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The mountain soon leveled out, and beyond it, a small river wound downhill, a scattering of trees around its bank. The trees provided some cover, and when they checked, there were a handful of caves on this side of the mountain, each one large enough for the four of them to sit in somewhat comfortably.
"We should camp here for the night," Nero suggested, seeing how exhausted they all were and how darkness would soon fall over them. Reyna had woken up sometime during their climb over the mountain in the afternoon, and she had torn a part of her dress and wrapped it around her head to stop the bleeding from her injury.
"I'll start a fire," Theo said, jogging off to fetch some firewood after he set Reyna down carefully beside a large boulder. Adaria sat quietly beside her, staring bl
