They had been traveling nonstop for the past few days trying to reach the warm Lowlander coasts, and as the afternoon turned into a calm evening, the warrior could finally smell the saltiness in the air... So, he smiled. They were almost there.
It had been a long trip back home, but they would be arriving at the city gates the next day at most and this made him feel a little less anxious about his family's safety at last.
After spending the last couple of hours deliberately playing the villain and mercilessly urging Souna to keep pressing forward even when they could not ride his feline at the moment, as Kohu had gone on a much-deserved hunting break, but they still needed to go on just the same… He had silently taken note of the orange hue that painted the horizon and mentally began s
