[Ah-ha! So Zel is interested in coming back here. Emery will take that as a win, and accordingly grins. It means that Zel doesn’t totally hate it here!]

Sounds sensible. We’ll have plenty of time for this later.

[...As long as the Field Lord doesn’t give Emery another assignment right after this one, anyway.]

So I talked to the bookseller a bit about the roads around here, and the northwest road leads to a city on the bank of the Ganaranth. Nobody in town’s heading that way anytime soon so we won’t be able to hitch a ride out of town, but once we’re in the city it should be easy to find a ship headed up the river.