A five-day trip took us seven days as we were not used to walking for so long, Lulu especially. We spent all our downtime trying to figure out how to read again. It was painful, but Lulu did it! She overcame it and started understanding her book by day five.
On the other hand, I could only read simple words and phrases. I hate to say it, but if not for the pictures in the book, I would have been left in the dust by Lulu's newfound wisdom of magic.
But our long and gurgling journey was coming to an end. We had reached the massive walls of the city Ezor told us to go to.
"Halt! What is your business here in the grand City of Vestful?" one of the guards in a full suit of armor said, pointing a spear at us.
"Knock it off!" another guard with only a chest plate said, and hit the other in
