The innkeeper directed Rayne back to the outdoor stalls, where a map of the jungle could be had for 50 gp. As the transaction concluded, the storekeeper NPC said out of the blue, "If you're looking for a quicker way to travel, I've heard that the flying beasts of Greenspire make great mounts - if you can tame them." It was a random rumour, meant to create plot hooks, but it was still fortuitous timing all the same.<br/><br/>The map showed three ways for Rayne to get to Port Lannis. There was the Melangwi river, if she was able to travel by water somehow or use the river as a guide for travel by land, though there was no trail on the wild riverbank. The sun was approaching but not quite yet at its peak, so they had only been on the riverboat for a few hours at most before meeting the dire crocodile, and judging by the count of bends in the blue squiggly line on the map, that was about right. The second way was the overland route, which more or less headed straight for the port and diverged from the river, as the river curved away in a roundabout fashion before the water and land paths met in Port Lannis in the end. The third way was to head in the opposite direction, even deeper in the jungle, to make for the Greenspire, a spire of vegetation-covered rock protruding from the trees and pointing into the sky, and there to tame a flying beast and ride it to her destination.