Ani
Ani stood by the prow of the ship, letting the wind and sea breeze cool her face. After four days of being at sea, she was finally becoming comfortable bobbing up and down on the water, giving her more time to think of what she would do once arriving in Danland.
Both Rin and Razo were used to living in the shelter of the trees, and were not feeling as good about being on turbulent water. Dashta was unfazed, and Ani suspected that the water was whispering many grand tales to her. Enna waited below deck for the water to calm some. The wind was never silent.
Wood touches water. Fish leap. Sails rise. White foam...
And so on. Below deck, down in the cabins was the only place she could escape it.
Ani looked back to the east, back to Bayern. Her home. Too often she wished that Gedric were here. She felt just as awkward and frightened as she had when leaving Kildenree. But she was a Queen now. She had the wind, the birds, and fire on her side and in her power. And friends.
Miri
As the carts rumbled on down the mountain path, Miri wondered if she could leap inside for a quick rest. Her feet were aching from the walking.
Two days down the mountain left Miri with little knowledge of the terrain. She had been unable to reach anyone through quarry-speech, and assumed that they had long since left the Linder beds behind. Occasionally, she could feel the echos of the quarry-speech through her hawk, but they were becoming fewer the farther they traveled.
Miri felt alone and frightened being away from Pa, and Marda, and Peder. She missed the Princess Academy girls: Esa, Frid, Gerti, Helta, Liana and the rest. She missed teaching at the village academy, too. And Doter, and the quarry...
But she would be seeing Britta again. And Stefan, Olana, and-Miri wasn't entirely sure how she felt about this-Katar. She would get to see gardens, the palace, and-as Britta had promised-the seashore. And no matter where she was in the lowlands, she and her friends had promised to look at the moon and sun whenever they rose, so that they would always know that it was the same land they were in, the same moon, the same sun.\
Miri spotted something shiny. Stooping, she saw a tiny rock, but from the inside, there was a glint of jewels. It was a geode.
Miri bent to pick it up, but the moment her fingers touched it, she suddenly had a vision of a man with only one eye tripping on the stone as he fled from what seemed to be the mountain itself.
And then it was gone. Miri lifted the geode, but saw nothing unusual about it.
The wagons began to rumble farther away, and she had to run to catch up.
What had just happened? Miri turned it over in her mind. It had felt like Quarry-Speech, but it had a different sense to it. Not like a person was triggering a memory, but like something was showing her its memory.
Miri started to sing to help relieve the knot of fear in her belly.
Tomorrow's a red flush in the western sky
Tomorrow's a black hush in the middle night
Tomorrow swears the truth of now, now, and now
In the trembling blue gasp of the morning light
The song about tomorrows is from chapter 3 of the Princess Academy book. Just so you know that I didn't make it up. I can't claim to be that clever. All credit goes to Shannon Hale.