The afternoon sun shone on as they bypassed the village and came to the road north. It would take them a day and a half to reach the next village, and two more to get to Pyxis. From there, who knew where they'd go. Feather rode thoughtfully, her eyes looking at the three men who rode with her. The Kiraha had a point about their features.

She had spent most of the ride trying to prove that the Kiraha was wrong. There was Tynan, with his constantly untidy dark brown hair, and dark eyes. He looked the oldest amongst all of them, particularly now that he hadn't shaved in the morning. His cheek bones were high and his jaw prominent. He looked such an elemental man.

She let her gaze drift to Arumshade, who was engulfed in the book, making bits of notes on the sides and occasionally muttering to himself. He had ridden into trees a few times untill Tynan just had the man's horse follow his. Arum was blonde and blue-eyed, his chin a little more pointed and eyes a little wider than Tynan's. His face was boyish and youthful where Tynan's was matured and hardy. Hm.

Adam had the typical face of a child, all large green eyes, high cheekbones, round cheeks and small chin. But the similarities to Tynan and Arum were there. The boy had Tynan's hair color and facial features, no wonder people mistook them for father and son. But he had Arum's open personality and a strange way with people that was all his own. She frowned. It was too odd to be a coincidence. Why hadn't she noticed it before? Probably because they were all so different personality wise, that could have blinded her.

"Is something wrong?" Tynan asked after a while.

She blinked, pulled back from her thoughts. She nodded to Arum, who was reading, oblivious. "Is he going to be alright?" she asked.

Tynan chuckled. "I think he will be," he replied. "He must like books alot." He grimaced. "I hate to say this, but he's probably smarter than he looks. He's the only one who can point us in the right direction to the Stone."

She looked at him questioningly.

"I can read - stop looking at me like that. I just don't have the love of the chase of knowledge that he seems to posess. That's probably why I'm barely proficient at herbalism. I used to read to get by - I remember my Kiraha of the Oaks had a long talk with me about that."