The River
During the trip with the gang, Luke realized how much fun it is to travel in a group. The first trip wasn't lonely because the half-wolf had the company of Atom and Bastet, but traveling with his friends gave him another kind of feeling, something unique. The laughs, the stories, the jokes, and the intrigues are things Luke missed during the almost two months it took to go to Yoelona's fort.
Before they realized the time had passed, they were already in the vicinity of a town called Camboriu, a few miles from the Cardinal Kingdom. Since it was getting dark, they decided to stop and set up camp.
While the men were putting up the tents and burning the fire, Meredith called Alexis to go bathe in a river that the gang saw as they were coming down a hill. This river was huge, but the water was relatively calm in that early evening.