"Probably midday tomorrow..."

"Including a break for sleeping?"

"Yes, but not a long one."

"Okay."

For a day and a half, that's sustainable.

"I know some areas that aren't bad for camping, on the way."

"Are any of them at a convenient stopping point for us?"

"One, yes."

"Well, one's all we need."

"As long as no one else is using it."

"Is that likely?"

"Not very. Most travelers take the main roads."

"Good."

"We still have a bit of hiking before we get there, but it shouldn't be long..."

More walking, then.

Which Agon mostly spends talking to Bellona about cultures and recent history of both worlds.

El mostly listens. Lion's more interested in culture stuff than she is.

There's truly a menagerie here - there's Men (scattered in the Lone Lands where they are, except some really annoying rangers, with Rohan's horse lords to the southeast of the mountains and Gondor farther east than that), and elves (mostly the wood elves of Mirkwood, though Agon's heard of elves existing in the Lone Lands and near Moria's eastern gate), and halflings (small, quiet folk, of which exactly one has apparently ever been inclined to travel outside their homeland), and orcs and goblins and trolls (who live in the northern Lone Lands and Mordor mostly; they used to be more present in the mountains, but the dragons drove them out), and wargs (mostly the forests of the Lone Lands, often allied with orcs), dragons, dwarves... Elves, proper orcs, and dragons don't die of old age, but all the other races do.

Immortality. There's that something for nothing again.

Unfortunately immortality is rather hard to get for the unlucky everyone else...

Obviously.

More research is required.

Research is fun!

Hopefully the dwarf library is good enough.

Starting from scratch sounds less fun, yeah...

They'll find out.

Fortunately, their proposed campsite is clear when they reach it.

"Do you two need a fire?" Agon asks.