The first step:
Arren stopped to think. His intention was to save Therru but where would she be? Well, he thought that it was useless to stay there and do nothing, while he could be closer to find her. So he took a deep breath and gave his first step and started walking.
He crosses the gate and follows the way. He looks around to decide which way to go. He sees the lights of the village nearby and goes to that direction.
He stops and looks at the swamp where he had found his 'other self' and remembers almost drowning while trying to escape from it.
No longer with fear that 'he' might appear Arren continues his way.
He thought a good and simple way to get a clue of where they are:
Ask someone.
Ironically he found an old man sitting on the grass looking at nothing, at least he thought it was nothing. Later Arren realized that he was waiting for the sun to rise.
' It's almost morning, I have to hurry; Tenar will wake up soon.'-he thought.
Running, he approaches the unknown man and asks him with no hope that he might know something of what he's looking for:
- Sir, by any chance have you seen a dragon and an army passing through here?
-I'm sorry son, I'm here for just a hour...
-Oh, I see-Arren was disappointed and continues his search.
The man seeing Arren's sad face wanted to help but he didn't see anything.
Sorry for not having been able to help he looks down and sees blood. As he looks closer he finds out that it was not only blood but dragon's blood.
(When humans and dragons lived together they also learned about each other. In this case a dragon's blood is thicker and darker)
He then rushes to the boy and shows his finding. When Arren saw the blood on the man's hand he immediately thought that Therru was hurt and became angry but at the same time he was glad that he found the direction of where they went. He thanked the man and started walking faster.
I hope you like this one. I had some difficulties because I don't want it to be a long journey but I think sometimes it's too short and quick review (: