"I know we planned to travel by night to escape the heat, but we're into the shaded woods now so it should be much cooler by day. Besides, isn't it better to overheat a little than to risk hurting ourselves and the horses tripping at night. If we can make it to Apple Glade by midday tommorrow, then I'm all for going on. What does everyone think?"
Rika rides over next to Planus.
"I don't know much about places outside Orussus. I've always lived there, you see. There are quite a few of our kind in the city, but I don't know that much about where else our people live. I remember some stories in my family about leaving a city called Beryl to come to Orussus. Everyone says it was ruined soon after we left, but I don't know what happed there. It might have become that Rivenblight place, though. The lady in the woods you mentioned was probably a druid. Many kinds of magics change your shape like that, but i think druids do it the best."