White Stone followed her friends down some more tunnels until they came to a cave with a cloud drawn above it.

"This it. Go on in. Me and Butterfly'll wait outside while your getting your stuff. What are you waiting for? She won't bite."

White Stone grinned at them sticking her tongue out before composing a more normal looking face and going inside.

The woman in there looked only a few years older than her, which was a surprise, but then looking at a few pots in the back White Stone realized she was wearing makeup, quite good ones too.

"Hello, what can I do for you?" The woman asked.

"I need some weapons, for my Trial." White Stone told her.

"Of course, all but a bow and arrows?" The woman asked again.

"Yes, please."

"Sure thing, let me just get you them." The woman traveled around the small room and grabbed the things that White Stone needed.

"Here you are." The woman began stacking them in her outstretched arms.

"And what do you want for payment?" White Stone asked.

"Nothing." The woman smiled.

"Nothing?"

"That's right, nothing." The woman smiled.

"But, you must want something." White Stone frowned.

"Of course, but after the Trial, when your back, there's no point in asking for payment if you don't survive." The woman shrugged.

"Fair point, thank you, you were my last hope." White Stone smiled.

The woman smiled back. "Not everyone needs to be so stupid like the others to demand such high prices."

"But you will want a payment after I've come back."

"Naturally, don't worry though, it will be small, nothing really to worry about, now go! If your trial's tomorrow then I'm sure you have other important things to do."

White Stone smiled, thanked the woman and then tried to get out the cave with all the weapons in her arms.

When she was out Sturdy Oak and Butterfly helped carry the equipment as they walked through the big cave system.

"How are you meant to carry all this, and hunt, and defend yourself?" Butterfly asked.

"I'm not." White Stone told them.

"Your not?" Sturdy Oak frowned.

"No, most of these are going to be tied to my horse, I'll have a few weapons on me of course, but not all of them, that's just silly." White Stone grinned.

The two girls exchanged looks behind White Stone and felt slightly more relieved she wouldn't have to carry all the weight combined.

"Where do you want these then?" Sturdy Oak asked.

"In the stables, I'm going to put them on my horse to get her used to the weight." White Stone then laughed when she heard her friends try and hid their groans as they helped her to the horse and load the horse up.

When they were finally finished they spent the day with White Stone and her family who's mum would constantly cry and her father pat his wife's back to comfort her.

When it was time for dinner Sturdy Oak and Butterfly hugged her and promised to see her before she went.

Mingan was more respectable to White Stone that night. When their parents had gone to bed and the two were sitting together by the fireplace he gave her a piece of parchment and a stick of charcoal.

"I can't give you a map, that would be helping you too much, but you can have a map throughout the month. Use the charcoal stick to mark anything you think is significant for you." He told her.

White Stone smiled, blinking away tears forming. "Thank you."

Mingan smiled back. "I'm sorry for being moody with you, I'm just, upset you want to go out so young."

"Its not like it's as if it's that much younger than when you did it." White Stone said.

"I did it for different reasons, just, be safe." Mingan told her.

"I will." She promised.

"I'm going to bed now, you should too." He told her.

White Stone nodded and crept to her bed, she didn't sleep til much later, when the flames in the fireplace had died down and were only a flicker here and there.