It is late night. Cadoc and Ava are in the coach. Ava is asleep, clinging to Cadoc's arm with her head on his shoulder.

Everything is quiet except the clicking hoofs of the horses that pulls the coach and the owls in the night.

Cadoc looks outside at the street lamps, and back at Ava. The lights from outside fall on her beuatiful face.
She wraps her arms tighter around his with a slight smile.

CADOC
"If you could be with me. It wouldn't be weird. But I don't want you mixed up with my problems. It's...it's too risky. I have to keep avoiding that part of...us".

AVA
(Lazily, half asleep)
Aren't we there yet Cad?

CADOC
No...not yet sleeping beauty. Just a little longer.
(She sighs)
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At home.

   Amber sits on the bed with the blanket to his waist and a book in his hand. There's a lamp by the bed and a few other books with spectacles on them.
Cadoc stands a short distance by the shelves.

AMBER
I thought so too. He was Hamzer? It's been long since I met that man. (Pause) You had something to tell me?

CADOC
It's...about me. And what happened before you took me in. I have to go to Hearth.
(Pulls book from shelf)
It's...where my mother told me to be. She told me to get to someone...someone who would help me.

AMBER
So you'll be leaving for a while?

CADOC
I have to find answers....