The journey towards the southern road took the pair of them a while, the road was rough and long, the path twisting and turning wherever it was inconvienient to do so it seemed. Old fields and abandoned farmsteads laying here and there, and the path leading towards the south mostly empty.<br/><br/>The two of them made way for a few hours in peaceful quiet, until they came near a farmstead where they could see a bit of smoke rising from the old chimney. It was off the roadside, but within sight of the road, atop a taller hill. The fields around it were untouched, uncared for, and many of the one-floor building's windows were boarded up, but some smoke was certainly rising up there.<br/><br/>The halfling woman seemed to not have paid the surroundings attention but the smoke caught Marric's eyes there. There was also an old wagon along the road ahead, crashed on its side<em>on the road</em>instead of having been pushed off the road. It lay there, making the road pretty hard to travel with carriage or larger wagons till they would be moved out of the way.