The group eases into a small clearing where sunlight breaks through the branches in soft patches. The town noise falls away to leaves, birds, and the faint creak of packs being lowered.
Bren sets the provisions on a flat stone and rolls her shoulders loose, finally out from under the market’s eyes.
Nhal shifts shape beside the trees, her form settling into something quieter, like mist with a spine of light.
Slaan
No pursuit. Just trees, wind, and a little room to breathe.
Slaan stands half-turned toward the trail, watching the horizon with a calm that does not quite leave her shoulders.
Bren
We made it out clean. That feels worth noticing.
The clearing holds steady, warm and unhurried, as if waiting for someone to speak first.
✓ Quest Accepted
Settle the plan for the journey
“I check our provisions and divide them for the road. "This should hold us until we reach Leilon, it's another mining town. Two to four days away "”
SUCCESS (Legendary Reasoning, rolled +2)
Kynes kneels by the stone and spreads the provisions into neat road-piles, sorting by weight and reach.
Kynes
This should hold us until Leilon, two to four days away.
He divides the food and waterskins between the packs, trimming the heaviest bundle down until no one load drags more than the rest.
Bren
That is better. It looks like a road plan instead of a stall haul.
Nhal watches the piles, then gives a small, approving tilt of her luminous shape as the distance becomes a shape they can carry.
Slaan
Leilon, then. A clear destination is easier to share.
Bren ties the last strap, and the group’s attention settles on the same forward line beneath the roots, quiet and decided.
Quest Complete
Settle the plan for the journey