Nickolaus was a specialized hunter... or at least a soon to be specialized hunter. He was not so much surprised by the final arrival to the small gathering so much as he was surprised no one seemed to notice her. Joshua apparently had not even seen her sitting in the group for a short time. He had already known the familiar rune, or at least virtually known it. He was far more interested in the new arrival, as his training kicked in. The other soon hunters he had met before, and travelled long enough with them to know their abilities in theory, which was fine. But he needed to know the abilities of the new arrival more than he needed a "particular" familiar, and so placed the familiar as his second objective in his mind. After Joshua's explanation she got up and left, and no one else seemed to notice her do so... interesting.

The girls trick with the kris as interesting, and she disappeared into the forest after it. He quietly pushed off the tree, and spun on his boot heel, turning just to the right of where the girl had entered the deeper foliage. He quickly made his way into the woods after her, making certain the others made no notice of their similar direction. Upon entering the woods behind her, he kept off to her right side, stealthily observing from the shadowy edge of her vision, a familiar could wait, Nickolaus needed to know the other hunters skills... and the best way to know that was through observation.