Mel is keeping her head down, trailing near the middle of the caravan, keeping her bags extremely close at hand (her charms are in there. It won't be automatically disastrous if they're discovered, but it might be).
She's working herself up to trail after the two probably-Wizard-spies who joined the caravan earlier when suddenly the ground isn't there anymore.
Mel falls with an 'eep', instinctively curling around her bag to reduce the chance of her charms getting too jostled.
"...Jana, you need to remember to warn people that you're dumping them out of the shadowed version of the world you inhabit," Friedrich chides. "Are you okay, Melissa?"
"Jan also cheats horribly and just keeps a constant shadow over her eyes to avoid sun-in-the-eye problems."
"I'll teach you the trick sometime...if you can't figure it out yourself." There's a hint of teasing challenge in Jana's voice.
"I have no doubt." Turns back to Friedrich. "We're looking for somewhere to go to try and discover immortality. Ideas?"
"A truly admirable trait!" Friedrich hums thoughtfully for a moment. "Kravitzholm is probably as good a place to start as any. Lord Kravitz is openly for magic, and this makes it an easier place to ask around after people who've been making strides towards things like immortality. And there's at least one scholar there who tries to keep their finger to the pulse on that kind of thing."
"Handily yes! We're supposed to be meeting Valka there. A friend and colleague of ours. She'd gone to see her wife."
"Even more handily, Valka, or Valka's wife might know of someone who has an idea on immortality. For personal reasons they've got a good breadth of knowledge regarding healers."
"And if we're all feeling full and rested, perhaps we should continue on the way?"
Well then, packs can be grabbed, weapons can be checked, and they can continue on their way. Friedrich decides to pass the time by giving Melissa a potted history of the fief they're currently in - the current lord had risen to power in a surprisingly democratic manner, although with an amount of bloodshed to unseat the previous lord, and the support Lord Kravitz had from his people was in large part due to his open defiance of the church's declaration that magic was evil.
Huh. Sounds - interesting.
Her home doesn't tend to have much in the way of revolutions, democratic or otherwise...
Typically there isn't that much open revolution here either! Normally it's handled by hiring assassins to take out political rivals. And occasional annexation of nearby fiefs. There's enough call for combat capable people for Jana and Friedrich to make a good living.
Jana isn't sure if the lack of revolution (either way) sounds peaceful...or boring.
There's not a lot of distinct polities, and most of the wars are between the Wizards.
"And let me guess," Friedrich says with a slight grimace. "Those wars spill over and affect the people who don't have the power to protect themselves from it?"
"Yeah. And no one can really oppose the Wizards, except another Wizard."
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