When Nin came to this land years ago, it was in a traveling carriage drawn by a single pair of young goats. Since then, she's mostly left the carriage parked near the edges of town, in favor of traveling on foot or goatback. It still serves as her home, however, and she's managed to make it quite a comfortable home too.

The two goats have since become a small flock. The younger goats aren't quite like the two she started with—not quite like the goats of her homeland—because naturally she's had to breed them with local goats. But they're still very fine goats, if she's allowed to say so herself.

The past few years, her flock has grown, and this spring she's spent herding them around the countryside. Keeping an eye on her herd, keeping them safe and on the right path is a good way to spend her days and also gives her plenty of opportunity to explore the lands. There are few places a goat can't wander, and Nin follows to keep them safe.

She's also begun selling them and their products on the market, not that she intends for it to become a living on its own, but trade is a good way to ... keep an eye and an ear on what goes on in the local community. You get to know the kinds of people who tend to know other people, and at the market you hear a lot of things if you only keep your ears open.

That's what she's been doing, and if anyone knows about supply routes and missing supplies, it's surely the traders at the market.

What has she already heard?

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Tristan is impatient to get out of the city and hunt something, Nin can tell (it's not hard to tell), but hunting is mostly a waiting game. It's about lying still and listening, observing, waiting for the right signs.

Right now they need to find the right trail to follow, and that starts with missing supplies. If she hasn't already heard something that'll put her on the trail, someone among the traders will know what she needs to know.