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she might find interesting.
    “What on Tomiro did you find?” Tark asked,
rubbing the sleep from his eyes.
    “A ferret.” Galena retrieved the tiny
creature from her bag and placed her in her lap. “I think I might
have a new friend.” She grinned broadly at the funny, little
creature.
    “Where did you find it?” Elenio asked in
wonder. He stared in amazement at the tiny creature. “There haven’t
been ferrets around for centuries.”
    “She was tangled up by a dead log over
there,” Galena said, pointing in the direction that she had found
her new little friend. “I think I should call you Twoit, especially
if you’re willing to come along for the ride.” Galena held the
ferret up so that they were face to face. Twoit nibbled the end of
Galena’s nose in response. “Then it’s settled, my little friend.
Welcome to our small group, you’re in for the journey of your
life.”
     

 
    Chapter
Six
     
    As the days wore on, a new routine developed
for the traveling trio. They rose in the morning, stopped for lunch
around noon, practiced, and then continued on until late in the
evening where they would find a relatively safe place to spend the
night. Their supplies were beginning to run low, so they searched
for berries, roots, and other edible plants along the way. Galena’s
back was tired from carrying a large pack and her legs throbbed
with the amount of walking that they had done so far, but as they
still had several days before they would reach the nearest village,
she tried not to complain, a feat that she struggled with
daily.
    Twoit had taken the lack of meat into her own
tiny paws and whenever she woke up, which was surprisingly not very
often, would scamper along behind the group, catching whatever
small prey was around. Galena had decided to let her new friend
inside her pack with the top undone, so Twoit could take in the
sights as they went along. The little creature often times decided
to curl up in the pack and sleep whenever she needed rest.
    Galena grew increasingly more nervous the
closer they got to the next village. Unsure what to expect, but
hoping for the best nonetheless. In Tomeka, they would get
travelers from time to time, but not often enough to feel
comfortable in their presence. She feared that they would know
their reason for coming and turn them over to Rau in hopes to avoid
his anger. She had talked to Tark and Elenio about it along the
way, but they both felt that she was overreacting.
    As the days passed, she continued to practice
using magic. She had grown two more trees without the rooms built
in them. She felt this had been where she had gone wrong the first
time and expended so much of her energy. With the lack of a room,
she was able to grow a magnificent oak and a large plum tree that
had produced several hundred ripe plums. This had proven to be
extremely helpful with their current food situation.
    “I don’t know why I didn’t think to grow food
before now,” Galena said as they filled their packs with the fresh
fruit. She shook her head in a bemused sort of way, unable to
believe that such a simple idea had not occurred to her sooner.
    “We’re all getting used to your magic. It’s
not something that we’ve had before, so we don’t automatically
think of it,” Elenio said as he shrugged.
    “Now that we know what you’re capable of, it
will make us a lot less dependent on other towns. In fact, I was
thinking that maybe we should go around this town. We could
possibly gain a small advantage against Rau. He wouldn’t know where
we were going or where we’ve been,” Tark said while he began to
climb the tree, for some of the fruit at the top was larger than
the pieces within hands reach.
    “Not this town,” Galena nearly shouted so
that Tark could hear her from where he was. “I think we should at
least stop at this village, the others we can go around. It’s
important to see if anyone has heard of our fight.” If she was
being honest with herself, she