In Search of a Caravan
With that all taken care of, we head roughly back where we came from - taking the opportunity to cut the corner by canoeing over to the inland stream/lake to get to the desert. I do love a good canoe.
The desert seems to be no more treacherous than the rest of the area, and we head up to an area which while still desert, has a thin strip of grass around it. Walking into it we enter the Caravan.
It just contains a tent, labeled as an item store. Heading in, there's a solitary guy in there in what appears to be what one might call stereotypical desert garb. His store has only 1 item - a Bottled Faerie for 40,000 gil.
I think that ties back to some of the issues in Gaia, so we buy it, and are booted out of his store. I guess this is just to update his inventory though, as talking to him again displays his store as having various stat boosting tonics and drinks for between 1,000 and 1,500 gil each. We choose not to get any right now, as we've only got 150,000 gil, but it's good to know they're there.
More specifically, I believe the Faerie had something to do in the fountain in Gaia, so with that in mind, we head back to the airship and fly back over to the Eye of the Hawk.