Ridahne meant to stay up late and carouse with her peers, but her body had not forgotten the fact that she'd been traveling all day to get there. She fell asleep in a padded chair beside Ajoran, who eventually woke her so they could move to a proper bed. He always thought the beds were a bit too hard and distinctly remembered that Ridahne had once felt the same. But he knew the road must have changed her definition of 'hard', because she had no complaints now, and slept as though she'd been given a cloud to lie on. She did wake once in the middle of the night when a pair of taja came in from their shift. She jolted upright with a soft cry of, "Darin!" and managed to get her knife about halfway out of its sheath before she calmed down and realized they weren't bandits or worse. She wasn't used to sleeping away from Darin and it worried her a bit to be so far from her, but she reminded herself that the palace in Tasen was one of the safest strongholds in Astra, and the Red Hand's arm would have grown long indeed to try and reach her there.

She and Ajoran woke at sunrise, took a moment to groom themselves and make themselves look presentable, and then headed out to the mess hall for some breakfast. They found Darin already eating and joined her. Ajoran lacked the shoulder sash and silver collar that lay over his chest that he'd worn the day before, though the silk sash around his waist that secured his dark blue uri was still a milky ivory. Ridahne had on the same blood red half-shirt and gray, beaded uri as she had the night before. The pair of them seemed almost regal now that they'd both bathed, had fresh clothes, and rested. Ridahne still wore the harness that held her two blades behind her back, however, and it kept her looking as dangerous as ever.

"Hope it's not too spicy...I tried to work you up to the usual level," Ridahne chuckled between bites. She'd been nervous about seeing Khaltira the night before, but now she seemed calm, cool, and resolute. She knew what to do, though the wasn't sure still how things would happen when the moment came. But it needed doing. So it would be done.