When Jade and her cousins arrive at the stables, a (fancy! gold-trim! (well, you know, gold paint)) horse-drawn carriage is ready and waiting, led by four horses, complete with a carriage-driver.

A basket lunch for all has also been packed.

Jade smiles, "Absolutely perfect. Alright one of you two ride with me along with the driver." She said looking to Jon and Ariadne.

"You have to learn how to shadow shift and it is best if you do it in a place where you can see well."

Jon smiles "Ari, would you like to do the honors?"

Ariadne smiled wryly.
"I'll give it a try.  If we end up in The Land Of Make Believe just have patience with me."

She tried to remember what she had been taught so far.  Keep a picture of what you want, where you want to go, and work on small details.  Changing little things as you go.  Working patiently and carefully, like trimming a bonsai tree or doing calligraphy

Jade will sit near Ariadne to help, "Think of all the pictures we have seen and the culture that his Majesty and Laurence told us about."

Ariadne had worked with many visual artists and imaginative people over the years, including even as a school girl.  She'd never considered herself an artist, despite her father insisting on teaching "Olde Tyme" skills like wood carving, calligraphy, and hand sewing.  But she always loved and respected the artist's craft, and the way they followed their 'Muse' to wherever it led them.  Most artists thought of their Muse as a beautiful woman, much like the Muses of Greek Mythology, which Ariadne could definitely get behind.
Though, of course, after everything she'd seen, perhaps the Muses of legend were real as well?  Perhaps her aunts and uncles had even known them.
It was a weird though, but one not to be distracted by now.

Concentrating, she allowed her Muse, in her beautiful Grecian robes, to lead her in her slow and deliberate artistic conjuration of the main streets of Tanus.  She tried to picture a deserted side street for them to appear on, where no one would notice their arrival.  She remembered her superhero movies, Vectortown Rules and Madame Mink.  Both movies weren't exactly acclaimed box office successes, but she remembered the rules of superhero movies.  Don't be seen until you're ready to make an entrance.

OOC:
21:25, Today: Ariadne rolled 12 using 2d6+4 with rolls of 4,4.  travel through shadow.

(Nice! See, Moving Through Shadow doesn't always have to be hard! It's when you try to do it in an emergency, like Cousin Lance, that leads to trouble!)

The carriage driver (whose name happens to be Osbert, by the way) nods now and then and "mm-hm!"s approvingly here and there along the way as the landscape changes.

Then, when Ariadne feels like she's 3/4ths of the way there, he stops making any noise at all, just looks around quietly.

Finally, the carriage comes to a stop in a deserted street.

Osbert stands up. "Well I'll be a dolphin's second cousin! I wondered, the last five minutes, if you'd taken a wrong turn, but when I stand up, I can just see the top turret or steeple or whatever it is of the big gold palace over the top of those apartments or whatever they are! This is Tanus, sure enough! Whenever Prince Julian comes here, we always come over a rise and see the whole valley before coming on down into-- You just skipped that, and popped us right into the city itself! Were you trying for that on purpose?!" His tone makes it clear that he suspects Ariadne did do it on purpose (as indeed she did).

Jade hugs Ariadne, "You did it, congratulations !" She has a big smile on her face.

"Everyone we are here !"

Jon steps out of the carriage and smiles up at Ari. "Great job! that was pretty seamless too."

Ariadne chuckled and grinned at Osbert.
"Yes, i was thinking that since we're not well known, for better or for worse, it might be better to ride into town with some subtlety, rarher than a lot of pomp and circumstance"
Granted, if this had been an accident, she probably wouldn't have admitted it to the driver. It felt like a bad idea to admit to failure to her driver, despite the fact that he probably lnew more about Shadow Walking than she did.
Still, that was a worry for another time.   For now, she just basked in the Congratulations for a job mostly well done

"So walk into town, ok uhmn someone help me down, please."