On the way back, Rhydian and Jonan boarded a carriage, which was following a caravan on the way, which was getting to the nearest city from where they were, and from there, they would board a carriage that would lead them to Starfall City.
No carriage would be benevolent enough to help them; it's just that Rhydian took out quite a sum of gold, which changed their mind, and let them hop on the carriage, and instead of wearing a mask to hide his face, he simply covered half his face with a cloth, and he also wore a hood for better concealment.
At the moment, while Rhydian was perfectly fine, Jonan, in the meantime, was lethargic, and his limbs were not working from the exhaustion as well and some effects of the Dark Tide were showing on him.
The Dark Tide of the Monarch Lyneex wasn't just a simple black color flood; if it even touches any living being, it starts to corrode anyone from the inside.
