[ And because it seems important to her to feel useful, he does what he can to give her small chores around the tent that he's staying in, or through the camp. Yun Song is an officer: it is easy to keep up the facade without her getting suspicious. Of course, he won't have to hide for very long now.
On their second to the last day of traveling, she and the other children will notice that they appear to have lost daylight permanently. The landscape also appears to have shifted into something else entirely, reminiscent, perhaps, of some of the paintings the girl may have seen in the castle of her Masters. She will have a word for it later: ukyo-e, an art form known in a country called 'Japan', on the Prime Material Plane. All of the flowers glow where they are, right down to the Dawn's Promise that she gave him on their first real encounter. The stillness of the air is, as well, too often broken by the howling of wolves.
Said wolves start coming out of the shadows to join the contingent once they're on the main road, on the very last day of their travels through the outskirts of the Lightless Lands. They stare at the children with an intelligence that betrays their form, but make it clear to all of them that they will not harm them. Some, in fact, seem to really like it when the more daring girls and boys reach out to pet them.
One wolf is walking up to him now, head tilted.
MY LORD?
You've sent word ahead, I hope.
OF COURSE.
Now he's turning back to the girl, just to see how she is taking all of this. They're going to reach the capital soon. The buildings, in fact, loom in the distance among the swirling clouds and luminescent petals. ]
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On their second to the last day of traveling, she and the other children will notice that they appear to have lost daylight permanently. The landscape also appears to have shifted into something else entirely, reminiscent, perhaps, of some of the paintings the girl may have seen in the castle of her Masters. She will have a word for it later: ukyo-e, an art form known in a country called 'Japan', on the Prime Material Plane. All of the flowers glow where they are, right down to the Dawn's Promise that she gave him on their first real encounter. The stillness of the air is, as well, too often broken by the howling of wolves.
Said wolves start coming out of the shadows to join the contingent once they're on the main road, on the very last day of their travels through the outskirts of the Lightless Lands. They stare at the children with an intelligence that betrays their form, but make it clear to all of them that they will not harm them. Some, in fact, seem to really like it when the more daring girls and boys reach out to pet them.
One wolf is walking up to him now, head tilted.
MY LORD?
You've sent word ahead, I hope.
OF COURSE.
Now he's turning back to the girl, just to see how she is taking all of this. They're going to reach the capital soon. The buildings, in fact, loom in the distance among the swirling clouds and luminescent petals. ]
We're almost home.