Lily dropped down from the sky once a settlement was reached. Ron raised an eyebrow at the sight, but didn't say anything up the time. The new enlarged group proceeded to travel silently after that. To prevent either side from thinking the other was trying something underhanded, they stuck to running about ten metres to the side of each other. It was clear that Ron's group were all faster than Xiang and Yang, but the thieves didn't complain once. Kat was guessing that Ron already knew that bit of information and had allowed for that in the timeline of events.