((sorry, our main computer broke, so my mum used the laptop. if i stop talking, its because she is on ebay.))

Hikari glanced at the two new companions of their group and smiled. "Well.." she started, feeling amused. "what are the chances of us four meeting in an old run down town in the middle of no-where?" she laughed. "she eased her grip on her dagger. she now kew they must all be exiles, but she dared not say it out loud. she removed a map from her bag. "i have a map of the whole region. it has the walled city marked, but this run-down town, isn't. So until we find a land mark of some deion, we are going no-where." she  smiled.

((Thanks for telling us Toshi.  Does anyone know where Gordo or Grayvs went to?))

Kioko smirked at that.  "It was either fate or coincidence.  I believe I'll go with coincidence for now."  She looked at the worn map Hikari had spread out.  One look confirmed what she had said;  The small town they were in was nowhere on the map.

"This could be problematic," she mused.  "We need to figure out where this dump is in relation to the walled city before we set out.  It would be foolish of us to just start wandering around in the desert without a destination in mind."  She glanced at the others.  "No offence meant to anyone who was wandering around aimlessly in the desert, of course."