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 She carefully scythed off another slab on the opposite side of the hole from the previous one, widening it yet further. It looked nearly wide enough for the cart.}}
+{{wst>pinkgothic|An-uxhwi watched Evrith with concern, still privately wondering why she was exerting herself this way. She'd not //said// anything and didn't seem to be radiating nervousness or anxiety, but it still felt sudden and off.
+"Tikke," An-uxhwi addressed the xtauh conversationally. "What is it like, where you went?"}}
+{{wst>shyriath|By this point, Unitti had apparently given up on physical chastisement; at any rate, they could not help much with Shyriath's smoothing of the slope, and had instead stood aside for the moment. Tikke looked pleased at having the chance to talk about his brief trip. "There big pile of rock on other side, where other book is," he replied, "but all around rock is grass, off to distance. Some streams with trees near. Much prey. Could have fine living there."
+There was a last crash as Evrith shoved a chunk of rock out of the way. Her work complete, she gently sank to the ground in the widened exit.}}
+{{wst>pinkgothic|Tikke's visit didn't //sound// like it had likely influenced something, unless he had missed something crucial. An-uxhwi's mind briefly ran with the idea of it being a trigger, regardless, and considered a level of indirection - by having gone to the world, they would visit it more frequently now, to get supplies when they ran low on them in this one, and eventually, that would lead them to be discovered by some threat.
+It seemed rather too nebulous to matter. No, it was more likely something else was going on - possibly something as mundane as Evrith simply not liking the confined space very much.
+Maybe he would ask her later. For now, he instead approached her to carefully grasp her and ease her back toward the cart, slow in his approach to give her an opportunity to object.}}
+{{wst>shyriath|Evrith looked, very briefly, as if she might indeed object, but erupted in a brief bout of harsh coughing. When it ended, she appeared to have decided not to argue, and allowed An-uxhwi to help her down toward the cart - somewhat awkwardly, given the difference in their sizes. Shyriath, looking very worn out himself, went upward past them as he continued to work.
+Having reached the cart, however, she made no move to get into it. "Needs to be pushed up and out still," she mumbled, as Shyriath reached the top of the slope. "Too much trouble with me in it." Tikke and Unitti started awkwardly turning the cart in the limited space until its wheels were parallel to the ramp.}}
+{{wst>pinkgothic|An-uxhwi sighed inwardly, but decided not to argue. Instead, he simply helped to keep her propped up while the others tried to get the cart maneouvred out of their little space.}}
+{{wst>shyriath|With some struggle, the cart was pushed up and out. Evrith looked as if she might try to assist, but, after a sideways glance at An-uxhwi, allowed its two owners to do most of this work; tired and distracted as she was, she did not want to distress him further on her account.
+A thought occurred to her, and as An-uxhwi helped her haul herself up the ramp after the cart, she asked him, "Is the wing feeling any better?"}}
+{{wst>pinkgothic|He shrugged as lightly as he could get away with and still make the gesture apparent. "It is only a bruise. It will continue to sting for a while, but it is best left alone," he reasoned. It was technically a little more than a bruise, but the overall statement still remained. It was a source of pain he could easily ignore, especially if he was focussing on physical labour.}}
+{{wst>shyriath|It was just as well that she was too tired to fall into a bout of self-recrimination, especially over even a bad bruise. As it was, a little voice in her head said: //You could've prevented that. You got someone hurt again.//
+But, at least for now, she ignored it. Once the cart was on reasonably level ground again, she began climbing into it without prompting. "Tikke... Unitti... I think you're heading south in any case. Could you carry us for a while?" There was a certain amount of head-bobbing agreement, and shortly thereafter the two xtauh were pulling the cart onto a little-used track with the other three in the back.
+Evrith let her head droop, where it came to rest against An-uxhwi's neck, and murmured, "For now, we're safe - mostly. But something will seek us out when we get further into the hills."}}
+{{wst>pinkgothic|An-uxhwi blinked, not quite having expected her to come forth with another prediction at this point in time - not without prompting. It was welcome, though, and saved him from prying. Still... the wording struck him as quaint. "What kind of thing?" he asked, softly.}}
+{{wst>shyriath|"People... takmar. But I think they're already looking... I think they know about us, somehow..." The words were starting to come out slurred. "Don't know how."}}
+{{wst>pinkgothic|An-uxhwi grimaced lightly, unnerved by the idea that some people were coming after them despite never having met them. On the other hand, that was what they were doing with the nameless mage that lived in the future, weren't they?
+"Maybe they too are in the company of one such as you, who can see the future?" he theorised. He shifted and tried to fold one wing over Evrith, more as a gesture than out of need.}}
+{{wst>shyriath|Under the wing, Evrith shuddered briefly. "I... think not. Hope not. Oracles are very, very rare." There was a long silence, and the only clear indication that she wasn't asleep came when, without really seeming to think about it, she curled a foreleg around one of his.
+At last, she added, "If one is after us, we're in very bad trouble."}}