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"Di'ania Alise Medre." One of the Sisters of the Woods called out into the practice field.

"Oh s**t..." Di'a muttered, her whole name, she wondered what the sisters had found she had done now. It was not matter of what she had done... simply of which incident they had discovered, "Comming Sister Alida..." she said grabbing her sesera case and wrapping her blade as she ran to answer her summons.

Alida smiled at Di'a, "You are actually not in trouble in case you were worried..."

Di'a smiled in relief, "Why would I be worried about that Sister?"

"MmmHm..." Alida said, "I thought that might just have been a guilty concious peaking through... Care to confess?"

Di'a batted her long black lashes, "Confessions are reserved for the Revered Mother..."

Alida laughed, "Good... becuase that is who you were summoned by... you can tell her during your audience..."

Di'a bit her lip against asking why she was summoned, Alida said she wasn't in trouble and if Alida had known she would have said, so it must be a private matter. And that worried Di'a more then being in trouble.

"Di'ania... we are here..." Alida said trying to bring Di'a out of her thoughts.

Di'a took a deep breath and let it out, before walking through the simple wood door into the Revered Mother's office. "Good Morning, Revered Mother..." Di'a said touching her forehead to the floor before rising back up to a kneeling position.

The Revered Mother walked over and lifted Di'a's chin to look at her before taking the younger girl's hands and helping her to her feet, "Not today my little one..." The Revered Mother said her voice a blend of many subtle emotions, "Today you are no less imprtant then I..."

Di'a's eyes studied the woman who had taken her in and nursed her as a baby, but had always been an exhaulted personage. "Revered Mother... what... what is it?" she asked becoming worried.

"I have seen what is to become of you my child..." she said sadly, "And to do so the time has come for you to leave us..." Before Di'a recovered from her shock the Revered Mother had already begun to answer the question in Di'a's eyes, "When you were found I was given a sign that you would be more then just another Sister... I thought at first that you would be Mother after me... but as I prayed this morning I was told that I must set you on your path... A path that will send you from this place..."

"But why me?" Di'a asked sounding a bit lost.

The Revered Mother smiled, "It is because of what you are my child... your birth is unknown... on that battle field, lay peasants trying to flee desperate lives, young noble women being sent here to be kept safe in the growing dangers of this world... Elves and humans... you are kin to all and yet tied to none." The Revered Mother helped Di'a to sit in a chair, "And living here as you have you are pure in a way those soaked in the blood and perceptions of the battling faction are not... You are a new pair of eyes... And you are strong... stronger then most..."

"But Mother..." Di'a said her voice plantive, "I do not know anything of the outside world..."

"All the more reason for you to go and learn..." The Revered Mother said her tone becoming more firm. "Preperation are being made for you... say your goodbyes and you will leave at sundown..."

Di'a recognized the Revered Mother's tone and bowed her head, "Yes, Revered Mother..." Di'a bowed and left still in shock.

After the door shut the Revered Mother allowed a few tears she had held back to flow from her eyes, "Great Spirit... you asked for the life of my dearest daughter to your service... please... please protect her..."



Di'a started her rounds and saying goodbye to the only family she had ever known.

Randall looked back in the direction of the camp and he was in through for awhile before he brought himself back out of it and focused his attention to Key. "Well if that's the case then it is better to cut ties so to speak and move on." And Randall wanted nothing more than to cut ties anyway. Even if the army were to return home either sooner or later, he rather get back home on his own and work his way from there, though at the moment he was good where he was. "Since I know the answer may be something that includes the wind, what are you going to do next?"

He came across teh convent of the sisters in the later part of the day, the sun just starting it's descent along the sky. It was out of the way, but not overly so. besides a warm meal and an actual bed for an evening after who knows how many weeks and months of cots and travel rations for the most part would be most appreciated. Not to mention his horse could probably use some looking after with all the travel between camps and stations. Wouldn't want him to end up lame.

So that was teh path he took.to lead his horse there for some much desired rest, food, and to make sure his horse was going to make the rest of the trip to the capitol.

The tug at the corners of her mouth that pulled her lips into a smile told how amused she was by that fact. "So...you think it better to travel in a pack with someone else, than alone and trying to best the world on your own?" She turned her attention back to the path ahead that was opening into plains. "If you can keep up, you can stay...though you might want to get very good, very fast, at catching squirrels." This was going to be interesting...besides if he couldn't keep up she'd just leave him.

Scoffing, she moved towards him and rolled her eyes. "Yes, because this is so valuable." Lifting up the leather gauntlet he'd picked up and tossing it aside. "We have plenty of those. What good is it?" Reaching into her skirt, she removed an amulet that twinkled in the sun. "Now this, this we can do something with. It's elven and you know what that means." Rolling her fingers over the chain gently.

"Careful, squirrels are cranky." Reaching over and petting at the giant wolf that was meandering along with them. "She gets cranky without her squirrels." Chuckling at that but turning a look on him as he questioned. "Why would we need to stop? All that does is waste time, does it not? We rested earlier. Are you not ready for such a journey?"

"It's not what it is, but what it is made of that is important. This is what you lack sight of." He shared her habit of rolling eyes, especially when she got all endeared over shiny things. Women and their shiny things, pfft. "Either it's expensive or has magic to it. I personally would melt it down." Throwing things into a canvas bag, he slung it over his shoulder and walked over to her, poking her in the forhead hard enough to tip her some. "Assana is right, no lick of sense."

"Noted on both accounts there." Though Randall did have a few encounters with squirrels before, so he had to agree with Key's logic on the animals, damn fuzzy things were always twitchy. Though he looked to her and blinked when she looked back at him and questioned his question. "Oh, well I thought with the time of day and the area we would be stopping. If we're not going to stop then I don't mind going on for awhile." Randall didn't want to be seen as lazy, but luckily for him the army trained him not to be so he had that be thankful for at least in some way.