The team for this mission to the Black Wood Forest Outpost was surprisingly small, with only Arthur and Luca as followers.
Accordingly, only two Grooms were brought along: Murphy and Allen.
Murphy and Allen followed their usual routine. After carefully preparing the warhorses, they brought three packhorses from the common stables. Two were for the followers to ride, and the other was to carry supplies.
Along the way, the group maintained its usual traveling formation.
The two followers rode ahead, talking from time to time.
Murphy and Allen followed silently behind, keeping to their duties as Grooms and never interrupting the followers' conversation.
On the night of their first day camping in the wild, Murphy and Allen were sitting around a campfire, talking in low voices.
Allen was enthusiastically chattering about the figures and faces of several young Maids in the castle, but Murphy just gave noncommittal replies.
