Lukas nodded in response to the elderly Swordmaster's orders, he watched where his assigned partner, Peredur, placed the written message.  With a nod, he moved out towards where they had been told horses would be left.  Noticing that Peredur kept pace with him, he watched the young man out of the corner of his eye trying to gauge the sort of person he had been paired with.<br/><br/>Nodding as he listened, he kept an eye out around them both and tried to stay to the shadows.  In a very quiet voice, he said "Well, there are basically no mountains where I'm from.  Romney is pretty much surrounded by plains and rivers as far as the eye can see and then some."<br/><br/>As he was walking, he started thinking about the orders.  It was apparent that something of great importance was happening if messages were being sent surreptitiously through multiple routes to the magician's island of Stardock.  He knew nothing more, but he knew that somehow he'd got involved in something bigger than the court politics he was usually exposed to.<br/><br/>As they approached the gate, strangely unattended, he moved through very slowly and warily.<br/><br/>"There should be someone with horses very close to here."