[color=D6CC88][u][b]Campsite[/b][/u]

The child got to her feet and stretched, before picking up Ethan's coat and shaking it out.  "Thank you," she told him softly, placing it by his bag.  She gaped at Cecil as he just pulled off his leg and started cleaning it.  How...was he really Machina?  "But Machina don't look like us!" she blurted, before clapping her hand over her mouth in shame.  Flushing red, she was saved further embarrassment by Ethan, who offered her a strip of meat.  Amuné shook her head.  "We should eat the fresh food first," she informed him, pointing towards the ashes and embers of the fire.  She made her way over to the fire and dug herself up another piece of the rabbit from where she'd placed it the night before.  The meat had been kept warm by the fire's coals, and Amuné held one hand out to Wyth so he could lick the juice from her fingers with his sandpaper tongue.  On more sensitive skin it would hurt, but her palms were calloused from helping her mother grind herbs and from the harvests, when everyone in the village lended a hand.

The Ydran man beckoned her over as he spread out his map, and she joined him.  She looked at the markings, and where he indicated, a frown creasing his forehead.  Surely he knew how to read it?  Why would Ethan have a map if he couldn't?  She considered the map, sounding out the names of the towns on it under her breath.  A few of the cities she recognized, and her father had shown them to her on a map like this.  Judging by the placement and the distance....  The girl stretched out a still-damp finger and pointed, not actually touching it to the map so as not to get the paper dirty.  "Here," she mumbled to herself, "and then south...I'm not fast, but how far?"  Her finger moved south, pausing, then moving to a town that was not any of the ones Ethan had pointed at.  "Here," she said, though she didn't sound entirely certain.  "East is that way."  She pointed off toward the origin of the light that filtered down through the trees.  Privately she was surprised the man had managed to get as far as he had, considering how poor his map skills were.[/color]