A full day, it had been, since both Jared and Jones, embarked on their journey. Nothing much was said after Jared's crack up, likewise had nothing much been done throughout.
From goodbyes said to Calistus, the men back from the field, as well as those who had remained instead, as reserved guards for his home, and suffered all the way in, and all the way to the end of the raid, and the maids too.
Except for those who still are in recovery. Either they slept through the relatively large crowd that bid them farewell, or heard in their chambers, however, unable to move their weak and battered bodies down the hall and to the outdoors just so they desperately could be a part of an adventure that signifies a newly found hope for the Astrians.
Jones remembers that day, not long ago, fairly well
