Talbot nodded as Ridahne mentioned keeping together at night as Darin scowled at him. She knew perfectly well that it was safer to keep together. It was just sometimes she didn’t want to and felt that it was wiser for both their mental and physical stability to spend some time apart. She didn’t need the warrior telling her that, and she didn’t need her horse agreeing with her. Still, she wouldn’t complain out loud. That would just start another argument, and she didn’t need one of those this close, or this soon from leaving, The Farm. She was trying to be better. She had to be better. Despite what Ravi said she wasn’t magnificent. She had a hard time believing that she ever would be.

Darin just nodded at Ridahne, “Of course, safety first.”

Though Darin rather suspect that it was a moot point. If they continued her training odds were that she would be too exhausted to storm off after. She wasn’t sure, but she was still willing to bet that it was true. Besides, if she really needed to get away from Ridahne she could probably climb a tree. She wondered of the warrior knew how to climb trees. Darin knew that the Elf had grown up in a desert, but she had seen a few trees in Azurei. Not many, and they didn’t look the same as pines and oaks, but Darin still saw them when she had been part of The Tree. Darin wasn’t sure and she wasn’t going to ask either.

Instead she said, “If you wouldn’t mind talking to me in Azurein. The Tree gave me a gift as we were leaving, but it will still take practice to learn how to use. So, I would like to practice while we travel; if that’s alright with you.”

Darin didn’t see how it would be a problem though she was still trying to wrap her mind around the fact that she had understood Ridahne when she used the Azurein word to refer to Ravi as “Sighted One.” She had picked up on the fact that it was a different language which caught her off guard. She had imagined that it would all sound the same and she would have to practice telling the difference between languages. That hadn’t been right at all. Instead she knew it had been Azurein, and she had been left scrambling to mentally translate for a moment. She figured that meant she needed to practice knowing what had been said and mentally processing the words. Darin also thought she might have to practice speaking the various tongues as well.

So, she took her time to see if she could make her request in Azurein, “I will have to speak to many, many people on this trip.” She was saying the words, but she could tell that she was butchering the cadence, tone, and pronunciation/ It made her cringe, “So, I need as much practice as possible if you can help. Please and thank you.”