They didn't talk for the next half-hour.  Trall had his own troubled thoughts to deal with.  He shouldn't have let himself say what he'd said.  Selyna was his friend, too..not just the creature stuck with taking care of him.

The dragoness, for her part, said nothing, not even glancing at him.  He could never be sure just what she was thinking...She could be letting him think about what he had said, she could be thinking about it, she could be hurt.  As far as he knew, she could be thinking of where she'd go after he was gone.  Selyna was strange that way...practical, controlled. confusing.  It was hard to say anything for sure about her.



Selyna was more bothered by his comment than she wanted to be.  It had hurt, had cut deeply, as comments go.  Her silent treatment was a punishment, from mentor to boy.  She wasn't the type to let her emotions dictate her actions; no, the boy needed to learn to control himself.  On the other claw, he was very right with his words.  And that ~hurt~.  

After about fifteen minutes, she decided she'd waited long enough to say something.  They were on a rather steep part of the road, heading upwards.  They'd spent the last day in a very hilly part of this forest; she didn't know exactly where they were, but knew it ended soon.  And near the end was the small village that was their destination.

It had been a long, long time she she'd last travelled through these woods.  The village had been small, placed by a river.  A fishing village in the forest...filled with kind people who'd been more than willing to take her in in a time of need...her, a youngster of a species no one was familiar with...

Of course, none of those humans were still alive...humans lived such short lives...

She looped back over herself, a manuever not uncommon for her, using the opportunity to look at the boy next to her, with a look of misery on his face, while pulling ahead of him.  She opened her mouth to say something.. 

It was she who reached the top of the hill first.  And so it was that she saw was lay ahead first.  And stopped dead.