The journey was strenuous and long, his hands glued onto the pull tie that connected to the horse's bit.
Reo, he called it. Reo. The horse that was.
The horse had been stealthily pulling the humble wagon he owned for a little over two years since he purchased it on a mud road. He had gotten into the habit of trusting his horse more than he trusted people, which had disturbed his ability to converse with humans and instead began murmuring about with animals and things of the like.
He was headed to Lamia, alone on a wagon full of things he was meant to trade at the market, or better yet transport to the market since he had been just a traveler who dabbled here and there with the trade. It had been bothersome, going from city to city, always on the road and sleeping on the cold wood floor of his wagon or next to his horse by a fire. He couldn't remember the last time he slept on a bed, a month maybe two?
His memory was a fog and he simply just wanted to make passage through Lamia peacefully.
To some he was a mercenary trader for hire, to others an adventurer, and to the common few perhaps a stoic man with a dangerous aura that followed him everywhere. But Amentes was a quiet man who didn't like to think much of anything and he simply just got by in life, never staying in one place too long- never getting attached to people, and almost never trusting anyone other than his horse for betrayal had been a wound that forged haunted his heart.
The sun was beginning to set just a little low, and the cityscape of Lamia was yet to come to view he estimated that he was perhaps a few hours off since he made passage by the river as said to by the man from a few towns over whom gave him the map. Perhaps two hours of the next day?
He was awfully too tired to contemplate anything and he knew Reo could use a break.
He halted his horse with a slight tug of the pull tie, Reo let out a whine before settling down.
"We'll make camp and rest. It's not safe traveling at night." He whispered to the horse kindly, patting him ever so lovingly. Releasing him from the pull tie as they made themselves discreet from view.
He looked to the sky, a brilliant darkness illuminate with small stars, it was nights like these he hated, nights that felt like they'd go on forever.
"Tonight will be a long one."