Navia had eventually drifted back to sleep, it had not taken much for Théadan to lull her back int her dreams, and so the night had gone by peacefully, with them switching around who slept and who was on guard until the sun came up. The fire was extinguished shortly after, and after packing everything they were back on the road. Théadan felt tired from the restless night, but his time in Mes'Mo'Tan's army had long since acquainted him to dealing with being short on sleep, Navia on the other hand did not seem quite so used to it. Her usual bright, perky and playful self sedated for a more grumpy demenaour. Between being tired and nursing a bruised shoulder, it was understandable. When they came across a village he could see that mood darken yet a little further for how the Khluri looked at him, speaking amongst themselves about their passing. They did not linger in the village for anything more than a meal, doing their best to avoid the trouble.<br/><br/>Their journey through the jungle would take some time, it was more difficult to make good time compared to the forests of Mes'Mo'Tan, the paths here were more winding, and not nearly as open, often the horses had to slow to a casual walk while they navigated their way through, but at least they were on the right track now, passing by others throughout the day. Fortuitously they did come to a break in all the jungle, an area where there was an open field for them to make camp in during the evening, and it would be beneath a single tree standing out on its own that they would make their camp under. Again Navia was the one to tend the horses, while he worked on setting up the camps fire, getting all the sticks they would need, enough to see them through the night this time, and a couple large enough to use as torches should they have need to scare away the local wildlife.<br/><br/>While Théadan had busied himself with lighting the fire, he noticed Navia was not yet done with Varinata, watching her curiously as she created a long lead on the reins. She expressed a desire to work every day with Varinata, wanting to build up the trust between her and them so there would be no repeat of what happened with the leopard. She guided the horses into a walk around her, wanting to recreate what happened with the leopard so they could train her further. Théadan watched on curiously, his brow wrinkling in thought. She was of course right to want to train her not to do such things, but they were lacking the equipment for what they needed, and he was unsure how they could replicate a predator attacking them again for Vari's benefit. "Unfortunately the only ways to frighten her like she had last night that I can think of, would be counter productive to what we want." She would see them scaring her after all and that would just make them less trustworthy. Vari needed to see them both as people trying to protect and help her, that they were all part of the same family looking out for each other.<br/><br/>"In Mes'Mo'Tan, when we trained with our horses, we had as many mounted soldiers as we could get all training together. All making lots of noise." It was always unsettling for the horses at first, many growing restless, stamping their feet, some rearing up wanting to leave as the noise of soldiers training around them went against the status quo they were used too. "To some extent we could recreate the chaoticness of a battlefield, make our horses used to that, and if we wanted to help them be more calm in battle, we would have fully armour clad soldiers come charging up to us as they would in battle so they would learn not to turn and flee." There was always a limit to how much preparing you could do for the horses, but it definitely helped them be more reliable in war. They would not quickly turn and flee at the side of hundreds of men screaming at each others and trying to cause harm to one another. "There was a lot of repetition, but it did eventually pay off." They didn't have anything that remotely resembled a leopard, and nothing that would make Vari scared without her associating it with them. Théadan was stumped for ideas how to help in that regard. "I don't think we can really recreate the leopard for Varinata, but we can further our bond with her, that will help with trust." He laid down the last sticks on top of the fire to get it going properly before standing up and walking over to Navia's side, curious to see if the Khluri had any unique ways of training their horses that he might see just from watching her.