Aether exhaled... yet this time, no steam came out.
He was relieved; it might not seem like something that important, but it was. Very important to him, and everyone else.
It meant they had fully gotten out of the mountains.
A long journey, one very long, made him wonder just how long the other route would have been. After all, on the map it looked around twice as big, but maps can be deceiving sometimes; plus, it's one thing when you have resources and all your men are full of energy, and another when they haven't eaten anything in days.
You slow down.
After such a hard road, everyone seemed calmer than before, maybe because they knew their lives weren't at risk anymore, and that soon, they were finally going to get their important needs met...
As the town they had talked about, after the mountains, slowly revealed itself in front of them. Perfect for them to invade and take all their supplies. They couldn't help but cheer.
