Soon enough, the pitter of rain surrounded the humble hut from all sides. It began almost too softly to hear, but over the course of an hour increased to a loud, but oddly peaceful drumming. Dick found himself asleep before he knew it.

His dreams where a collection of images shadowy, disconnected and without logic. A river. A peanut flying through the air. A rainbow. Fire. A house. 3 piglets. When Dick awoke, he could barely remember any of these. It was still dark, but the rain had stopped. However, it was chilly and humid, even indoors. If he had to guess, it would probably be a half hour before dawn. The druid looked around the hut, not feeling like getting up just yet.

Kira slept, as she always did, void of dreams, locked in deep slumber. Her raven would caw and nestle in her hair but Kira did not move until the suns first light broke through the canopy above. Her eyes fluttered opened and she stretched like a cat would waking from a long nap.

When Kira awoke, Dick wasn't there, but his walking stick was laying on top of the fur he had slept on the night before, perhaps as a symbol of 'I'll be back, so don't get your knickers in a twist.' In any case, he left the door just shy of being completely closed, so a sliver of dim orange sunlight pierced through the opening.

Dick would return in a bit less than half an hour from when he left, covered up to the knees and elbows in a thin layer of black mud, carrying an arm load of miscellaneous herbs, nuts and fruit looking things that seemed to blur together.

"I didn't want to look through your stuff, so I went out to find some breakfast." Dick said, an ear-to-ear grin on his face.

Kira looked around and shrugged to herself as she noticed that Dick was no where to be seen but his staff was there, or was that a walking stick? It didn't matter. Rising she went to packing up her things so that she was prepared to leave when the time was right.

Caw

"Yes, yes I know," Kira grumbled. Turning as she heard the door open she placed her hand on the hilt of her blade just in case. Once she saw it was it was Dick her hand fell from the blade.

"I see that, it looks like you found much out there this morning," she said as she finished folding up her dark leather tarp and shoving it onto her pack.

"I'd be more concerned if I couldn't find much. Witch puts down a hut in a place where there's nothing to put in your potions and I have to travel with that? Wouldn't be a good omen, that." Dick's eyes flicked over to Kira's knife hand for an instant, but did not acknowledge it anymore than that. He walked over to the fur on the rug and crouched to pick up his stick, careful not to spill the food all over the flooring.

"So you ready to go?" Dick asked, twirling the walking stick in his open hand.

"Ready as I will ever be it seems," she said as she hetfed her pack onto her back and grabbed her walking stick. The raven swooped down and perched on her shoulder.

Caw

"We're both ready, lead the way," she said motioning towards the door.

"Alright then, let's go!" Dick took a few confident steps towards the door but suddenly stopped in his tracks mid-stride. Slowly he turned back around to face Kira, a solitary nut jostling out of place from the pile and clattering on the floor. His brow was furrowed, expressing that he had maybe started to do things without thinking them through first.

"We should probably eat before we leave, should we?"

Kira looked over to Dick and shrugged before reaching over and taking a small handful out of what he had gathered. Handing a single nut to the bird perched on her shoulder before popping a few into her own mouth.

"We can eat while we walk," she said before turning on her heels and stepping outside of the door. "Come on, from what little you have told me it would probably be best if we just go ahead and get this over with. come on mooseman, lead the way."