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Destin chuckles a bit at her suggestion. He looks around, exhaling softly. "C'mon, let's try close to the river." He didn't want to give up yet. He knew it was going to rain in a few short days, and didn't want to risk losing whatever semi-dry wood might be out there to find. Without making sure Misha was following, he began running through the trees, a hard look of determination on his face.
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Misha groaned and began jogging after him. She scanned the forest floor as she stumbled over the leaf litter, searching for any decent-sized chunks of wood. The outlook improved slightly as they crossed the forest, but she couldn't dispel the nagging doubt that an uneven covering of broken branches and small root wads would sustain the group if the temperature dropped another ten degrees - inevitably.