[b]"We can work on the details, the more rumors the better really, I think you are too clean to make a believable squire,"[/b] she said fighting off a yawn of her own as the last of the rains chill was warmed away by the glowing embers of the fire. She cast him a deliberately critical look.

[b]"Though I suppose that might just be because of the rain,"[/b] she teased. Scootching across the cave floor she put her back up against the cool stone wall.

[b]"We could be partners, sole survivors of some ill fated expedition, a noble woman on pilgrimage with a guide, the more stories we start, the harder it will be for anyone to connect us to Otto,"[/b] She went on. It was a very workable idea, one they could tailor to whatever situation they found themselves in.

[b]"Better think about sleep,"[/b] she said, indicating that she would take the first watch. They weren't on any particular plan, so she figured she would get the longer rest if she took the first turn watching. She didn't know how much food, to the extent that jerky could be considered food, they had left, but she figured that the sooner they were out of this place the better. Maybe once they reached the forest or the river they could find more food. She didn't have the vaguest idea of how to hunt food without a party of hunters to make it a game and the very idea of catching her own fish seemed ridiculous, but she supposed she could learn.