"Okay. I don't. I figure you're right about everything. I just think she has less than no reason to believe either of us."

- nod.

...she doesn't really want to have this conversation so maybe she can review some of these hand signs again.

Yeah that sounds good.

She practices her Celestial and practices her magic and asks Mahdi about the magic parts of their plans.

"It's two more teleports to the gate?"

"Yeah. No cities north of here, we'll just have to camp in the snow  - well, in a couple of Rope Tricks - and then we should be there. I'm not expecting a fight, there, but we shouldn't rule it out."

Nodnod. "Rope trick's eight hours, right? - nine hours now, I guess. Are you gonna cast it more than once?"

"Probably. Since we won't want to hang out on the ice for too long. We might be below the temperature range Endure Elements is meant for."

Nodnod. "Okay for short timespans, though? With the coats?"

"Yeah, the spell fails gracefully. I'm not worried about anything until we reach the gate."

"Okay. - do we, uh, know how I open it?"

"No. We will have to figure that out once we get there, if it's not obvious."

Nodnod.

She goes back to practicing her magic.

They stay overnight. Keep a watch, just in case.

Nothing bothers them in the night. The family they're staying with has enough breakfast for all of them in the morning.

Ooooh. 

They'll actually wait most of the day to head out. This place is much nicer than the one they're headed to.

It is! 

She runs around and plays outside. At one point she runs into some other kids playing a game that's mostly like tag, and she can't speak their language but the rules seem simple enough, so.

She watches them and reads. Also notes to herself that she should really be making sure that Verita has the chance to hang out with other kids, now that she isn't going to school. ....and should probably make sure that she has the chance to study more than just magic and Celestial, given that, again, she isn't going to school anymore.

He goes out exploring and comes back in the early evening in a good mood.

The boarding house doesn't usually provide dinner but if they'd like to contribute a few gold they can make extra?

They'd like that! 

Then there will be lots of hot homemade Erutaki food.

And they may as well use Tongues to be able to communicate with their hosts through dinner. They can communicate that they are very charmed by the village and share world news if there's any interest.

Their hosts are interested in world news! They get most of their news from merchant caravans, and most of those don't travel as far south as these people have been.

They know a lot about world affairs, between all of their travels. They don't know what happened in Numeria exactly but it's a bit of a nightmare these days, visits not recommended. Everyone was starving, when they visited, and women rounded up to entertain their mad ruler. Razmir is still pretending to be a god and gobbling up nearby bits of the River Kingdoms. Galt is still having revolutions. There are murmurs that Taldor might invade them just out of pity. Hell still has a foothold in the world through Cheliax. Osirion's had a new pharaoh for going on four years, now. There was a slave revolt in Katapesh.