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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Boddynock" data-source="post: 3720434" data-attributes="member: 21506">The morning passes uneventfully. Shacks and shanties on the outskirts of the city give way to farm and grazing land. The road is well maintained, and they pass a light but steady stream of traffic going the other way. Most are wagons, some obviously other traders, and some farmers with produce or beasts for sale.A group of dwarves, clearly adventurers, clad in dented mail and carrying notched weapons, march determinedly up the highway. They are weary and batte-scarred, and grim of visage. They do not respond to Allistra’s hail, or to the greeting Milak calls out to them in Dwarven. He leans out to watch them as they pass, then spits into the dust. “Glaikit gits!” he mutters in disgust.After six hours of steady travel, the sun is directly overhead and the city is a good twelve miles behind them. When Allistra calls a halt, Jendral and Milak rein in the horses, set the wagons’ brakes, and jump down to tend to the animals. They unharness the giants, and the other horses, and lead them off to tether on a running line beneath a stand of trees, where there is fresh fodder for them. Perhaps mindful of their skittishness earlier in the day, Jendral grabs a handful of the food which has meanwhile been unpacked and settles under the trees with his charges.Milak likewise helps himself and sits leaning against a wagon wheel. He eats noisily, spitting out bits of gristle and drinking periodically from a small flask he takes from an inner pocket of his jerkin. You get the feeling that he’s not a very sociable character.“Help yourself,” Allistra says. “There’s no standing on ceremony.”“We’ll rest here an hour, then go on. It’s two and a half days to Allimon, so we should be there by noon the day after tomorrow.”The food is typical road fare - hard bread, some type of jerky, dried fruits and small beer. There’s a small stream not far from the road - probably the reason Allistra chose this place to stop.</blockquote>

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