The rest of the meeting went on without much issue. Mia and the other barons seemed willing to let her leave once again and Penelope informed them that her patrol would take their leave in a day. As the topic of her report finished off, they continued on to speak about how they were handling supplies. The female knight was relieved to hear that they had already put in a request to the king for more supplies. Since it was impossible for them to recover the stolen supplies now, they would be needing the shipment. 

However, it would still be a while before they came in which was why the group also discussed how to go about rationing the supplies they did have. It seemed they had already assigned a few knights to help with keeping track of the stock as well as handling how to divide it out. Provided Younis didn't attack before the new supplies arrived, it nearly seemed like the camp could recover from the heavy hit. 

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"So, how'd it go?"

With the meeting over, Penelope had set out to find Gavin and Olivia to discuss what was coming next for them. It was now later in the day-the meeting had lasted sometime due to all there was to discuss and plan-and the three were sitting together under a tree in a small circle. Gavin was the first to ask about the meeting, looking a bit nervous. 

"It went fine." Penelope told him with a small shrug. "Mia doesn't like that I'm going to be gone again but she agreed to let us travel to Wheldrake."

"So we're still going?" Gavin asked with a hint of disappointment. 

Penelope looked over at him and sighed. "Yes of course. From what I've heard, they haven't found any traces of the thieves here and even if they did, it'd probably be the wrong ones. The lead we have is pretty much all we've got to finding the real culprits." she paused and frowned slightly. "Look, if you're that against it, then maybe you should just stay here this time."

"What?" Gavin blinked and quickly shook his head. "No way. I'm still going with you, Penelope. I just... have some doubts."

Olivia snorted and leaned back on the palms of her hands. "Yeah, we all know that already Gavin." she snickered, causing for the male knight to shoot an annoyed glare at her. 

"Alright.. Well, anyways," Penelope continued, ignoring Olivia. "we'll be leaving in a day. We're supposed to meet with Crow then too."

"A day?" Olivia groaned. "You couldn't have given us a little more time to rest before we have to leave again? I'm tired and all that walking is so painfully dull."

"We have thieves to catch. We can't waste days relaxing." Gavin pointed out. 

Penelope looked over at him and nodded her head in agreement. "He's right. Sorry Olivia but we've got to track them down before they strike again. I'm certain none of us would want to be on guard duty before we catch them after all." The female knight shuddered as she recalled the morning after the thieves had attacked the camp. The image of Millicent's body popped into her mind and she quickly lowered her gaze to the ground as she felt a familiar stab of guilt. Even though she did not directly cause Millicent's death, she still felt terrible for having been the one to put her in that danger anyways. It had been her guard shift after all. 

Feeling a hand rest comfortingly on her shoulder, the knight looked back up to see Gavin looking over at her with a softened expression. "Right. We'll leave in a day then... Hopeful we'll find something in Wheldrake.." he mumbled with a small sigh. He still seemed reluctant about chasing after the lead they had found but Penelope did appreciate that he was finally willing to go after it now that they had returned to camp to find nothing of use. She knew he likely still believed the criminal responsible was Crow but still held onto a small hope that he would change his belief once they got closer to finding Jaxon.