Karen watches harach go past her position, the neko girl lagging behind the recently much larger group.<br/><br/>Being the village's only mage is a position of some prestige but not one that involves a lot of forced marches to keep up with dragons, hence her inability to keep up, besides she has other reasons to keep her distance.<br/><br/>She's come to the conclusion that her book doesn't contain any true combat spells but she might be able to improvise using her other ones, combat and non combat use for magic as flexible as hers is just a matter of interpretation it seems.