Jhessail greeted her cousin with a smile. With Aysia along, she felt the first part of the journey would go well. Few knew the woods as well as the druids, or were more at home there – a fact made all the more clear by Aysia’s state of partial undress.<br/><br/>“Though I wish we were seeing them under different circumstances, I will look forward to it. What are – no, let them be a surprise. I like surprises. Usually,” she clarified, thinking of some of the things her father had surprised her with in the past.