Iisska mustered the strength to get up and walk up behind Marquis, whom was addressing their intruder.

"Means us no harm? Pft," he mumbled at the droid, "What ever this thing is, and whatever its 'master' is, they've been watching us. I don't like it. We should get outta here."

He glared over his shoulder, across the lake, to the opposite shore which seemed barren.

"And go where, Iisska?" Nyrette asked, standing close to Quin with her arms crossed. "In case you've been plastered and brain dead for the last twenty hours, the ship is here. We have nowhere to go."

"I don't know, just away from here. We don't need the ship, we can just walk.  You know. With feet. I don't like weirdos watching me," he snorted.

At the mention of abandoning the ship, the death stare that Iisska received from Marquis was real.

"Yeah. Bad idea." Nyrette said. "I don't see the harm in at least seeing what they want. I mean, this for all we know could be his land. We don't know the rules of this planet, we could be jailed for the rest of our lives for sneezing in the wrong area for all we know. It'd be better to play the nice people instead of running away from a planet we're stuck on."

"You don't see the harm!? Are you for real? What if he's gonna eat us or something?"

She stared at him for a moment then pointed at Cheshik then Marquis. "Leather death and metal death. Probably won't work."

Iisska let out a groan and rolled his eyes before looking between Cheshik and Marquis. He could see from the way Quin was standing beside Nyrette with her arms folded that she wouldn't be swayed either.

"Cheshik. You're not okay with this. Right?" he asked.

"My brain agrees with you, but my squishy gut bits tell me that it will be alright if we listen to her, so I go with gut." He snorted and stood up, grabbing his sword. "Gut has lied only once, and it was on the subject of fish and raw quality. It has learned since hospital. Will not be wrong now."

Iisska slapped his hand over his face so hard it could be heard halfway across the lake. Incoherent mumbling came out of his mouth in a steamed hiss before he took a deep breath and stood up straight.

"Fine! We'll go talk to what-his-ass and I'll laugh while you all get chopped into snacks."

"While you...what? Become the first course?" Nyrette said and gestured at his stomach and smiled, turning towards the woman.

As the group stood up and stretched a bit, Cheshik slid over next to Quin and whispered into her ear. "That was burn like teenager use, correct? Should I write down for grammar lesson?"

"Yes. That sort of thing is quite important in the day to day, I would say," Quin winked at him.

Sitting down next to the fire pit, Marquis resumed his melancholy stance from the night before. "And nobody offers to stay at the ship. No. No. It is quite alright. I will stay." He huffed, unhappy.

Iisska's hand shot up immediately, "I'll stay!"

And just like that, Iisska would once again be finding himself dragged on the ground by the Cheshik in the direction of exactly where he wouldn't ever want to go ever. Again. As usual.

Quin sipped her coffee for a few long moments, watching Iisska scream his lungs out at Cheshik. A gentle little gnawing on her boot tore her away though as the energetic little pup had woken up as well and was trying to get her to play with him. A smile spread across her lips as she bent down to pry him away and give him a rub behind the ears before he started wrestling with her hand.

"You won't be alone, Marquis," she said, "this one is a little young to be coming with us."

Quin looked up at him with big eyes that almost mirrored the ones that the pup was now giving him as well.

He looked up to her and his eye seemed to lighten a little. "If I have to feed it I will probably not be-" He stopped as the little pup ran up to him and tried to jump up to his lap but failed. The Gentlebot leaned over and picked it up so it could bite and play in his lap. "I hate you." He said bluntly.

"That's adorable, Sterling," Quin purred, "I suppose we should get going. No use in moping around here."

Once they had all gathered the strange woman turned without saying a word and lead them into the forest. They followed her through an area they had explored somewhat the night before but very soon they lost sight of the ship and wandered far away from the explored area. Here the trees grew taller and closer together. Massive evergreens that stabbed higher and higher into the sky as they grew up the side of the foothills past the lake that gave way to a wide, jagged mountain range. That, however was a place far beyond today's destination. Mesmerized by the small glimpse she caught of them before the dark of the thick forest obscured the mountain entirely, Quin wondered just what could be out there.

She also had to wonder how this woman was finding her way through this forest, over the fallen logs, hills, ravines, the stream, the brush, etc... with no navigational devices, not even a trail. She didn't even seem to be looking at her feet or surroundings. Though now Quin had to ask herself if she could even see past that mask. Or if she even needed to see. Who was this person they were going to see? 

It was several hours of hiking before she felt that they had probably rounded the lake. The further they went the more nervous she became.