Thankfully, the rest of the trip was without much incident. They ran into a couple of monsters here and there, but overall, nothing the guards and the Saviors couldn't handle. The lush forest that hugged the road they were on never darkened the way it did before.
Thus, during a morning so bright and comfortable that even as tired as Kaori felt from not getting as much sleep as she usually did, she grinned out at the gates ahead, when she realized they had arrived.
Wow... She thought. Pearl. We're here!
"We made it!" Kaori pointed ahead, looking at the others.
"In the end, we didn't get our flesh bitten off by some monstrous, ravenous beasts. Hooray," Vermia said with barely any emotion as she got out of the carriage. Kaori, however, interpreted that as some genuine relief on her part.
