Getting into the Varden was easy, with Jormundur there, but making your way though a crowd of people was much harder on your own.
As soon as they came out of the tunnel, Jormundur seemed to vanish. Feeling a trickle of sweat on her neck she quickly wiped it away. Once before, she had had some… difficulties getting through this area.
It was terrible, some old woman had grabbed her ankle and started to babble on and on about how she shouldn't have run away. And she was going to take her home for a beating. Luckily, the Lady's husband wasn't suffering from an disease that makes you hallucinate, forget things and think you can fly.
Shaking her head Ryeliey trotted to a home where she normally stayed at. Dismounting Carassib, she knocked on the door.
Moments later, the door swung open, to reveal the face of a kind-hearted woman with a little child peeking around her skirts to see. The woman smile enlarged as she saw the thin teenager.
"Ryeliey!" she cried out in delight, and she hugged her, very hard. So Ryeliey had the nice feeling of her guts being squeezed out.
"Madame Tooso," She choked out, "Please let me go."
The bear-hug ceased, and she looked at Ryeliey fondly. "What have you been doing dear?" she asked questionably. But then the little girl behind Madame Tooso's skirts popped out.
"Ryeliey!" she squealed in delight.
"Mina you've grown!" Ryeliey said crouching down and looking at the little girl who couldn't have been more than five years old.
"Well today's my birthday!" Mina said smugly.
"Oh yeah! I almost forgot." She stood up, turned around to rummaged though Carassib's saddle bags and pulled out a thin necklace with a small blue stone on its chain. Turning back to Mina, she showed it to her.
It took Mina five seconds to squeak again in delight. She grabbed it from Ryeliey and put it on.
Mina twirled around a few times, and then ran off to show her friends.
"You know shouldn't spoil her like that. She already is pretty demanding." Madame Tooso said quietly.
Ryeliey smiled, "I don't give her presents too often; only on her birthday. Besides, she's a good child."
Ryeliey tied up Carassib and walked into the house, closing the heavy door behind her.