After what seemed like an hour, the sandstorm had died down with Almira half-buried in place. Due to the unstable condition of the dunes surrounding her, she was unable to move, save that she risk her body being swallowed by the landscape. A mild disability was better than a permanent one. Precariously, she struggled to squirm out of the hole, clawing in handfuls of sand from the surface but to no avail. The next thing she knew, the young girl found herself being pushed out of the sand from beneath. A sigh of relief escaped from her lips as the gigantic reptile mewled happily, finally reunited with his rider. "Where were you! I was so worried... what's that?" she redirected her eyes to the bundle of herbs Ahmir held in-between his jaws. A million fireworks went off in her head at that moment. "Rosemary!" 

The two continued on their travel to the edge of the desert, only stopping for succulent plants and anything that could substitute for edibles.