This had the soldier stating that he hadn't been there at the birthday, he had been out patrolling and thus had only heard rumors about it. But there was a congratulations that was coming from him regardless.
For the next few hours the carriage continued on its path for the mountains. Yet one of the veteran knights was calling for them to stop for a few hours. There was a storm that was rolling in and that was the one thing that they didn't want to get caught in, plus the horses were needing some water. Circe still seemed to be asleep at the time, although she was rousing a bit as the carriage was coming to a stop.
Meanwhile at the palace, Shayne had changed Rose and currently Chrissanth was sitting in the room, just waiting for the woman to wake up. While Shayne had wanted to be there, he had needed to go and take care of something quickly.