[hider=The Lumberjacks]
Horik squinted closely at Aderyn with a look that was unmistakeably suspicion. The 'Cewri' didn't seem threatening. On the other hand, they seemed friendly. Still, their size made him somewhat nervous and heir blue skin was strange and unlike anything the lumberjack had seen before. They were all bewildered to come across skraelings, but admittedly the hostile and treacherous skraelings from their folktales didn't have blue skin or act friendly in the slightest.

A few of the other lumberjacks echoed Horik's thoughts on one another (in the Ards' language, of course) but in the end most of the younger men were trusting enough to take the dried meat that Aderyn held out. It looked and smelled good enough. Horik relented to their trust. Hoping that he wasn't making a mistake, he said, "Come sit by fire. It warm."

As the Ards walked back to their campfire a little ways away, half of them never took their eyes off the Cewri. Some kept their hands near the handles of their axes, but they didn't raise the weapons. One of the lumberjacks quickly added some twigs and such to the dying fire before splitting a log and heaping that on as well. There were a few lonely trees around and they had chopped one down for the firewood they were now using, but they needed to find a forest in order to build a logging camp that would last a while. 

After eating some of the smoked venison the other lumberjacks seemed to open up and become more talkative. They began to bombard the skraelings with questions. One of them that knew the old tongue rather well did most of the talking for the others. "You know where we can find lots of trees like that? And what are you doing out here anyway?" he asked.

After a while of silence as he allowed the others to talk to the skraelings, Horik voiced a burning question in his mind, "Where Cewri live?"[/hider]
[hider=Summary]
-Most of the lumberjacks are suspicious of the Cewri but a few eat the meat. They offer the Cewri to warm themselves by their campfire.
-They try to ask a few questions: if the Cewri have seen any forests, where the Cewri live, and what they are doing.[/hider]