"Well, then." Tsume smiled, stretching. "It's a date. You done?" Kuromaru apparently was, as much as she wanted to coax him into eating more. She switched her focus with difficulty, pinning her gaze on the young man beside her and forcing herself to pay attention to him and only him.

"Field thirteen isn't far, as the ninja travel." She hesitated, and purposefully didn't look at her familiar. "But maybe we could travel as the civilians travel, if you don't mind." By street, at a slower pace.

Kuromaru was still laying on the ground, eye half-lidded.

The pup had been coughing earlier, though. Maybe he wouldn't mind the slower travel.