Chapter 131: Kiria

The next morning I packed whatever remained of my luggage. Lubbock hadn't come back yet, I had to pack his stuff too. He hadn't brought much with him and most of it wasn't meant for the round trip so I barely had much on me. Miss Traveler said she was leaving too. We decided to leave town together. To be honest, I felt like I needed to talk to her at least once before we left.

I was waiting for her downstairs, having finished with my brief packing earlier. It hadn't snowed last night, but the morning was chilly. I was sitting at the bar as the owner scrubbed clean the glasses that he never even had to use.

"Why don't you leave here?", I asked him.

"And go where?"

"Somewhere you can find food easily."

He chuckled.

"An old man like me can survive on bark", he started on another glass, "I'd be dead by the time I make it off this mountain anyway."

"Come with us, then."

He said nothing. I suppose that was it, his decision.

"You young folk can't understand, I was like that once too. But li