Enjoying the steady pace and the company, Darica chats here and there with the others as they travel.  Staying in the rear of the procession about 25' behind the others, she fanned herself occasionally with big thick branches she snapped off from overhead and nearby trees.<br/><br/>"Tell us more about yourself Ella, wasn't it?  How is it that you come to be traveling to Thurmaster and in such urbane garb?"