Hearing about Kaleeth-Rei's brother's death caused something of an awkward moment. "Oh... I'm sorry," Janius offered in a solemn tone, his face lowering. Janius found it hard to truly empathise in this case; he had passing friends from the Fighter's Guild die before. Some died before his very eyes by the stings of giant spiders. However, he never had any siblings, or really any of his loved ones die. Excepting his grandfather from old age, but that was a protracted affair. Kaleeth's case sounded like it happened more suddenly. Kaleeth broke the silence and announced that she had an errand to run, or something of that nature. "Okay, I will see you later then." Janius smiled and waved.

[i]Hmm, friendly girl.[/i] Janius thought to himself as he looked over the rest of his equipment. Perhaps he would succeed in keeping it at a friendship. He had mostly succeeded in [i]refraining[/i] from showering her with compliments... until he realised that he had made enough that such a point was moot. Well, it probably wasn't going to turn into anything more than a hunt and some language practice... until he looked at his bedroll. [i]I am bad at this, aren't I?[/i] he thought between unwillingly forming fantasies in his mind. [i]It's times like these that I realise how unhealthily my mind defaults.[/i]

In the few hours that they waited, some equipment maintenance and general resting and recovery was done after spending most of the day travelling. Sabine occupied herself by spreading out some alchemical equipment to produce some more insect repellant. After mixing enough to keep the pack supplied for a while longer, she detected some footprints behind her and turned to see Meesei and the treeminder. The first mysterious trial. Sabine took a shaky breath in through her mouth and stood up. Looking down, she followed Thorantilth without a word. At least Meesei was there, that was some comfort.