Dragon Cypress and Ink Orchid's biggest concern was that while operating at sea or stealthily sneaking back to Cloud Trace Continent, they might bump into a certain Spider King heading to Leafcutter Island, get their origins seen through, and thus expose their smuggling route.
To play it safe, it was best to stagger their movements with the Flame Spider caravans operating here in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Dragon Cypress was quite familiar with the Flame Spider Tribe; they were orthodox tropical insects, with an innate nature: a distaste for frigid climates.
All routes of the Flame Spider roving merchants followed a unified pattern: they traveled through colder regions during summer.
Now,
it was cold winter in the Northern Hemisphere, while the Southern Hemisphere should be in summer.
According to this pattern, the Flame Spider roving merchants in the Southern Hemisphere were likely roaming even further south, near Antarctica, at this time.
