Merame froze, giving Yifa the most<em>wonderful</em>deer-in-Lunar-light expression<em>ever</em>.  She couldn't have believed it possible for Yifa to hear what she had tried to say so<strong>quietly</strong>.  "U-u-um, w-w-well...th-there was this c-caravan in from Ch-Chiaroscuro, a-and..."  Her stutter was caused by equal amounts of surprise and embarrassment.  Yifa would have heard of Chiaroscuro from Arianna.  It was one of the major cities of the South, a region as hot as the North was cold.  A land full of wild and interesting things.