Lunari was swift and efficient in breaking down camp.  She shoveled dirt over the last of the embers and then kicked the rocks away from the fire pit to make it look less obvious that they'd been there.  Then gathering the horses she strung them together so that each in the group could ride a horse with a second horse trailing along behind.  Apparently at some point in the night, the women had gone and gotten the four horses from wherever the hunting party had left them, leaving the trio with a total of six horses.<br/><br/>Lunari moved swiftly and efficiently and was done long before Nirael was.  Though he could hear Mara and Lunari speaking softly nearby as he finished.  Packing up his spell book and standing he saw the two women, eagerly looking to him.  One lithe, deadly, cloaked in that black armor with her dark lavender skin and white hair, and the strange loincloth of magical material.  The other an almost direct opposite.  Fair skinned, dark hair, and with clothing that was little more than shredded leather armor, stitched together to hold for now.<br/><br/>The three of them mounted up and walked the horses back to the road turning south, heading for Yanyek, the trading town to the south.  It was Mara who finally broke the comfortable silence,<strong>"So this demon, he wants the half of the artifact that master Nirael carries.  But what does it do exactly?"</strong><br/><br/>Lunari shrugged,<strong>"My father never told me, he said that it wouldn't work in the hands of a woman.  More that it would only work for someone that it was 'meant' to work for.  Whatever that might mean.  But that he feared that the demon would somehow corrupt it, use it despite it's intended purpose.  I don't know what that purpose is, but a few times I did hear him refer to it as a 'key'.  All I know is that my father hid it from the demon for years, my whole life, and trained me to find the man who could defeat the demon Marada and reunite the artifact.  If he felt it was that important, I can not question it."</strong><br/>