They were making quite a bit of progress in their journey, getting closer and closer to their destination.

There hadn't even been much trouble they ran into, until one morning when Rayla told Callum and Ezran that she had been attacked. Again, apparently.

"Who keeps attacking you, anyway?" Callum asked her.

"I don't know, I didn't ask their name."

Callum packed things up as quickly as he could, in a panic, "Well, then we probably shouldn't stick around to find out, you know, cause I don't see that ending well."

"Wait... You didn't ask who they were?" Soren questioned.

"There are better times for that." Rayla grabbed Bait and Ezran got Zym.

"What would be a better time than the middle of a battle?" Callum joked, "That's when I like to do my introductions."

"Whatever. We have to go." Rayla insisted.

Claudia still didn't really trust Rayla of course, and Rayla wasn't really helping her case, with someone after her and all. Though, Claudia and Soren had been after her so really, who was to say if it was suspicious?

But it wasn't like anyone else had been sent to save the princes, so who was attacking Rayla?

"So... What happened the first time?" Claudia asked once they had made a little distance away from their camp.

"The first time?" Callum turned his head to look at Claudia.

"Well, you said this happened before, right?" She said, "So what happened last time?"

"You know, that's a good question. Rayla?"

"I still don't think this is the time. We should be focusing on getting away from them."

"We can multitask." Callum said.

"So..." Claudia waited, "Are you gonna tell us?"

Rayla sighed, "I heard something, they showed up and then usual fight things happened."

"Huh."

They didn't end up running into them, luckily, and Rayla became a lot calmer and generally more fun to be around, though she still seemed to have something on her mind.

Claudia was glad that they didn't run into whoever it was, but a little disappointed that they didn't get to find out who they were. And besides, it wasn't like they couldn't take them.

It was a nice night. Callum, Ezran, Soren and the girl with the wolf seemed to be asleep. Rayla wasn't, but she was a Moonshadow elf, so wouldn't she prefer the night?

Honestly, Claudia still didn't trust her. She did try to kill Callum and Ezran, and she had only known her for a few days, so she didn't have much to go off. After everything she heard about elves?

She was sitting on a rock and seemed to be just enjoying the night. Claudia approached her. If she did attack her, she'd be able to defend herself, anyway.

"Hey." Claudia greeted.

Rayla turned her head to look at her, and waved her hand, "Hey."

"So... Do they know?"

"Know what?"

"About the King." Claudia asked.

Rayla frowned, "I don't know."

"So you haven't told them."

"No." She said, "I tried to, but it was a bad time. And we had to save the egg."

"Are you going to?" Claudia asked, sitting down next to her, "They're going to find out eventually."

"I don't know. Maybe." Rayla replied, "I just don't know if there's a good time to tell them. We're being tracked by someone and the egg is hatched. We're not going to be catching a break anytime soon."

"Yeah..." Claudia says, and then changes the subject, "Hey, next time you see them, you should ask them their name."

Rayla smiled a bit, "Yeah... maybe."

"Though, I should also ask who the wolf girl is."

"Wolf girl?"

"You know, the girl with the wolf. The one that travels with you, that one."

"Ellis." Rayla tells her.

"Ah..."

A couple days passed and they were doing... okay. There was still possibly someone tracking them, so they were attempting to be careful. They usually were, given that they had a dragon, but right now it was especially important.

And the dragon couldn't fall into the wrong hands... That it was powerful and dangerous. That was what her dad had said, but he also locked a guy in a dungeon. Honestly, some of the things he did were really weird.

Why bother thinking about what he had said, though? They had already made their choice, even if they could technically go back on it. It wasn't like she could return with an egg that wasn't an egg, though. Maybe she could just go find an egg and paint it or something, return with that.

Yeah... He'd probably believe that.

Claudia sat underneath the tree, currently thinking about a book instead, and unaware of the conversation Callum, Ezran and Rayla were currently having.

"So, why don't you, Claudia and Soren- actually, maybe not Soren," Callum said, glancing at Soren who was currently working out, "...Anyways, why don't you and Claudia go find something to eat? Bonding experience."

"I could just do it alone."

"But maybe if you get to know each other, you'll be friends." Ezran proposed.

"Fine." Rayla said.

It wasn't really that she didn't like Claudia, or didn't want to spend time with Claudia and find some berries or something. But she did like, just meet her and up until a few days ago, they were definitely enemies.

It was a bit more questionable now, since they were on the same side, but she was sure Claudia still didn't really trust her. She didn't really trust her, either.

"Hey, Claudia?"

They weren't that far away when they found some berries, luckily. Claudia felt like she should say something, but she wasn't entirely sure what. She talks about the nature and makes some jokes.

"So these are moonberries?" She asks, holding one up. Rayla nods, "So do all the primal sources have a berry?"

"What? Um... Maybe."

"Huh." Claudia smiled, and continued picking the berries, "So what all happened while we were tracking you?"

"What do you mean?"

"Like, I know you got attacked and something happened with the egg, but what else happened?"

"Well..."

Rayla gave her a brief summary, not particularly detailed or anything.

"Hey, how did you find us?"

"Huh? Well, we tried dogs at first, but they lost the trail. So I did a tracking spell with your braid."

Rayla puts one of her hands in her hair, probably where the braid was.

"Kinda a shame. It was cute."

Rayla didn't respond, and suddenly got very alert. Which made sense, because she did have to dodge a weapon almost immediately after.

It seemed that guy was back again.

A/N: I'm still rewatching it again. There really is not a lot to go off of... Rayla and Soren are really hard to write. Rayla and Claudia have some more interactions in this chapter, I guess. Claudia is also difficult to write. There really isn't that much to go off. Also, for some reason she never asked about Ellis.