Daydream
The next day Xing got ready to travel to the West through the mountains. It would only take half an hour for her to reach the end of the mountain and another hour on horseback to reach Falin port where the ten ships for the expedition are leaving the next day.
But that morning, she received a letter from the Emperor that she is named as the Commander for this expedition and he had arranged an escort for her since she as a female won't be accepted on ships as those seafarers are extremely superstitious. For some reason, they believed that having a woman on board will bring terrible luck in any journey especially something important as this.
Xing knew of those superstitions as Haru had told her about it and she had plans to use the new ship he bought recently for herself.