After walking as silently as possible through her fatherâ€™s hunting grounds Piper finally stopped to get on her horse, â€œKeep Baucus at a trot until we reach the end of the grounds by the sea cliffs. From there we will head south for a while through the woods until we hit the main road.â€ She got up onto her horse expertly after speaking quietly, in case anyone was nearby, to Balthazar. They had walked silently for about fifteen minutes and every once in a while she had looked back to make sure that Balthazar had been following her. She had to hold back a laugh as well since his horse had been messing with him most of the time and making him have to work at getting the horse to follow. In fact at one point the horse had stopped altogether to graze at some long green grass growing from the base of a large tree.<br/><br/>On her horse now she looked down at Balthazar and waited patiently for him to get on his horse, â€œWe can go down the road Iâ€™m talking about until we reach where we had ended up after we found the egg.â€ She added as she eyed the slight rounded bulge in his pack for a moment where the egg rested, wrapped in a blanket, â€œFrom there we just use the map.â€ She did not add that she knew little about any side roads, country roads, or any other road/path that did not lead to any of the five major cities. Her interests rested more on legends, swordsmanship, rare artifacts, and treasure. It was kind of ironic that she wanted to be an adventurer but had not studied any real maps. She did, on the other hand, study scriptures in a lack side kingdom in the East that told about the dragonâ€™s graveyard. Which she expected and hoped they would be going through when they got to the mountains. It was there that she would become more useful on this trip instead of just being the one with all the coins.