"All heard!?" Oswall shouted to the assembled band. All of the warriors of the band pumped an arm or a spear to the sky and sounded a quick shout of "All heard!" in unison. Without any further delay, the warband began to jog through the snow. They left the thankful Nilly behind to warm herself by the last remaining fire.

The warband gave the city an appropriately wide berth as they caught up to Galsek. Though it slowed them down somewhat, it gave time for Meesei to realise when Galsek's presence seemed to circle around to a south-south-east heading, and eventually to a heading straight east, into the rising sun. This didn't immediately seem strange until his heading sharply turned north. By this point, the warband had caught up enough to slow their pace.

"I don't understand. Is he lost?" Janius asked idly, to no certain response from the others.

Harriet gave Janius a brief glance from her spot next to Meesei, but her expression seemed less confused. "I'm more curious about that Elf that he met up with. Where would she be going?"

Oswall sounded a grunt of apparent agreement, "Either Galsek's lost and desperate, or he knows he's being followed and he's leading us astray. I would much like to know why that High Elf saw fit to leave the city at all."