After breakfast then, Burgomaster Kemp stands and leads you outside. From the front porch of his rustic house, he indicates the assembled gear and says, "I've ordered for you trail rations, skins for water and wine, rope, spikes, lanthorns and oil, bedrolls, and packs. Take whatever you think you may need."
While the burgomaster speaks, Farmer Bedan shoulders a pack of his own. As soon as Kemp falls silent, he takes the opportunity to jump in: "We'll be well-stocked for this little hike, we will, says I. Of course, since I'm only taking you as far as the hills, I s'pose it's more you than me what'll be running into all the trouble." Bedan smiles, but his cheerful manner is belied by a nervous shudder and a grim wince when he mentions the Burning Hills.