When Artemis woke the next morning at an obscenely early hour she was glad to see Tracey had made it back in one piece. She sat next to the dying fire wrapped in a blanket trying to bully her thoughts into making sense. Hercules and the other were milling about in what she considered frankly disgustingly good moods. Tracey slowly shifted under her cloak and blinked tiredly before pulling her cloak's hood over her head and rolled over away from the fire. She mumbled and curled in on herself, hoping that if she ignored the morning that it would pass her by and leave her alone.

"Do we have to be awake this early in the morning?" She asked, though her voice was muffled from under her cloak. "The only way I'm moving from this spot and going to get into full consciousness is if I run for a while... and not much will be making me do that."

Artemis dug around in her bag and came out with a small bottle of caffeine pills, she shook two into her hand and poked one under the cloak to Tracey. "I don't think they care hon." She muttered. "And needs must when the devil wakes you at dawn."

Tracey opened one eye and looked at the pill in Artemis's hand before taking it, muttering something about Hercules and his friends being the devils this morning and reached out for her water skin, drawing it quickly beneath her cloak. A moment later she was up securing her satchels and ran a brush through her hair, though it might not matter if she decided to change her form again. Pulling on the straps for a second time, Tracey looked around and watch the others backing their horses up to the chariots and strapping them in. She was amazing at how quickly they moved to get the campsite broken down and put away, but then again this was normal or them and they moved rather quickly to get everything put away and tied down.

"I don't even think I've ever been this awake in the morning." She muttered, looking at Artemis. "Did you at least sleep well?"

Artemis nodded and checked Traceys bandages. "These are looking better. We can wait a while to change them today."

"Agreed, I even had a little help from Autolycus last night when I came back." Tracey replied with a slight smile as she looked down at her bandages and flexed her fingers experimentally. "He's got some healing skills but I'm going to stick with you when it comes to the major injuries."

Standing up, Tracey didn't immediately strap her satchel across her shoulders and instead was captivated by the neighing of everyone's horses. She grinned at a sudden thought and then started to stretch her arms above her head and squatted down to stretch out her legs.

Artemis I'm feeling the need to stretch out a little bit... if you don't feel like standing in the chariots anymore just let me know."

Stepping out of their campsite and leaving her satchel beside Artemis's bag, Tracey disappeared into the tree line and didn't return for a moment. A sharp whinny erupted from the foliage and a massive black Frisian galloped back out, a gray cloak around it's neck and mane and tail flying free in the wind. Something bulky lay beneath the gray cloak but no one could be sure since it match the horse's body nicely. Neighing to the other horses before trotting a ring around everyone there, Tracey threw up her head and flung around her mane again before coming to a halt next to Artemis. She nickered and nosed at her cheek, blowing air into her face as if to say hello again.

Artemis grinned and stroked her nose patting her massive neck. "Go on you. Take a run I'll ride in the chariot for a while." She loaded the bags into the chariot and stepped in watching Tracey with a cheerful twinkle in her eyes.

She bobbed her head, the fly-away mane following her movements. With her tail high in the air and her ears forward, Tracey started her warm up exercises starting first with a few circles of trots and warming up all the muscles in her four legs for fear of pulling something. That wouldn't make her day if a big reason for running came up and she lamed herself because she didn't stretch properly. She loved how the wind blew over her body and the sun shined down on her and warmed her greatly. A playful whinny escaped from her and she pawed the ground with impatience, watching the final preparations being made before they got underway.

Artemis grinned as the horses pulling the chariots started dancing in their harnesses impatient to get going as well. When they finally left the campsite Amphiaraus started singing something lively and the others joined in as the sun rose higher in the sky. Tracey kept steady pace with the chariots, every once in awhile pulling ahead at an even canter. Her cloak rippled in the breeze and was blown back over her muscles shoulders and flanks. The steady thud of hooves on the ground was very rhythmic and almost settled in with Amphiaraus singing. Tracey kept pace with his chariot for the most part, finding a slight comfort in his voice which reminded her a lot of her biological father. Pacing herself to a steady trot again, Tracey looked up into the sky, eying the clouds and the sun, her nostrils flaring as the wind brought fresh air to her. It was cool and had a slight aroma of water.

'Water... that would be perfect right now and I'm pretty sure the other horses could use some too.' She thought to herself, looking to the chariots and their riders. 'Now to get Artemis's and Amphiaraus attention.'

Bunching her hind legs beneath her, Tracey pushed off from the ground and reared, pawing at the air and neighing. She bobbed her head again and angling off to the right of the chariots and heading into some tall, lush grasses toward the fresh scent of water.

Hercules and the others watched her go and glanced back at Artemis for an explanation, but she shrugged her shoulders and jabbed her index finger in the direction that Tracey had headed in. By the time the roaming group got to the lake, Tracey was already rolling on the ground, her legs kicking out and flinging dirt out everywhere. Standing again, she whinnied and shook all over, looking extremely pleased with her antics before heading into the water and wading about her knee high in the water and drinking deeply. The other horses wanted to follow her in, but their chariot harnesses didn't allow them to and Hercules, Autolycus, Amphiaraus, and Atalanta wouldn't allow them to either. They did, however, allowed their horses to drink and then they moved on.

The travel was easy enough though the road was really rocky and long. As the hours grew later and the sky darkened before everyone stopped for the night. Artemis and Tracey would help with set up, gathering of firewood, and collecting edibles for everyone. For the most part this was how they traveled for the week that it took them to get the the base of mount Olympus. It was all thanks to Iolaus's telling of Hercules's legend and the events that had transpired at his completion on his twelfth labor that frightened and deterred any and all thieves from following them or messing with them at all. On the evening of the last day, Tracey was laying on her black, her cloak wrapped around her securely and her eyes gazed at the twinkling stars above them. The other horses stood off on the edge of the camp within reach if need be and her stuff laid alongside her, but she took no notice of either of them. She was focused on the stars and lost in her own thoughts, her mind drifting back to Middle Earth and nothing else mattered to her.

'I wonder if he can see the same stars as me at this very moment...' Tracey mused to herself, her hands resting on her stomach.

At what Tracey guessed was two am Artemis came back from her turn at watch. She laid down with her head next to Tracey's and looked up at the stars as well. She pointed up at a particularly bright cluster. "What do you think that looks like?" She whispered.

Tracey's eyes were redirected to the cluster of stars Artemis pointed at and tilted her head in that direction to get a clearer view. She stared at them for a long time before shrugging her shoulders lightly.

"It could be just about anything... but since you want me to guess I would have to say that bunch of stars looks like an archer." She said with a light smile before pointing to another batch off to her right. "That group over there looks like a man fishing or someone who caught a rabbit."

Artemis smiled and pointed at another cluster of stars. "And those look like a bipedal rat…"

They spent a few hours finding stars that looked like various things until they both dozed off.