On a broad path.
"Did you mean what you said earlier?"
Hulu asked the Professor, his face glued to the direction of where they were all headed. The Professor shot him a side glance and looked away. He must have been joking to think that the fellow had forgotten such thing.
"It's not the question of what I meant or not. The queen and especially her women expect a lot from me. What would you had expected me to say?"
He asked, letting the words roll by. He hated to think that Hulu was holding a grudge against him because of such little a thing.
There was a brief silence enthroned between them. The Professor, Hulu and her princess were the one leading the group. Directly behind them were the urban folks who had volunteered to assist. And at the last part, at the extreme end was a group of the stern looking women.
