[Dawn]

I should get a move on. Lei thinks, opening her eyes and standing up, the skirt of her dress falling down around her ankles. She still wore the garb of her people from time to time while traveling, it made more sense that way, most people didn't bother with someone who looked gypsyish. I have a way to go and I don't wish to spend the night in the forest.

Picking up her bag and taking her staff in hand, she begins taking the path that leads out of town to the forest. She had noted many travelers coming through and she had hoped many of them had already gone through ahead of her. She was not in the mood to be holding any friendly conversions with anyone, she had been taught in many tongues besides English. It had been her mentor's idea that she had learned a few other languages.

"Why Lei, what sort of mage would travel this world without knowing more than English? Your going to run into many different people and many different cultures, at least take the time to learn about these. It shall help you in the future when your out there on your own, in both winning respect and friends." her mentor had laughed.
"Who says I want to help people in the future." she had fired back at him, her eyes dark with rage and hatred.
Her mentor had smiled one of his mysterious smiles, "Cause like or not, humans will always need some sort of interaction with other humans. It's in our genes and the sooner you accept that you can't change that, the better off you will be.

And so far, the other languages she had learned had never been needed. Stopping to get a drink of water by a nearby stream, she pauses to see a fire with fish cooking that had been left unattended.

What sort of idiot leaves a fire like this unattended? Locating something to hold water in, Lei douses the flames, noticing that whoever's fire this was had left items around, so they must of been planning on coming back. Glancing at the now cooked fish, she shrugs and takes them, no sense leaving them to sit here when there was no clue how long the person would be and she was taught not to waste perfectly good food.

Munching on one of the fish, she leaves the campsite and continues her travels.