Gloriana and Stephan were still in the forest by the time nightfall hit. The majority of their morning having been spent experiencing the pleasures of finishing their bonding as dragon and rider completing the final seal. The next part of their evening was spent finding food which wasn't an easy task. If the scents of dragon lust didn't scare away all the game the roars and screams of pleasure certainly did. They didn't get to travel very far afterward by flight. The sun was beginning to set and at the points of twilight to dusk made it very dangerous to fly and more so to land. On foot they went.
"So where are we going? We left the den and can easily live out here, but I don't know about you but I don't want live just roaming around your parent's lands."
Gloriana somewhat chuckled. Feeling much better than she had waking up that morning her mood was somewhat giddy. She wanted to surprise Stephan on where they were going but she knew it wasn't fair to him to keep him in the dark like this for so long.
"We're going to see the elf mage Elmenreth. There's a couple things he can teach us before we find the Aerial Guardians."
Stephan paused and decided that the way the ground came to a slight overhang and how the trees parted just right to give a good view of the oncoming night sky that this spot would make for a good camp. A great thing about being Gloriana's rider was he could see in the dark almost as good as she could and to make things better he didn't need a campfire since her body heat was like a thermal blanket.
"This'll be a good spot for the night......so we are going to join the guardians then?"
"It's worth a try."
Then Stephan let what Gloriana said before that sink in and it made him wonder what she meant. The Aerial Guardians would teach them everything they needed. What would Elmenreth teach them that the Guardians couldn't?
"And what's Elmenreth going to teach us that the Guardians can't?"
"It's not that they can't, but it's something we need to know for them to accept us. ....it's somewhat a personal matter and it wouldn't be right learning it from them."
Stephan looked at Gloriana oddly before continuing.
"Then why are we going to learn it from an elf mage? I'd think that the Guardians would be the right ones to teach us something that personal."