It wasn't every day that you managed to escape incarceration and that was something to celebrate. After narrowly escaping a Rune Knight Ashe found it best to get out of Orchidia and she knew just the way to do it. Ashe had a plan that would not force her or her sister to take the tedious walk to Magnolia, their next desired location. Being the villainous mastermind she was, Ashe knew the trade routes rather well and it just so happened that a merchant was coming into Orchidia. The right time, the right place, or perhaps fate. Using night as her veil she snuck onto the merchant's covered wagon. He had fortunately already unloaded and there was plenty of room for her and Brunhilde both. A few bales of hay laid in the corner of the wagon, straw covered the floor. Using the straw, Ashe crafted a make-shift bed for herself.

Resting after such a long day, Ashe was quick to close her eyes and fall asleep. The journey was much easier this way and went a lot smoother with only the occasional bumps on the countrysides dirt roads. Ashe luckily slept through it, in a trance of sorts, a dream. Her dreams were almost always the same, they promised her what she always lusted for, power. Painted in her mind was a vivid image of flames devouring everything around her, she stood with them, not bothered by the all-consuming hell that seemed to be unstoppable. A wicked laugh rang through her mind. Ashe sprung up, awoken by the laugh in her dream. It all seemed so real because it had been. That fire, that place, she recognized it. Her village. Had it been a dream or a nightmare? This was something she was uncertain of.

Now, looking outside the wagon she saw that it was the morning and they were indeed within Magnolia already! Thus, she hopped out of the wagon and vanished into one of the many large crowds of Magnolia's busy streets.

Accused, held at gunpoint and almost burnt to a crisp; they'd barely made it out of that Predicament. Brunhilde was lucky and managed to get out unscathed and with her life. It took most of her guile to escape that Rune Knight but after splitting up with her sister, she used the rest of it to figure out a plan that would reconvene her with her. Brunhilde already knew of their next location, but it was obvious she and Ashe weren't going to stick around Orchidia and so after reconvening with Ashe, they were on their course to Magnolia. Thanks to Ashe, she'd saved them from going to Magnolia on foot by hitching a ride on a merchants wagon in the dead of night.

The only sounds were the horse's feet pattering against the cobbled ground and the wheels creakily rotating. Occasionally they'd hit holes in the road and the whole wagon would shake, it seemed rickety, almost like it would fall apart after the next bump they hit but it didn't. It held together. Unlike her sister, she didn't sleep but stared up at the dark starry sky, silently. Night time was peaceful and silent, a time for her to re-evaluate without disturbances. She rarely had the time to herself which meant she could on do this during travels. Brunhilde's eyes glazed over as a million thoughts flew through her head, including the events that transpired today but more so why she couldn't sleep; what the knight said to her and how Ashe treated her. Like a dog. Thinking of these things brought up terrible memories she never wanted to recall, again. Memories of her father and how he treated her and how her mother just let him in fear of getting hit herself. Such unpleasant things she thought, Brunhilde clenched her fists in a state of rage, but it soon faded and turned into sorrow and self-hatred as she recalled what happened to her mother and father. At her hands. It was all too much for her, all too soon, even if it happened years ago...

Soon she awoke, implying she'd dozed off sometime during the night. Immediately, her eyes burned at the bright light shining in her eyes. Brunhilde hissed and tried to sit up, closing her eyes and throwing her arm over her face to shield her vision. Short-lived as she sprang up after Ashe and faded into one of the bustling crowds behind her sister.