She heard the man's voice in her ear, she didn't move. Her eyes glanced down at the knife point that poked at her injury. She cringed in pain slightly, keeping her calm about her. She clicked her tongue in annoyance as the man judged her skills, she didn't even bother to look at him, her mind still a little numb from the pain. She finally looked up toward the man as he strolled into the night. She felt like she hadn't been paid at all. [i][color=ed1c24]The firecrackers.[/color][/i] She thought. The man hadn't given her an- She instinctively rummaged through her coin purse. There were a few coppers missing, but she felt something else in her fingers. She smirked, chuckling a little and she pulled out a small firecracker. It was a small cylinder, which she knew contained gunpowder amongst other material. [i][color=ed1c24]As sly as ever.[/color][/i] She commented inwardly. She rummaged through her coin purse to count how many she had, but her fingers fell upon a larger coin. A heavier one at that. The face of the smiling man and the frowning man. [color=ed1c24]Two sides of the same coin..[/color] She scoffed. 

-----6th Stretch-----

By the time the caravan had left the Depot, Megumi had spent the majority of her time gap looking for a place to hide. She had a plan, she thought it was good enough to work. If she could find a good tree. As luck would have it, she did. Quite decent. It was tall, the branches were thick and the foliage even thicker, a perfect place to hide. A thick branch hung over the road. She looked at it from different angles from below, to check if she could hide in it properly. She nodded in satisfaction before slowly climbing up the tree. It was a painful experience as climbing had been for awhile now, but she managed to make it. 2 Stretches before the Caravan was meant to come as well. A time she'd predicted with the rising sun the same way one of the Azure Strand sailors had taught her.

She peer through the leaves of the tree, her hand pushing down some of the leaves. The caravan was moving closer, she gently lessened her push on the leaves so that they didn't notice anything weird. The guards had fanned out into scouting patrols already, but these knights were careless. Nobody ever looked up. Not even these knights. She grabbed a couple of the firecrackers that she had received, throwing them down from the tree as hard as she could, without hurting herself. The firecrackers were tiny, and they'd be hardly noticeable by anyone, especially when they're thrown so hard. The small crackers slammed into the dirt below, [i]CRACK! CRACK![/i], the two crackers exploded loudly right in front of the horses that slowly plodded along.