Welcome to Gaia! ::

Her name. She had it again. She also had more memories and... a promise. Still half forgotten, but it was something. More than she had before. She was gaining knowledge. She had made a good choice.

Her color was back. She hadn't known it was missing until now, but it was back. Her heart she could no longer see, but she could feel it and it brought her comfort. The lock on her neck, well, she didn't know a thing about that but she let it be.

When it came time to make another choice, this time she walked toward gold. Her color, it matched. So she chose the throne. And she ended up in a place that was very different from anywhere she had memory of being.

A journey? To be something greater than she was? OK. Why not? Not...like there was any turning back.

Sherry looked at the shack with it's little creatures out front. A journey. Well. She knew enough about the world to know that one of these lucky creatures would help her on this journey. She just had to pick one. The horse seemed pleasant enough, but something inside her both loved it and hated it. The goat was cute, if a bit scraggly. She...wasn't sure how she felt about riding a goat. The alpaca was fluffy. She floofed its fluff for a full five minutes before deciding to check out the last animal. A camel. The camel was the tallest and the lankiest of the 4 beasts. Something in her knowledge base linked the word camel with the word caravan and that made her think of travel which of course led to journey. So, based on word associations she untied the camel.

Besides. It'd be kind of awesome viewing the road from way up there on his back.

It would be aweosme, once she got up there. Even with Sgt. Pepper (he smelled faintly of spices ok) kneeling, it took her a moment to actually get into the saddle. She didn't know if she'd ever ridden any of these creature before, and based on muscle memory, she doubted it.

Once up and on her very dashing mount, Sherry set out as the voice instructed. The village she rode through was empty, and it didn't take long for her to reach the edge of it.

Green plains stretched before her and Sgt. Pepper. "Alight. Let's get going."

It took a moment for Sgt. Pepper to actually start moving.

By the 10th kilometer, she was singing to Pepper.

Sherry felt like they were making good progress.

"Nice work, Pepper. You are a very good camel." She gave him a friendly pat on the shoulder.

....She realized then she had no idea if Sgt. Pepper was male or female. She was not getting off to check.

[Attacking Bandits] (20-8= 12 damage taken)

The bandits attacked and Sherry did what she could to fend them off. There were too many, and they were a bit too strong. The battle was brief, and she was glad for that. She did not escape unscathed.

But they were on the road again, and that was all that mattered.

She liked it very much.

But a nap sounded so good, it was almost worth trying.

Almost.

Especially since Pepper was nearly rocking her to sleep.

So thus they pressed on.

Sherry began to wonder about silly things. Like...why did the camel have a hump? Why?