<span style="font-style: italic">"Does anything stick out to you?"</span><br/><br/>"Moe's neck." Ilia mumbled under her breath. "Light! You'd think she was a green the way she was acting." The comment made Ilia fluster. She was a green and Shadow-No, Ilia. Keep unsolicited thoughts from your head. She told herself. She stopped before demure looking rusty colored mare. It looked healthy and seemed to be built for endurance over speed, but how would she know? "You think we'll get so lost we'll have to<span style="font-style: italic">eat</span>our horses?" Ilia was admiring the mare with a hand resting at the v of her neck. "I like her. What do you think?" She looked up to Shadow and listened to his opinion. "I think I'll name her Copper." Ilia said with a self satisfied nod. "Will you pay the man after you've picked out your own? I'm going to go across the street and look at some cloaks for the two of us."<br/><br/>Ilia didn't really wait for him to reply, she simply wondered out of the barn and towards the street. Across the way was a clothing shop with a few gowns and spend cloaks on display. A man holding ribbons on a tray began calling to Ilia, but cut off with a cough when he noticed her servant ring on her right thumb. Ilia simply ignored the man, she felt it would be better to pretend she didn't hear anything. She crossed the street and looked at a few of the cloaks on display. A young woman came out to meet her and ask if she needed help. Ilia spoke with her a few moments before going inside the shop and returning with a thick, gray fur lined and hooded woolen cloack. Ilia touched the fabric, inspected the hemlines and quality. It was nicely made. She spoke with the woman again, motioning with her hands describing Shadow's height and the broadness of his shoulders. The woman touched her chin in thought before returning into the shop.<br/><br/>While she waited, Ilia admired the gowns in the window. The embroidery was absolutely beautiful! And Ilia bent to closely inspected the technique of a few of them she hadn't seen before. As the woman exited the building, Ilia straightened and met her to look over the matching cloak. There were some words exchanged before Ilia wrinkled her nose and shook her head. The woman seemed to flounder for a second on a reply and then Ilia smiled and nodded her head. The woman looked relieved and went about bundling up the cloakes and tying them in brown paper with twine. Ilia reached into a pouch on her pelt and handed the woman some coins before looking about. She plucked a few young men from a circle and spoke a few words to them. The three of them gave awkward bows before waving a farewell to their other buddies and shuffling behind Ilia, who handed one of the bundled to the first unfortunate man in line.<br/><br/>Ilia looked at a few smaller items in the shops nearby as she waited for Shadow to rejoin her. She came upon a jewelry shop and went inside. The three men milled about near the entrance discussing everything from the weather to the latest rumer about the False Dragon everyone was talking about. Inside the building, Ilia was looking at a few of the lockets nestled in velvet. Keeping the orb's size in mind, she chose an oval shaped locket that had fine scrollwork along the edges. "That's perfect!" Ilia exclaimed and gave the man some coins in exchange for the locket. She slipped it into the red, silk purse, with the orb and exited the building with a wave at the shop keep. "Oh, Shadow!" She waved over to him and met him halfway. "Are you ready to look at some boots? I found you an exceptionally well made cloak! I even got a discount." She seemed extremely proud of the fact. "It's fur lined! It'll keep you nice and warm." What Shadow didn't know and what Ilia was trying to keep hidden was that she had every intention of getting Shadow one of those color shifting cloaks for when she bonded him. She wasn't sure when it would be, but she wanted him to have one when she did.