[Dragoon speed also makes things easier when the one leading has wings.]

Well, there weren't many monsters around this time, at least.

I think.

It was a broken-out section of floor in an old palace, only whatever was below'd been mostly buried - a lot of it was crumbling and unstable, held together by vines and -

[And there's the flaw in "No monsters so far".]

Have you run into any plant monsters out here so far?