Duncan chuckled at the reaction of Alana towards Flower.  It was evident that she loved animals.  Once they reached the barn Duncan and the others lead their horses in and placed them into stalls and removed their saddles and made sure they had food and water before unpacking clean clothes and large towels from saddlebags.  They would brush the horses down after they got their baths in the stream.  Duncan walked beside Alana as they walked down to the stream.  "I can tell ye not being much agreeing with this arranged marriage.  I am not much pleased me self with it but like my father I am.  He supported the King and so will I.  Me thinks we should get to know each other some since we will be traveling a ways together before getting to the highlands."  he told her.  Indeed he figured it would be best to begin things off right and find out what kind of temperment his wife to be was and for her to know what he was like..<br/><br/>"I know ye have heard stories of us Highlanders as we have heard stories of the Lowlanders.  Some may be true and some just made up.  I will begin by telling you some about me self.  As ye know I am the Laird of me clan, the McClouds.  I inherited the leadership of the clan when me father died of an illness.  But he made sure I was ready for such a thing while I was growing up.  I have been schooled by priests in Latin and French and in history and writing, and mathmatics.  Me father made sure he brought in tutors that would teach me the proper manners of being a leader and the courtly ways of nobles.  Though even with all this education I still managed to enjoy my life growing up and got me self into many fights and troubles along with me cousin there Angus."  he grinned.  "I love to hunt and do so when ever I can.  Not for the sport of it, but to put meat on the table, for myself and for other families as well.  Though the trill of the hunt is something as well.  I do not suppose ye know how to use a bow.  Many of the Highlander women do and some are better then the men with it.  They also use the bow in battle when the need arrises."<br/><br/>"I can tell by the way you look, ye like working in the fields, and by the look in your eyes ye have a mind of your own..  We Highlanders are a hard working people but we are also warriors, trained to fight from a young age to defend our lands.  We not be uncouth and barbarians, though we do war among the clans at times.  We love life and make the best of it and live it to the fullest.  Me thinks it time for you to go back."  he laughed.  "Unless ye like watching men undress and run around naked."  he grinned widely as the men began to remove their clothing.  He left her a ways away from the other men and walked down to the stream removing his sword and tartan and his shirt, laying them on the ground by his clean ones.