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Myrika is by Kiri!
The tawny woman had never seen these lands when they were lush and green, but her grandmother had. Even so, the scarred woman, too, did not seem to recognize their surroundings. Myrika was not surprised -- it had been many years, and moreover, it had all been burned to ashes. In the far distance, she saw the hazy shapes of mountains along the coast, though the land between here and there seemed flat and utterly endless, dotted with only the smallest evidence of regrowth here and there.
Eira's sides were wet, but they dried quickly enough with their movement. Still, Myri would take care to make sure all the horses were well-tried, along with their saddles and any other equipment that might have been dampened in their trek across the river. She wondered where they would camp, and began thinking of Inferni and her house in the Great Village. She was sure the clan would be cared for well in their brief absence, of course, but the tawny-hued woman still worried, however faint that worry was.
I guess those are the old mountains, the old woman piped up, gesturing vaguely toward the rise of land in front of them. When compared to the Halcyon range, this was more a gathering of hills than real mountains, Myrika thought, gazing over the rises of land with suspicion. There ought to be a pass there, too. Almost cut right out of the mountain, the woman mused, shrugging her shoulders. Can't say just where it is, though. Everything seems all backwards, and I still am not sure we're even in the same place, for how different it all looks.
Myri wasn't particularly worried, despite her grandmother's misplaced sense of direction. They had Ibsen's eyes in the sky, and failing all else, they knew which way home was -- that was easy. A failure in this venture was not particularly catastrophic, Myri thought. Disappointing, yes, but it wasn't as if they were coming out here to recover some great treasure of Inferni -- and even in that hypothetical, if they'd gotten along without it for that many years, they'd continue on without it just fine, too.
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