Ophene had to run back to where she had set up her base of operations to gather a few thing before they left. Luckily it wasn't all that far away from where they talked to the merchant. Other than essentials, she grabbed a few books. A novel by a popular Caedrdrillian author (at least by those that could read) and a magical reading resource she was using as a study source while away from home.

For the trip, she took a certainly unpopular position of riding on the wagon.  Why waste time and energy walking when she could be sitting and reading a good book?  She'd just be sitting on the front near where one would be able to see everything anyway, so there was no harm in just relaxing there like that.  For the most part of the beginning of the journey she sat there making, [color=7FFFD4]"Oooooooohh. . ."[/color] and [color=7FFFD4]"Uhuhuhuhu"[/color] noises. . .  She most have been reading something weird. . .

While it seemed she was deep in her book, she was keeping an ear out for unsavory sounds. . . Like the ever so fearful sound of rattling bushes and squaking of odd blackbodied but colorfully designed beaked birds.  They were an impressionable bird that made one wonder, [color=7FFFD4]"What kind of bird is that?"[/color] Ophene voiced softly, curious about this random creature she had never seen before.  She wasn't expecting an answer, hell, she wasn't sure if she said it loud enough for anyone else to hear. . .