[Bronze Woods] No Place Like Home (Markus, Jonathon)

[Markus Andres]

Markus smiled and nodded his head when Jonathon accepted the bargain. Knowledge in exchange for goods. It was cheap knowledge in Markus' books. He could always get more rations back with the knights. He listened carefully to what knowledge Jonathon had to share. Markus nodded when he said vigilance was important. He could only agree. Vigilance could have saved him for a lot of trouble last summer. He turned his head to look at the forest and see if he could spot anything new, but it seemed that Jonathon's point had been that while he focused in that direction, Markus could have been attacked from the other. The idea reminded Markus a lot of his master's first training sessions. Then it came to stealth, something Markus needed a lot more of, if he wanted to move through the forest unnoticed. Another thing that would have helped him last summer. Why had he not met Jonathon last summer, rather than now. He smirked at Xalet's comment. The advice was sound but vague, it was missing something more concrete. But it was a good start at least. He turned to face Jonathon again, to hear his response to Xalet's question, before Markus would ask his own. "And when it comes to traveling through the wilderness, would your advice be to follow the river bed? Or is that dangerous. For I assume game is not the only thing that stay close to water." Markus asked.