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Nadya turned and stared at the others. This was one problem that she hadn't foreseen. Then again, in this world, it was inconceivable that anyone might not know how to ride ... even those who didn't own their own horses learned how at one point or another, before they were grown. Nadya herself rarly rode, but she did know how.

Shades ... now what?

"We have to go all the way to the Northland," she informed them all, her expression confused for what could well have been the first time in many long years. "But you cannot be here long. If we cannot ride, how are we to make it there and back within the time you need to get back home?"

Outside Lin's bedroom door, the hall was lined, as were they all, with guards. Upon seeing the little girl and the kirin leaving the room, all eyes were drawn towards them - though no other muscles moved. They seemed almost like statues ... and were just as cold and forbidding looking.

Nadya looked at Yue sharply, suddenly realizing what her vision had been telling her, the one that had woken her from her sleep.

"What if you were to have been there in your mind?" she asked him curiously. She knew Gion could easily do that for him. After all, he had spent quite a bit of time up there, had mapped out the entire Four Lands, and he created those dream world visions between himself and Daemon all the time - how hard could it be to take Yue there with his mind?

"Would it work?"

Yue looked thoughtful for a moment, "It could work, it would get us closer to where we are, but it won't get us to the exact spot... more like an area of where we're suppose to be," he explained.

He nodded for a moment, that should work, though it would be draining he would admit. Without Yukito there and runes especially portal runes were his mother's specialty.

Lin blinked turning her head to look down the hall. She raised a brow making her way down the hall towards the snicker she heard looking without fear straight at the guards. She survevyed each and every one of them with Nina ambling behind her.

"It would save us four weeks of travel, one way," Nadya told Yue in a soft voice. "And by that time they could have moved the same distance we would have traveled. I leave the decision to you. If you think you can do it, please do. If not, I will not ask again."

She gazed at him almost expressionlessly. She didn't want to pressure him, make him do something he didn't want to do, or didn't feel up to.

Nadya smiled and nodded, then turned and beckoned to Gion. "Can you?" she murmured, her eyes growing warm as she looked at him.

At the sound of the footsteps, a weathered face poked out of the newly opened door. It was an elf who appeared to be ... well ... old. And considering his race, that was saying something. He had long black hair that was pulled back in a neat low ponytail that went down to his knees. His copper skin was darker than most others', dark enough that some might describe him as mahogany. Despite the legendary immortal youth of the elves, he seemed a bit wrinkled around the corners of his eyes and mouth.

"Quar ed ..." he muttered. He blinked at the tiny child with surprise, and his eyes grew wide.

"And here I though I had seen everything," he murmured in an awe-filled tone.