"I've already got skills for understand base ten, but if it was a base I'd never heard of I'd have to do a few arithmetic problems before I could stop thinking about it."
They start loading bodies back into the carriage. The fact that they're taking with the whole bandits, and not just their armor and their heads, is going to slow down the carriage some. Haroun considers raising this topic with Bella, and decides against it. Haroun doesn't really want to cut off heads and strip off armor and bury bodies where they won't attract monsters, and he's guessing that neither does Bella. They should still make Relis before nightfall, even with the extra weight.