A gloomy autumn day

Tina steps outside into the chilly, damp autumn morning.

A wind is blowing, but thankfully her layers of fine clothing is keeping her warm, for the moment. In her hand she holds a small sack lunch she liberated from the kitchen (it was actually Morgala's. She had packed it for her own trip later today).

"Today I take my first step into the real world. Not as a rich, smart, and super-pretty girl, but as a knight and a woman," Tina says with great determination.

The beautiful blonde closes her eyes, takes a deep breath, and sets out. She pauses after the first step, as if expecting something terrible to happen to her, then she cautiously opens her eyes. Seeing nothing is amiss, her bubbly personality perks back up, and soon our noble lady is skipping down the road like a giddy school girl.

"This is going to be so great!" Tina says aloud to no one in particular.

The knight-to-be starts thinking about her quest. It's nothing too difficult. She's just supposed to travel to Sorga, a small trading community three towns away, and escort a merchant named Jammy? Jora? Jorella? It started with a J. Anyway, mama wanted to meet her. Tina wasn't really sure about the details, mama tended to over-explain things, so Tina had gotten accustomed to tuning her out.

Tina continues to skip along down the increasingly muddy road, her mind lost in her own thoughts. Which probably isn't the best course of action, given her fairly restrictive attire.

She was wearing fine boots and britches of course, but had chosen to put a long skirt on over that (mama and daddy were always very concerned about her modesty, and insisted she layer-up whenever she went out. 'You never know what could happen!' They'd always tell her, not that she believed them).

Of course, her long skirt was now starting to accumulate mud from her skipping, and was becoming heavier by the moment. Why, if she were to lose her footing...