OOC: The whole RP forum seems to be slowing down lol, exams?
IC:
Alyssia didn't sleep, she sat back against the rumbling wall, just above the cart's axle so as to provide some illusion of comfort. Her newly acquired javelins lay by her side, unattended since the night before. She had little need for sleep, having consumed Elvor's energising concoction, not so long ago.
She swam atop the waves of thoughts that flooded her mind, no longer sinking, no longer isolated and alone. Whether this was because of the companionship she had so recently formed with the group or the removal of her Sho'ka, she did not know. She couldn't stay focussed, thinking about one thing after another; Home, Urak, Elvor, Shurga, Akador, the hunt and Hyrai. Only with the last one did she reach for her missing dagger, her father's blade, fingers grasping at the empty air beside her boot. The last sliver of her lost home was gone, along with her isolation. Though it pained her, she knew this was for the best, she could never return home, Sho'ka or no. It would only arouse suspicion. Best to make the most of life elsewhere.
"Anyone awake?" she asked cheerily, full of energy and vigour under the morning light, a beam of hope, piercing the punctured veil across the cart's open rear.