"Is that so? Then I look forward to seeing what other clever tricks you two ladies have up your sleeves."
Lady Tarbeck's barbed tone struck Lilith as rather amusing.
"Oh! That reminds me, I must return to my family to make preparations, so I won't keep chatting with you ladies. After all, the people from Holy Flame Island who will be taking over the mines, along with my father and elder brother, will be arriving at Banforth soon."
"Hmph! Then I wish you a safe journey!"
Lady Tarbeck spoke with a smile that never reached her eyes.
"Thank you!"
After roughly another week of practice, the Dragonkeepers and Temple Priests could easily guide Antheros through the Funeral Rite.
Danyla had also nearly finished training Digral and Ophiral. She bid farewell to Highgarden and headed toward Casterly Rock along the Coastal Road.
This time, Danyla did not travel by dragon, but accompanied House Lannister's caravan.
Under Myracis's guidance, Digral and Ophiral continued their hunting training over the Sunset Sea every day, bringing back large quantities of prey.
Danyla and her companions had long since grown tired of seafood, so Tyland sold all of it to the nobles along their route and bought large quantities of cattle and sheep for the dragons to eat.
However, the dragons had already eaten their fill at sea, so they consumed little livestock each day. By the time Danyla and her companions reached Old Oak, Tyland had made more than ten thousand gold dragons from his sales.
Old Oak was the ancestral seat of House Oakheart in the Reach. It lay in the western Reach, near the Sunset Sea, at the midpoint of the Coastal Road, which ran from Lannisport through Old Oak to Highgarden.
During the age of the First Men, House Oakheart had ruled