Derowynn was awoken by a pair of soft warm lips touching her cheek. Opening her eyes, she saw Elizabeth looking down at her. A bruise was on her cheek with a few scrape from where she had been hit, but otherwise she had a grin and looked to be feeling better. "Good morning, Sunshine. How is that head of yours feeling today?" Elizabeth just shrugged a little and smiled, "It is still throbbing a bit, but I think I will live." Derowynn smiled and leaned up to kiss Liz.
The two crawled out of bed and cleaned up and got dressed. Poking their heads out of their tent, they saw a fire blazing and Waverly, Clarke, and Amasis all sitting around it talking quietly and cooking food. They gave the couple a smile as they came from their tent and Dero and Liz went over to hug Clarke, seeing she was back. Derowynn sat next to the girl and cuddled tightly to her as snow was starting to fall again. "How did things go, Clarke? I am assuming you all made it back alive and destroyed the cup?" Clarke nodded and told the two women the stories she had been telling Waverly and Amasis.
The food was done and they were all eating when the rest of the group started to file out of their tents. Derowynn had almost forgotten about the minotaur and jumped a bit when she saw him emerge from his tent. Taurus let out a snort and then went a bit deeper into the wood and could be heard relieving himself. The group giggled a bit as the large beast came back and plopped to the ground, picking up a plate of food.
Vadik sat next to Amasis, his head with hair sticking every which way leaning against the large man. Davi brought out her blanket and cuddled next to Waverly, wrapping the blanket around them. The group ate and told their stories of what happened the past night and when done they realized they could make their way home back to Isengard. A new surge of energy came to them as they packed up camp and then plotted their course for home. From the looks of it, they could make it back to the inn run by Waverly and Clarke's mothers in about two to three weeks if the snow didn't get too bad. From there it would be another two week trip to Isengard itself.
The first leg of the trip was more or less uneventful. There were some small run in with some of Aborjan's men, but the group noticed that these men were more or less traveling back to where they were going. No doubt there was no longer a reason to keep his army scattered to guard things that were no longer there to guard, so Aborjan must have been bringing his troops back home to consolidate them for the fight he knew would be soon coming. Vadik did not like this. He knew the longer that it took them to get back and launch the attack against Aborjan, the stronger Aborjan's army would be. So he had the group move quickly. Some days they went two days before stopping to rest and sleep.
They finally found their way to the village and were standing at the door of the inn. It had taken them just shy of two weeks to make it. Waverly was about to open the inn door when it burst open and Mother Ginger came running out, wrapping Waverly in a bear hug and kissing her cheek. "You're back!" she exclaimed as she saw the group and then stopped suddenly when she saw the minotaur standing in their midst. Clarke came up to Ginger and hugged and kissed her, "It's fine, mother. He's with us." Ginger just stared and nodded a bit, "Well, alright then. Come inside then and get yourselves warm and some food in ya." They didn't need to be told twice. The group entered the in and made their way to the main room to get something to eat.