As they exit the hall gora heads to her room by herself and sits on her bed without saying a word. Gora taking the spear from off her back unwraps its and looks at it. In a matter of weeks she will have killed someone with this weapon. She slowly wraps it back up and heads to bed resting comfortably in the soft bed after weeks of travel. This is a luxury she will soon not be able to afford for quite some time and she pns on enjoying every st second of it.
She peacefully ys in her bed, she had no need for a bnket as the pace was always abit warm. Gora joked to herself its because of how hot headed the astrans are. But she knew it was most likely a combination of the amount of fires they kept around the pace and the fact it was mid summer. The pace was never dark just outside the room underneath her door gora could see a glimpse of light.
The halls were thoroughly decorated with candles. Just another flounder of their great wealth as the forests of Astra’s nd are plentiful with hives.she falls asleep into the night knowing the future would only bring hardship.
The morning comes softly like a warm wave. She awoke not suddenly but guided by her dreams to the new day. Looking towards her wrapped spear she slowly gets up and gets prepared for the new day no matter what it brings.
Gora makes her way out of room with all of her belongings knowing very well she may never enter that room again. She looks around for sir cofus and sir rex while wandering around trying to find a pce to eat. She thought about asking the blue haired servant but felt bad associating with her.
Finally after some odd couple of minutes she finds whats looks to be a fine dining hall. After entering the grand hall she looks to a line of people lining up to get food. After waiting in the line for a bit she looks around the halls and spots rex and cofus eating at a table with two other people. Gora smiles and move her way over to them.with her tray of food. She sits next to rex at the end of the six person table cofus would be across from her.”so were heading out today then? That’s why all these people are gathered here right?”
Gora says before stuffing her face with her food. Rex looks at his new junior commander and does his best to force a smile”yes gora by high noon we will be traveling towards the battlefront. I’m gd you have an appetite because this might the st good meal you get for the next few weeks. The eastern regions of the potami river are sparsely poputed and our only supplies will be from what little we bring and what the vilgers can afford to give us. Which im afraid most likely will not be a lot” rex says to the eating chieftain princess
Gora stops eating and looks over to the two people sitting at the table chatting with cofus. She had a feeling she met one of them yesterday but couldn’t say who the other one is.”uh huh that really sucks captain but i have to ask who are those two?”she says pointing at the two.
Everyone at the table looks around each other before the four of them chuckle abit. Which Seems only irritate gora abit smming her fist onto the table”hey don’t ugh its a serious question!”
They nod and stifle their chuckling ,trying to regain their composer. Cofus looks gora in the eyes with a grin and gestures towards the two strangers”of course im sorry dy gora you’re right its quite odd you don’t know the people you’ll be fighting with yet. This gentlemen to my right is Sicus Messor astra our musical aid.”
gora remembers now Sicus was the skinny man from before that was pying the strange lute called the pandura . his hair was barely speckled with a few red hairs gora could see what looked to be the body of his instrument strapped to his back.”and this lovely dy is Arvus Messor astra our scout”
Cofus introduces the dy while looking at her with a smile. They both wave to gora as they eat their food. Arvus seemed to be a slender woman with a bow resting on her back and only a single row of hair seems to have that signature astra red. Gora unsure waved back to the two”your two are both Messor’s. you two are reted then no?” gora ask the two.
“Yes were actually siblings dy grigora”Sicus says as he finishes the st bit of his food
As everyone else finishes up rex stands up.”gora i see you have your stuff good that’ll save us some time we’re to head out as soon as possible so once were done here well head to stables to get on our mounts and meet the st two members of my squad”
Gora nods and finishes the st bit of her food up not leaving a single scrap. She then quickly stands up looks at rex with a big grin on her face”OK then lets get a moving then we have an invasion to fight off what are we doing standing around here?”
Gora and the others make it to the stables to retrieve their mounts, Gora smiles looking upon her trusted steed again. A beautiful horse that had yellow patches of fur on its mane while it wasn’t as luxurious as a dragon this rge war horse wasn’t anything to overlook . she hugs the beast neck before attaching her stuff to it and getting on.
The beast patiently waits for its master to mount it. Once gora hops on its waits to follow her every command. Gora looks over to the other members of the party rex looks at them all”OK everyone we need to meet up with utum and secomi at the eastern bridge”
rex shouts out to his crew. Once they do make it to the bridge they find around 200 people moving through the area at this moment. Its likely that they’ll be traveling with these people for a minute as they make their way to their defense positions
Rex spots his two men waiting to the side of the road away from the main flow of crossing soldiers. Cutting through the natural flow of traffic they make their way over to them rex smiles as he sees the st two men of his unit.”gora meet utum omin astra”
He gestures to a behemoth of a man with flowing red stripes of hair mixed with his long bdes of bck hair. a set of javelins are mounted on his back as a rge shield is tied to the side of his lizard mount.”and that is secomi”
The giant smiles at gora waving at her seeming very happy to see her. He then gestures to a man with a saber attached to his side. He only had one red swirl of hair on each side of his head giving him the appearance of having little red horns.his eyes loom with intensity as he observes gora like a hawk but says nothing only acknowledging her presence with a simple raising of his hand for a half assed wave. Gora looks at these men with a bit of fascination they seem quite different than the other astrans so far.
As they get close enough to talk she looks at the astrans in front of her but says nothing before looking away. Not one to stand around and gawk gora looks toward rex”so this is everyone then rex? If so let us proceed to the bridge.”
rex nods and moves his mount to move that way. After they cross the bridge rexan takes the lead the group is now heading to some of their most western regions. Gora gnces around at her new comrades; these are to be the people she is trusting her life with. She didn’t say anything to anyone fore abit enjoying the view of the countryside of the river valley. There were crops all along the road; she thought how funny it is that the luutons were always raiding her and the lisads empty grassnds and yet they had yet to raid the fruitful nds of astra.
