Entering Ceawla, and exiting Lollipop?

The group, lead by Jenforth Conefrid, crosses the last dune to see the glint of water ahead. With the sun setting on their right to the west, the trees cast long shadows across the dunes. A warm breeze ruffles the feathers on Binky, and Lollipop starts to bugle. Far behind the oasis, large winged creatures can be seen drifting in the evening sun. A faint bugle can be heard, a musical counterpoint to Lollipop, who is starting to become agitated despite the best efforts of Nova, to calm the dragraffe.

Wode and Belinda, looking south, both smile. Belinda is the first to speak, excitement making her stumble over her words. "Look! You can see some adult dragraffes! Looks like they are heading this way - they must of heard Lolli here or something...this is farther north than they usually fly about to."

Lollipop is rocking his cart, his wings stretching out as far as they can as he stands up. Perhaps no one noticed, but baby dragraffes grow fast, up to half a foot or so a day. What used to be a fairly roomy cart is now quite full of young dragraffe, and the wooden slats are threatening to break.

Not so far to the south, two winged creatures are fast approaching over the dunes, the sound of dragraffe bugling getting louder both from the adults flying in fast, and the adolescent bugling from Lollipop. While the Runt Gubbler watches from the safety of the rearmost wagon, Agaric and Crut watch from near the front of the wagons and the magnificent creatures settle down a few scant yards away, their heads towering above the group as they peer at the young dragraffe and the people holding him in a cage.

Wode, with a sense of awe in his voice, says "The dragraffes are a herd group - they are well known to protect and bring in orphaned young. I think we may have just been saved several more days of journeying - we can let Lollipop out here. He can fly at least a bit, and these two will guard him as they make their way back south to the southern hills."

And before I go any further, I'll get some feedback from the group to see if this is okay. We'll get back to some more traditional adventuring without having to haul a baby dragraffe (which, in reality, would have been a lot more problematical as we made out. And yes, baby giraffes actually do grow about 6" a day!)