Zellira laughed at the little princess, who had dropped her lithe frame onto the ground in front of the fire. The stars shone brightly as Zellira cut a thing strip of the meat and positioned it on a spit fashioned out of sticks over the fire. It would cook faster this way. Then Ristina could eat, and sleep for a few hours at least. The sun would rise, and Zellira hoped they could run. She had the feeling she wouldn't be able to sleep until they reached safety. "I'll smoke the rest while you two sleep" she said to Ristina. Her yes flickered with a old fear, and a desperate hope before going blank again. A few long minutes of silence passed, Zellira's head filling with thoughts of shadow and danger, a single light of hope in her mind that would come with morning light. She only snapped back to reality when the thin piece of meat she had stripped of the beast filled he air with a lovely smoky scent. She unhooked it from it's wooden spit, dragging it to the end of the stick and handing it to Ristina, smiling slightly at the little princess's enraptured face. "Looks like food is early!" Zellira exclaimed, smiling as she saw her two friends faces, one old friend and one new. One sleeping, and one soon to be. Perhaps they were safe for now, in sanctuary, for a short time at least.