Nat muttered with a mouth full of bread "Orcs are quite intelligent.. In their own way. As for the path.. It's a hunter's path. Or a halfling path." When Darlith suggested going back, even though Nat just came from there, he frowned and put some of his bread back into the backpack. "Alright, alright. Let us waste some more of our time, not like we're in a rush." he mumbled silently to himself.

He followed her back into the ditch, that started their whole search. She asked him to examine the ground for footprints as, according to her, that's where the trail should've started. Nat threw a glance at the broken wagon once again, then looked around. He knew it was pointless to look around a place that was ransacked left and right by orcs. Footprints were all over the place. The only thing that could be seen clearly were the wagon tracks, that led Darlith and Nat here. [i]Wagon tracks..[/i] The half-elf thought and suddenly got an idea. He shouted to the elf woman disagreeing to descend into the ditch. "Incorrect. Should the wagon have tumbled down this ditch [i]with our passengers[/i], they would be either dead or injured and captured." He slowly walked away from wagon debris site before waving the elf woman to go up instead of wasting time down there. 

"They jumped out earlier. Wagon tracks looked obscure in the forest moss, but I think it started wobbling here. If the wobbling actually started, it means nobody was guiding the wagon at that moment." he said pointing to the ground not twenty steps from the crash site. Nat rubbed his chin thinking and looked around some more. "If the wagon started wobbling it must've hit something on the ground." The half elf examined the area once again "There we go, a stone right here." he pointed to the ground, to a small boulder no bigger than a man's head. "This is our search start point, going backwards." 

Nat then followed the wagon tracks carefully studying the ground around them. He stopped about thirty steps from what he called [i]the start point[/i]. " A half rotten log. I can see some wobbling here, that ended about 5 steps later, so right here the wagon was still guided." Nat streched and smiled "This is our end point. If you're that determined to find them.. They left the wagon somewhere here."