"Come on Princess!" I shouted outside Zierra's room and gave her door a few taps. "Irit is going to take us at least two days to get to on horseback!"
Her door swung open and she shouldered her travel pack as she glared at me, obviously not amused with the nickname I had chosen for her. "Horseback? Since when do you have horses?"
"Technically I don't, but the stable master does. We saved his horses from a barn fire a couple of years ago and now he loans us horses when we need them."
"Of course he does," she sighed and followed me to the bar where Kari had placed two sacks of food for our trip.
"You two be safe out there. That thing in Irit could be any number of things," she shot me a glance and leaned across the counter to poke me in the chest a few times, "so no showing off. Got it?"
I swatted her hand away and grumbled. "Yes mother."
