Nyala found herself yearning for the longhouse. This way of living, so many people packed in so tightly yet separated by so many walls was boggling. Her people saw themselves as family, and living entirely under one roof made the winters much more survivable. About the only place she enjoyed were these places, the taverns. They had much of the feel of the long house. She vastly preferred ranging, striding boldly through the forest and, now that others were fading into the night she considered such herself.

"I will see thee anon, upon the morrow," she stated as she rose.

The tankards had warmed her belly and she was ready to wander the dreaming. Striding confidently, she stepped out into the rain. Unlike the city folk she wasn't concerned. They seemed to fear water. She instead turned her face towards it and felt it upon her skin. Such was a gift of nature, a gift of nourishment that fed the land and cleansed it. Pulling out one of her axes she leaped upwards, hooking it on a limned sign and swung up to the rooftop and let the city guard be damned. It was the fastest way to move through this city and she yearned for soft grass and loam beneath her bare feet once more. Within short order she was outside the city walls and moving through the brush and between trees. She'd rather hoped to encounter the druid from inside the tavern, he and his wolf, but picking up the trail could take hours and that was assuming that the druid didn't take precautions or use magic to conceal traces of his passage.

Choosing an area of raised ground she strung up a rain cloth between the trees and sat beneath it, carefully arranging her weapons beneath it. Then she set about setting up a fire. That the wood was wet didn't matter. City folk didn't seem to understand that wet wood, save for rotted timber, was dry within. Pulling out a knife she whittled out enough kindling from dead brush to get the fire started and then pulled out her tinderbox. Soon enough she would be dry but by then she'd be asleep. Then she would awaken with first light and move out to meet those upon the quest.