In the Air, Along the Path

Packing up early in the morning before the sun started to show the three get an early rise. Grabbing a few food supplies from the kitchen before their host had risen. A bag of coins for payment, and on their horses for the short journey ahead. With Aric’s Run nearby Faervel proposed a longer day today to allow them to be within a day’s trip on the morrow.

By the time the sun was up with the dew showing the grass they could no longer see the old tavern in sight. Old forest surround them with dirt and rock floors and overhanging green shading them for what will be the rest of the day.

A few hours past as they sit to eat and rest the horses. Silence of the natural world with birds chirping and small wild animals scavenging in the distances. Horses ate a few apples and some grains while the three munched on some day old bread and greens they found in the kitchen earlier in the morning.

Bang!

“What was that!?” Jane jumping from where she sat exclaimed hearing that strange noise from up above as a large cloud goes over them. “Is that a thunder cloud?”

Robert grabbing hold of a raised tree trunk nearby skeptical and fearful of the moving object “Can’t be must be something else.”

“No, it is a human airship heading to Aric’s Run” Faervel unfazed and composed by the whole episode.

“Airship?” Jane and Robert both question the existence of such devices.

Faervel knew all to well the purpose of one coming this way could mean. Only trouble for when men in the cities brought those contraptions to Aric’s Run. “You two are far away from mans’ larger cities and remain untouched by those contraptions. It is something us elves feel are unnecessary and the cause of much strife among the old peace papers. They have caused an imbalance on these lands that troubles all.”

“I have never heard of such things grandpa” Jane feeling lost as to how to feel about such things she has never experience or heard of.

“I had heard from traders of such things, but rarely did I believe the man would or for that matter had such abilities to create something like this” Robert proclaimed staring up as the airship left their vision with only a growing distant faint of noise leaving for Aric’s Run.

Faervel gets on her horse “Quickly pick up and lets head out we still have plenty of sun out to make it to Aric’s Run tomorrow.” Robert and Jane both followed command, and got going with the three horses running at full speed for the rest of the day. Tomorrow they would be arriving at Aric’s Run to see not only the Human made Airship, but also the alliance.