Unlike Galsek, the Altmer woman did not cover her tracks in any way. Turala and Ahnasha did not need to put forth much effort to following her. With the silence between them and the pace they kept, it seemed like barely half an hour before they caught up with something that gave them pause.

It was a different scent in the air to the Altmer that made Turala stop and stand to discern it. It was stronger, made by many people. "Do you smell that? There might be a settlement nearby." Turala spoke for the first time since Bruma. She began moving forward again, far more focussed on the road ahead. "The only thing I know of around here is a hunting lodge, but it has never housed so many as I can smell. At least, as long as I've come across it. The last time was a couple of months ago."

As the pair got closer, Turala veered off the Altmer's trail. She sneaked through a copse of trees off the road and wheeled around a small snow covered bluff before squatting low and shuffling up the bluff until she was peeking over the top of it. "You should see this," Turala said while gesturing Ahnasha to look over the bluff as well.

Over the bluff, a distance away, was a luxurious looking, two-story wooden hunting lodge. Judging by the broken windows, it wasn't maintained too closely. The general mess around the building spoke of squatters. What caused Turala to show worry were the characters gathered out the front of the lodge. Roughly sixty armoured mercenaries were lined up in rank and file. Each either had magicka potions on their belts, spears and shields in their hands, or some other manner of weaponry. All bare metal on weapons reflected off the sun with a lustre indicative of silver and several of the mercenaries, more notably the leader, wore trophies of fangs or dark fur. They were accompanied by a regal looking figure who appeared to just be watching the show, and next to him was an Altmer in a plain dress and apron who looked as if she hadn't slept in weeks, their quarry. "That is a large group of lycan hunters." Turala ducked her head down until it was behind the bluff and looked to Ahnasha, "What should we do?"

Just then a shout was heard and the hunters began to march over to the road and begin travelling. There were no other packs living in the clan's territory that weren't already in the clan.

Continuing the trend, Meesei found no signs of humanoid life in the area, both throughout the high ground and down the gorge after Galsek. Once they were through the gorge, they found more open terrain again and found that Galsek was now heading west, back in the direction of the first gorge. The revelation brought a snarl from Oswall, "He is leading us on a goose-chase! He doesn't mean to ambush us at all, he must be drawing us out for his own amusement!" A realisation caused Oswall to look thoughtful, "Unless his plan is to tire us, I suspect the snake wants a force from our clan here for some reason. I do not like this."