Mave munched her cheese thoughfully. Very glad to have a local guide who could point her to a barn that was safe to sleep in. In the morning they would see about horses. Steal horses most likely although she was reluctant to do so. The peddlers who had come for Beltane in this village probably had horses and they had fleeced the villagers badly enough that Mave didn't feel too bad about taking their mounts with a silver mark or two as compensation after the fact.

"You saved me if you remember," she told Ali with a smile, though in truth she could have killed the three men easily enough, but she wasn't comfortable enough with killing nor brazen enough when it came to the oaths to risk it if she didn't need too. She adjusted herself against a hay bale considering the man she had become entangled with. What wild rumors were flying around his village she didn't want to know. Absconded with some foregin trollop most likely. Evelyn would be furiors and she would be surprised if Valerie didn't raise a party to pursue them, although with luck the obvious road was north. According to the map she had purchased from the peddlers there was nothing south except a village named Emond's Field and that she planned to skirt to keep closer to the river. 

"Ali, I know this is a strange question, but do you have any idea why the fade might have been interested in you? At first I thought it was following me, agents of the shadow did try to stop me in Caemlyn, but the more I think about it, the more I think it must have been after you. A single fade wouldn't have been a threat to me alone."