Just the way she likes it.

Convenient when it happens like that. 

Providential.

Zero doesn't believe in providence.

The result of their own hard work, then.

She'll accept that. 

Excellent.

Though sadly it'll eventually be time for Zero to sleep. 

Eliese will take a nap as well.

Alright. 

(Zero hasn't been wanting to share her bed when she sleeps, so she has a second bed set up.)

Entirely reasonable of her.

Until morning, then. 

Sleep well.

She will. 

And the next morning, Eliese is prepared for battle.

So's Zero. 

How does Eliese want to go about getting to Five? They can walk, but...

She doesn't want to fly too far...

They'll have to wade through the trash protecfing Five otherwise - how far is too far? 

Under a mile.

They're probably about a mile out from the edge of Five's defenses... The actual perimeter is fairly small though. 

Then they can walk closer, and fly straight to Five before they're detected.

Works for her. 

Then let them set out.

The land's weirdly unpopulated, actually - it's a bit mountainous, but the valley Zero cuts through really should be fertile farmland, especially if it's so close to a settlement. There's instead remnants of long-abandoned houses and barns dotting the landscape here or there, strangled under weeds, and tall wooden walls manned by archers cut across a defensible pass that what few people live in this land seem to be crowded behind. The entire area smells of dead fish. 

"Five'll be in a shrine off the coast," Zero says as they draw close enough that one of the archers shouts a warning. 

"Do you have a precise location?"