LABYRINTH: Birds Fly Over The Rainbow

Chapter 25

Day 84

She put the chops in her backpack before she took the baggage to the horses outside. They said their goodbyes to everyone the night before or in the morning when they were having breakfast. Sarah had in the jewelry leftovers a large gold garnet bracelet. She knew dwarves loved gemstone jewelry, from what she knew from Hoggle.

When Tubeck brought their tea, she said, "Tubeck, I want you to have this to remember us by." He took it from her hand and was looking over the workmanship.

He looked at her and said, "This is a very well made piece. Are you sure? You could fetch a price for it?"

Sarah said, "I know. I just want you to know that you are a nice friend and we want you to remember us." He nodded, getting a little choked up.

He said, "I'll remember. I promise, Sar and Brie." Sarah and Brie smiled. They finished up eating and hugged Tubeck goodbye.

Sarah had Azure's food bottles strapped to her belt inside her cloak with the kitten in the bag. She loaded the horses and got Brie and herself mounted on the horses. They waved goodbye and headed west down the mountain trail Sarah had Brie follow like last time. When it started to get dark Sarah was drawn to a hidden almost obscure cave entrance big enough hopefully to fit the horses. Sarah dismounted to go check inside. She gave her reins to Brie.

Sarah walked into the cave with a lit up crystal like Kelvin showed her how to do. It wasn't huge but the perfect size. She tripped over something and it jingled. She picked herself up and  thought, 'I just can't believe this. Another pot of gold? This little luck ring is amazing. I'm gonna be counting coins forever at this rate.' The cave was empty and perfect for their needs.

Sarah went out and dismounted Brie and they led each of their horses inside the cave. They had the horses at the back of the cave and set up the tent and got all their stuff inside but the saddles. Sarah showed Brie the pot of gold she found.

Brie giggled and said, "Only ye, Sar, coulda trip over gold. Seems ta follow us everwhere'." Sarah agreed.

They found rocks to surround a campfire by the front of the cave. Sara said, "I 'wish' for two days worth of constant firewood and kindling against that wall stacked neatly…" she pointed to the wall "… and a bale of hay with a clean watering trough that won't freeze, run out or get dirty, over there." She pointed to a spot near the horses. The items materialized in that order exactly as she specified. Brie was shocked and couldn't believe it. She just got to work with Sarah getting the wood and kindling set up and the horses settled in the back with hay.

The smoke reacted perfectly in the cave and drifted to the outside entrance. Sarah and Brie got the bedding made up and started making tea. Sarah had Azure stay in the tent to eat his milk meat gruel. He always listened well to Sarah. When he was done, she had him sit in her lap while they cooked and ate. They seasoned the fried mutton chops in the little frying pan after they thawed with a pot of barley, carrot, onion, mushrooms, spinach, salt, pepper, garlic and basil. They ate a hardy meal and Sarah bagged the leftovers for morning, a chop each and a little bit of barley medley. Sarah liked eating her seasoned meat with honey on bread slices for breakfast when she camped. The cave warmed up quite well. It was cold but not fridged. It started dumping snow outside. Sarah thought that if it was too bad and deep by morning they may be there for a while longer.

Sarah started counting the gold in the pot and dumping it in her locket in increments. It was a bigger pot than she had in the portal entrance. The pot total was 3850. The locket total now and after Sarah had taken out 100 gold for the shopping they did in Crúb, was 25,750 gold coins. Brie was amazed at how wealthy they were now.