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To the Lone-Lands



Cisel leaned against the barrels in the Pony, her gaze turned to Aeonid as he ordered her ale.  The room was full and fairly loud, people drinking and laughing.  Friends sharing a conversation, and even people who were less then friends spoke to one another.  The sound of the room, the people, the smells, they all led to Cisel spacing out even when she did not realize it, only to snap back into reality as she noticed Aeo asking her a question; ‘You want to go?’

She blinked a few times, having no clue what he was asking her about, which was a typical thing for Cisel to do.  Eventually she shrugged with a nod and a, 'Sure.'

As Aeo handed her a drink, Rhianonn approached the two and smiled.  She greeted the two, and Cisel's mind began to space off once more as she turned her gaze around the room.  Aeo and Rhianonn spoke, but Cisel tilted her head as she turned her gaze to a nearby group, gathered up in a huddle and talking.  She wondered to herself how people made so many friends.  So many people who were friendly to one another.  Cisel could not understand it.  Even in her youngest year, she only really had one close friend, and now most of her friends traveled off to their homelands only to be seen from time to time.  

A soft frown crossed her face as she then realized, most of the time she was not even in Bree, perhaps that was the reason for it, yet even when she lived in Bree for years, she on- 

Her thoughts were cut off as Aeo held a gold coin in front of it. Cisel took the coin, looking at it as the lights of the fires around them caught the metal, causing the coin to glow softly, her silvery grey eyes to reflect the colors of the coin.  For a moment, she stared at the coin, it still remaining foreign to her before she held it back out to Aeonid.  She had know clue what to do with the golden coins, even though she did technically have thirty-two gold coins at that point.  So she merely handed every coin to Aeo.

He pulled his coin purse out from around his neck, dropping both Cisel's and his own in as he laughed, ‘Forgot I held all of your coins.’

Cisel nodded as she laughed, and Aeo nodded to Rhia, ‘I will leave the destination with Barli for you if you need.’  He then ruffled Cisel's hair, ‘Let's get going lass.  Got a long journey ahead.’

When Aeonid turned to walk towards the door, Cisel blinked.  Wait... where were they going