<div align=justify><font color=teal>Dia passed the paper to Ethra absently. "I don't know how long it'll take to hatch...Ryuugami knows, I'm sure, but I can't exactly ask her..."
She sighed. "We might need to go to Rook Lok as quickly as possible...the quickest route is straight through Riva, which will take about a week. But..." Dia paused, her tone and expression displaying clearly that she didn't care to pass THROUGH Riva. "It'd be a
lot safer to skirt around Riva, avoiding dragoons and such...even though that'd take about two weeks..."
She shook her head. "But we don't have to make that decision till...Middith?" Dia looked surprised, suddenly reconizing the mention of Robert's hometown. It was a small little village, but...almost directly north of Doma capital, and right along the Rivan border.
"Um..." Dia looked down at her hands, and then up...to the side of Richard's head. "...Whenever you're ready to leave...I guess..."
She felt a little rushed for some reason...like there was some outside force hurrying her on this task. The rest of this group could feel this, too, particularly Richard, Ethra, and Raptre, and only to a lesser extent Deeum and Daenj'r...</font></div>
Edited by: pd Rydia at: 3/31/03 12:03:31 am