The fact that the simple meal she prepared for the ex-captives cheered them up so much pleased her greatly, and the warm meal helped renew her strength, if making her feel more drowsy than she already was. Still, Vaeri manage to keep herself together on the long walk back to the village, although she had a few close calls with eyelids that shut and did not want to open again. About halfway though the trek, she remembered that she had forgotten to don her cloak after discarding it for the battle and quickly rectified that mistake. When she arrived in the village, she assisted all the people from the wagons.

She then turned to the inn, walking into it, vaguely registering faces as familiar from early that morning. Glittering coins were pulled out from the coin pouch at her hip and deposited in front of the innkeeper. He understood coin well enough and handed the elf a room key before directing her towards a room upstairs. Vaeri found her way inside the room and locked the door behind her. She dumped her bag off of her shoulders, leaving it to sit in a lump on the floor before walking over to the bed and falling onto it face first. She didn't even bother to take off her armor before she passed out asleep.