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She had known, she didn't know where or when she learned it but she knew as a fact, that knights went on Quests. A lot of Quests. She had also known that knights could quest for anything. To rescue some royal child, or some artifact of great renown, or even just a quest into town for a delicious strawberry pie. (How she knew knights quested for pie she had no idea, but she knew they did.) This was all knowledge she seemed born with, or well. Reborn with.

So she should not have been surprised to find that her latest quest was another one for item retrieval. But she was, a little. She'd awoken that morning rather hoping to test herself against some great beast of a dragon or something. Instead she was being sent out for some other piece of, well, she guessed it was armor. What exactly was a mantle?

Sherry sighed. She supposed, she thought to herself as she tied her bags to her horse again, that it was better this way. She probably wasn't ready for anything too difficult. That raccoon had done a number on her last time.

No, she should trust that those in charge knew what they were doing. She was only an apprentice, after all.

Another sigh as she settled herself into the saddle. She knew, honestly, that the root of this train of thought was the fact that she didn't feel strong enough yet. They were here to stand against the enemy in the shadows, and she was afraid that she wasn't ready.

Sherry continued on after her horse left. If she was going to grow, then she couldn't give up. She had to push on.

That didn't stop her from taking a break in the middle of the forest. This walking thing was tiring, and she decided stopping for a break every now and then was a good idea.

She noted her food supplies were getting low as she pulled out a bit of bread to eat. Hopefully they would last the journey. If not, she supposed she'd just have to try again.

The spider that scurried over her foot had come from NOWHERE and scared her near to death. And there was no way she was finishing that bread after it landed in that puddle there.

Sherry told herself it was making her stronger.

There was another hill to climb.

And Sherry did climb that hill. At the top, she found nothing but a bench with the mantle she'd been sent to find on top of it.

"Well. A job well done. And I'm that much stronger for it." She smiled to herself as she turned around to head back to the castle.