<i>''I will never leave you, as long as you will never leave me..."</i><br/><br/>It were those words that would comfort Eponine when she would wake from one of her frightful dreams again. She would brush away the tangles of blue hair in her face and crawl underneath the oddly warm cloaks of her friend and saviour. He would wake up with the smell of honey and roses tingling in his nose, and the warm skin of the girl curled around his legs as she huddled up in  a bundle underneath his clothes. She would find safety there, and safety is all that she wanted in this world. There was nothing left of the hateful and resentful remarks of the faitful nun. And she seemed to be very recourceful, a great cook with herbs and different kinds of berries. He had even made her eat a bite of pork once, and she had tried to sneakingly steal some more in the hopes he would not notice how much she loved the taste of it. Yet she continued to say it was evil to kill things with a soul, she had grown used to it, watching him skin and prepare the animals he slaughtered for his meals.<br/><br/>Eponine hardly thought about her life in the monastery anymore. Ever since they had left the little village of the Vulpari people, they had travelled off-roads, trying to reach a certain village near the sea that the elven woman had told them about. They would find a way to cross the ocean, and Eppie had not thought about anything else since. She was anxious about seeing the sea, wondering about it's beauty. It's vastness. She had not stopped talking either, most probably annoying the Ramen with her never-ending questions about the world. She really did, seem to want to know everything there was to know, and yet there was no end to her own knowledge gained from books.<br/><br/>''Did you know that there are more edible fish in the sea, then creatures on earth, if you do not count the bugs off course. You can eat bugs you know, I would never want to eat bugs, but some people have. When food is scarce, like it is in the dessert, the only way to survive is eating bugs. Do you think we have to eat bugs when we reach Gha'mos? I've read it's half of the continent is made up out of desert, and the other half is a mountain with blood-drinking trolls and giants that will crush your skulls on the stones when they see you. And there are humans too, they drink your blood and can only come out at night, and there is skin is as pale as the moonlight. Have you ever seen them? ''<br/><br/>Despite the girls continues rattling, and the fact they were making a great time in travelling, it would not be hard to notice the strange sound of flapping wings overhead. Nor the shouting commands and rough callused voices of warriors in the air. Eponine turned pale white as she fell to her knees, as she had been instructed so many times by Razor when they would hear danger, and hid herself in the bushes of the forestfloor.<br/><br/>''oh no.. oh no... not now.. please.. please...''<br/><br/>The girl began to whimper again, almost bursting out in tears when the shadow of a great monstrous batwinged creature flew overhead of them. They were lucky they hadn't been seen yet, nevertheless, they needed to take caution of their next steps.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>