"Lead us to them, then, please." The centaur looked at his back, counting the carcasses of the strange animals, and then, seemingly satisfied with the count, turned around and began to move toward the mountains - the direction from the group initially came.
The pilgrimage through the wasteland has begun.//NPC: Akk the Centaur joins the party!Prince Aliberti followed after the centaur, and Rosana after him, and others after her. Akk did not question the humans further, and the royal siblings didn't pester him either. The silent pilgrimage amongst the heaps of ash and dust and rocks wasn't followed, nor there was anything watching them.
Only once a feathered lizard reared its head from between the rocks, hissing at the humans, but Akk wasn't interested in hunting the little beast. The lizard got bored and scurried into safety of the hills after some time, anyways.
The mountains grew closer and closer, but there was no saying how long they were walking. The sun, dimly silver disc behind the thicket of clouds, remained in its place, not edging even the slightest toward horizon. Was it an hour? Was it five hours? Who knew.
Then, the eagle-eyed Ayzebel could see a large cave entrance at the base of one of the mountains, and a small grey tower, blending and hiding againgst the background of the hills just west of the cave. The centaur continued leading them toward the cave, not paying mind to the tower.
"Did I miss anything interesting? When I entered the hall, most of people were looking as if they saw a ghost or something of the kind."
