Alina had made it almost out of the main castle area when she heard a shout behind her.<br/><br/>"Whoa!"<br/><br/>She pulled on the reins and turned to look over her shoulder at the boy who ran her way. She'd seen him around...Casper? That might have been his name, but he worked for one of the "sorcerers," and Alina tended to steer clear of them. Still, the boy seemed nice enough, and she'd been told he was a couple of years younger than her.<br/><br/>Smiling at him, she realized that he moved in a strange way for a young boy. Almost as if he was trying overly hard to be masculine. Still, she wasn't going to make assumptions like that. Instead, she simply nodded and gestured to the empty seat next to her and held the horse still.<br/><br/>"Aye. Casper, is it not? I'm Alina."<br/><br/>She held her hand out to him in order to assist him in mounting the cart, and then clicked her tongue before snapping the reins lightly. The horse spurred into action, and the cart rolled over the ground...seeming to hit every bump and hole as it did so.<br/><br/>"I'm just going to the village in order to buy some fish...and get away from the castle for a bit. Where do you need to go to?"<br/><br/>She looked over at him and noticed that he had a very delicate bone structure and face for a boy. Maybe he just hadn't gone through puberty yet.