<div class="floatright">(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/f9/33/85/f93385f08616fa201dd67a2eef73ecc5.jpg)</div>After Selise gave her acceptance that the fruit was edible, Vara grabbed a backpack out of the cart, then moved back to the tree where she'd gotten the fruit and filled the bag up with about a dozen of them.  After grabbing one for herself, she set the backpack back in the cart, "Here you go," either not recognizing that the backpack wasn't hers or just not caring.<br/><br/>Her lithe and dextrous legs let her keep up easy, hurrying some when she had to get off the path, but mostly just able to outpace the donkey most of the time.<br/><br/>As they reached the Frax-side Trade Road, she moved on back.  "I recommend we take the road, but just be cautious," she said.  "Trying to bring the cart off-road won't go very well, and we should be able to at least mostly handle ourselves for an ambush.  If they find us before we find them, they'll have the edge in a fight, but it'll mean we don't pass them by, also."<br/>