since she was on the road and not back home in Isd where she could just let them dry out for days. Maybe she could weave a drying strand and have it around Maska’s neck so as the scorra traveled she could help? No then Maska might eat them and that could be trouble of a different sort. Sighing she decided it would best to do it at sundown tonight and hope for the best.

The voice made her turn her head and glance back. There was an ice tribe man with a scorra coming up behind her. Tucking a stray strand of hair behind her ear she noticed right away his skin discoloration and facial scar. Whoever this was they had certainly been in a fight. She gave a nod and grin back thinking he couldn’t be too bad if he was being nice enough to ask to travel with her. “ I don’t mind.” She slowed until he caught up and walked beside him for a moment. She did take note of his looks but it was the scorra who held her attention the most. Nice healthy long strong legs. Good plumage and such pretty colors too! “Your scorra is lovely.” Saw didn’t want Maksa to feel bad so she made sure to pet her quite and beautiful scorra. “I’m Sawleah and this is Maksa. We’re bound for Neued.” She didn’t want to talk the poor stranger’s ear off about markets and the like so she left her introduction short and to the point. After all she didn’t really know where this stranger was headed and didn’t want to get them lost if they didn’t know the way.

She was glad to see that the ice man didn’t seem to have any trouble with his footing in the sands so perhaps he was a very experienced traveler? Either that or he had paid attention to the cute little scorra who was tagging along with him.

Dawn was a cute name! Not only that but it matched the scorra well. Oba? That was a far hike though she supposed his direction made sense. There was a lot of mystery there so even hearing about oba was a bit thrilling. “I don’t mind at all. I am fairly well versed in the creatures and plants of Tale after all when you want to cook it’s important to know what to eat and what not to eat.” Smiling she wondered how much he wanted to know. “Well as I’m sure you know Dawn can’t fly or glide or anything like that but she could easily outrun pretty much any other creature in Tale, definitely any earthling. That’s why hunting a flock can be so difficult to do. They are also pretty hard to tame, though if you manage it they are very loyal and will follow you to the ends of the world.” She ran thought a list of things that were harder to fight than a scorra in Tale. A wintu sure, a seriffin and of course a knifa. Though of all those only a knifa might follow someone home the others just seemed impossible to tame. “What other kinds of things would you like to know before I just start chatting your ear off like a merik nest?”

Food as in what the scorra were to eat? Surprised he cared so much and yet touched she smiled. Nodding she thought for a while making a list in her mind. “Well for the most part their primary diet includes grasses, shrubs, seeds, roots, leaves, flowers and sometimes bugs and things they can catch. If the plant isn’t poisonous to you it should be fine for your scorra.” She was quite for moment thinking about how to answer his other question. “No I’ve never been to Neud but I’m going for a number of reasons. One I want to see what it is like and to meet the fire and water earthlings I’ve heard about. Second and more importantly I want to find new things to mix in with my recipes. With the influx of fire and water tribe members there are bound to be lots of new things from their lands. I should be able to get more recipes and of course ingredients.” She was excited talking about it but then when she was finished was oddly silent as she worked though some possibilities about things she had only heard about in Yera but never actually seen. She was quite in mosting in her own mind for quite a while during the walking. How long she was quite for even she couldn’t say.

She nodded her head about to elaborate when three men stepped out. They were leaf tribe like her, but there was something so wrong. Their faces were leering and contorted with snarls looking at the ice tribe man next to her. She noticed that the other scorra was hiding behind hers as well. The poor thing looked positively petrified. “Excuse me.” She tensed up. She was going to say more when a sharp gesture made her flinch and step back out of reflex. She looked at the ice tribe man. “What do they want?” She grabbed a pan, since it was the only thing she had that was really hard. She supposed a knife would work but the idea of hurting another person was beyond her.

Sweetheart? She bristled at that term. The man clearly was dismissing her. It was bad enough that many people in her home did the same but from a total stranger it was an insult rather than just a normal situation. A small part of her was relieved because the men were imposing but she was not about to show that. She tensed up and adjusted the grip on her pan. “I don’t know anything about bad company. All I know is you are the ones who just stepped out and are looking to beat up a traveler.” She looked back at the ice man surprised. She looked at Dawn. It was clear the little scorra was scared. Glaring back at the hunters she held her pan up at them. “You all should be ashamed you are attacking a man over staving what is clearly his familiar now even it wasn’t then. Rather then being vindictive about this you should go out and catch another.” She still moved back and tried to herd Dawn and her own scorra away but cast a worried glance at Myrksy perhaps Dawn had bandagages in her pack? She was worried that three on one Myrksy would need them. “Be careful.” She whispered to him leading Dawn away.

Sawleah wasn’t sure what to expect but the runes glowing and then ice just forming from what seemed to be nothing was definitely not it. Squeaking she stepped back and held the two scorra’s with wide eyes. A magic user and one who was amazing at that! She was definitely lucky to have started to travel with him, and more to the point not be one of those thugs. The wind tugged at her hair and she watched as a man flung himself to the side avoiding the ice.

He looked wide eyed at what he avoided for a moment before narrowing them at the mage as if considering his attack options. Sawleah couldn’t believe it. Would the man really attack even though he was all alone and it was clear the Myrksy was a strong mage willing to defend himself and his familiar. When the thug tossed a glance at her she pulled a frown over her face and let go of her own scorra to brandish her pan in what she thought was a threatening manner. A serious threat she might not be, but she was not about to just roll over and let an innocent familiar get slaughter because of some thug’s pride.

The man seemed to dismiss her fast enough and look back to his skewered companions and another glance at Myrksy before deficing that indeed fighting a mage who had just skewed two of his allies was not a good idea. She felt a large amount of relief as the man hurried off. Honestly though leaving his friends behind was just ridiculous. Sawleah was muttering about him being a bully and a coward as she moved the two scorra close to Myrksy once more to keep traveling.

Sawleah looked down at the two who would no longer see the world yet had now become part of the earth. “There is no need they have gone already to join the spirits of the land. If it will help we could bury them to give some solace to our own souls but the spirits of the land already has them safely taken.” She gave the earthling a smile glad he was so considerate of her peoples ways. Burring them would keep scavengers from this path but with the winds they might end up exposed again unless buried under the crystal grass which could be a rather tedious venture she wasn’t certain he would care to undergo seeing as these men had attacked him before. More over their friend might well come back later and bury them himself.