Ridahne smiled, satisfied. "Good." She intended to teach Darin everything she knew, but she wasn't sure what her experience was. She really had no idea what farming was like, as she was from a fishing village and also the desert. Farming did happen in Azurei, but not in her region. Atakhara was right between the sea and the Dust Sea, as if the beach just extended on inland for eternity. Fertile land was not something she was used to. While Darin built the fire (quite well, Ridahne had to note) Ridahne set out a waxed leather bowl-like container to catch rainwater and brought in her saddle and its bags so it didn't get soaked. She set it down and, with the roar of rain building outside and the fire blazing heartily, she took out a little wooden box with ornate carvings and paint. Inside was a set of differently shaped bone needles--too large for sewing--a container of the fragrant balm she'd put on Darin's shoulder, and three smaller containers with blue, white, and black contents. Her tattoo kit and her blades were the most prized things she owned and she kept good care of both. Ridahne pulled up the leg of one of her trousers to expose an unfinished tattoo in black ink. She rinsed it in water, then dipped a fine bone needle into the black ink and began to rhythmically poke the tip into her skin, stopping every few pricks to dip it back into the ink. "Well..." she said with a resigned sigh, "I guess we'll be here a while then. Want a tattoo?" The little smirk on her face said she was joking...or at least mostly. She wasn't about to just slap one on her right there and then--it was something that had to be considered and thought about first. Her hands were steady and practiced--she had decades of experience tattooing. Mitaja, also keen to stay out of the rain, curled up behind Darin but with her large head still in reach of Ridahne's hand. "We have a practice in Azurei when you meet someone new that you are trying to get to know. It's not a revolutionary concept but I like it. You tell me something about yourself and in turn you get to ask a question about me. Yes?"