Teft spluttered into his mug, regurgitating the mouthful he'd been quaffing down, as Lora managed to stereotype an entire gender as some kind of sex addicts. He didn't even... With some difficulty, Teft managed to regain his composure, saying nothing. How could you even respond to that? Fortunately, they didn't dwell, and the conversation soon moved on to his offer of tutelage. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Lora was the only one who seemed to take it seriously. Marcus no doubt deemed such underhandedness beneath him, and, judging by the foot probing his thigh, Camilla was far more interested in flirting. He shot her a scowl. Pretty as she was, he didn't much appreciate being toyed with at the dinner table.<br/><br/>"I can think of a thing or two you might benefit from learning" he shot dryly to Camille, before turning back to Lora and fixing her with his trademark glower, the one that he seemed to think was a smile.<br/><br/>"No point mucking about then. We'll go for a stroll, after we're done here. I reckon those two are gonna be otherwise occupied by then anyway..." He gave a meaningful glance at Marcus and Camilla as they snuggled up. If they wanted to fool around, that was fine by him, but he had no intentions of hanging around like some sorry cuck while they did.<br/><br/>Teft noticed Marcus was quick to jump to talk of spoils, despite his claim that he lacked no interest in them. It didn't seem as if he'd given any thought to navigation or logistics at all. Fortunately for them, Teft had. Last thing Teft wanted to do was get lost and stranded in the middle of nowhere.<br/><br/>"Let's not run before we can walk eh? If it were as easy as finding an old map, and wandering back there, Elua would have been long since stripped bare, not some hellhole associated with peril and legend and fuck knows what else. If we're gonna do this, we need to be realistic, pick our way inland carefully,  and make sure we ain't so blinded by the prize that we don't know when to turn back. Now, I know of a few expeditions that tried following the old roads, but by all accounts they aint up to much anymore, so I reckon our best bet is to follow a waterway inland, that way we got fresh water, and a real good landmark to follow. Pick over whatever we find on the way, so if we gotta turn back then at least we won't be totally empty handed."<br/><br/>Might be a bit pragmatic for them, but being dead rich... well there wasn't much point in that now, was there?