<div class="floatright">(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/6b/5f/d3/6b5fd36a5b475af394692ec0b3d92495.jpg)</div><div class="floatleft">(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/a2/77/dc/a277dc4a4e16dfd02e520ca62dd49e8d.jpg)</div>Layla looked completely baffled.  She had feared the worst.  It shows she is confused when Darius looks to her.  Of course, she would not know,  a concubine this was not her life.   Darius then leads them out of hiding and approaches the blacksmith Tajun.<br/><br/>Tajun listens and nods.<strong>"My daughter just finished feeding them.  She was going to brush them.   Didn't expect you to be up yet sir.   Most city folk sleep late.  Harsha bring the horses."</strong>He address Darius and then call to his daughter to bring the horses.   He grab the saddle of Darius mount.   Once his daughter brings over the horses.  He would put the saddle on and cinch it into place for Darius.<br/><br/>Darius usually did not get this treatment.   It had to be the slave, the concubine he is escorting.   For him to have a slave such as her.   Meant he was a man of importance or at least deep pockets.   Whether or not he left a tip was up to Darius.<br/><br/>With the two of them mounted, they would be on there way.  With the farmer waiting for the plow blade,  the blacksmith and  his daughter watching them leave the small farming community.<br/><br/>Passing others on the road going back towards the way they have come from.    One thou is going  the same way.   He comes up on them fast as he has his horse in a gallup he passes the two of them.   Gets about 100' from them.  Stops and looks back at them.  Letting them get halfway towards him.  Before Darius can call out to him.  He wheels his horse back around and takes off in a gallup.   Disappearing over the top of a hill the road ahead.<br/><br/>No other incidents occur that day.  Not when the stopped to rest the horses at midday and not afterwards leading to the evening and them having to make camp for the night.