As the group rested, eating from the small reserve they carried for that, and most falling asleep soon afterward, Deseradar asked Finarelem and Solima to show their feet to him and others still awake then. The two were not shy about it and each held their feet up. The sores from the sandals they had walked in earlier while those were wet had now healed. The feet were thick, maybe more than they were earlier, the soles they then showed had a dirty stain, still no injury or any cut was seen on what seemed to be the smooth surface of the soles.
Deseradar said, "It really is amazing you both keep going, without any need for the sandals you would wear, and never getting hutt by anything."
Solima said, "Well I stepped on some really uncomfortable things a few times along the way. Somehow my feet were quickly adjusting to avoid it being worse, and I could go on without it even bothering me, even when once it bruised. The soles now seem to be so thick they are not bothered by that. We had gone barefoot before but when we all left to go this long way to find a good country that we are thinking we are led to, we both believed our feet would need us to wear what we had for protection, but when we took them off when we could not go on with them, our feet just got stronger for that."
Deseradar said, "If that is the case for you then we should let you go on that way. But the rest of us need the sandals we wear, still."
Finarelem said, "It seems so. But I don't know. Maybe it would work for any others the way it worked for both of us."
Deseradar said, "It really is amazing you both keep going, without any need for the sandals you would wear, and never getting hutt by anything."
Solima said, "Well I stepped on some really uncomfortable things a few times along the way. Somehow my feet were quickly adjusting to avoid it being worse, and I could go on without it even bothering me, even when once it bruised. The soles now seem to be so thick they are not bothered by that. We had gone barefoot before but when we all left to go this long way to find a good country that we are thinking we are led to, we both believed our feet would need us to wear what we had for protection, but when we took them off when we could not go on with them, our feet just got stronger for that."
Deseradar said, "If that is the case for you then we should let you go on that way. But the rest of us need the sandals we wear, still."
Finarelem said, "It seems so. But I don't know. Maybe it would work for any others the way it worked for both of us."
