“Can we get to our destination like this?” I had to shout to make myself heard.
“No…” Ren answered shortly and bluntly.
I thought so…
“Then…should we find a place to get out of the rain?” I asked hopefully.
“There should be a cave somewhere in that direction,” Ren said as he pointed forward in the direction that we were headed.
“How do you know that? You’ve been here before?” I asked curiously.
“Yeah…I didn’t think we’d have to use that cave to stay the night though,” Ren replied smoothly.
“Stay the night?!” I exclaimed in shock.
“Of course. Did you expect that we’d spend the whole night in the rain?” Ren retorted sarcastically.
I didn’t want to get into a fight so I decided to just shut up and face forward, not that I could see much up ahead.
“We’ve lost them. Fortunately,” Ren muttered more to himself than to me as he slowed the horse down to a trot.
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