[center]Arya had taken it upon herself to explore more of this fascinatingly diverse, open, foggy woodlands that were before her. As the adults and pseudo-leaders of this band of misfits was busy conversing about having a scouting party and ensuring the safety of the group as a whole, the spunky young noblewoman had slipped quietly away with Needle firmly in her right hand. Finding an uncanny interest to even simple attributes such as flowers and basic vegetation, the lost Stark *boy* was more than overjoyed with this foreign yet familiar world before her. Even if she was insane, gone surely made from the suffering she was enduring, at least in her broken consciousness she was enjoying her moments of insanity.

Glancing behind her, the short-haired brunette made mental notes of her location. These woods, whilst vast and large, were very easy to maneuver as little shrubbery and spiny bushes blocked ways. Oddly, either by the work of man or by the work of nature, the trees were neatly spaced out to form makeshift *corridors* through the woodlands. Of course, there were some exceptions to this, and it didn't help that a slight fog had cloaked this shrouded forest. But, from a outsider's standpoint, it was evident that these woods had not been fully untouched by man. Knowing that this group was her only means of protection from the unknown, Arya set aside her ambitious pride as she returned towards where the majority of the group was still chattering. Standing on the other side of the roughly paved dirt-road presumably leading to Elyae, Arya bit the bottom of her lip for a moment as she casually twirled Needle in her right hand.

"I guess I'll stay in the back, keep an eye out for anything. I'm pretty fast." Arya blankly spoke to Veronika, still paranoid (and rightfully understood) of these strangers and knowing that her best friend at the moment was her beloved Needle. Letting out a soft yawn, the once noble wearing nothing more than a peasant boy's tunic and a dirty white blouse began to slightly wipe off the grime and filth on her face with the sleeve of her blouse. If anything, a bath would be more than welcomed at this point in her weary, confusing, seemingly endless cycle of constant traveling and sorrow. Feeling disconnected from the members of this group, the girl began to turn around to explore more until a faint yet distinct sound burrowed itself deep, deep into Arya's normally thick and resilient heart.

[i]Y'arrrrrrrrggghhhhhhhhh[/i]

Silence soon followed, both from the source of the sound and from the young girl's body itself. Breaths were hold, blinking halted, and if she even realized that her own heart wasn't even beating to begin with, it too would have frozen at the horrifically eerie groan of what sounded like a feral creature. At first, she disbelieved what she had heard, assuming that her crumbling state of mind from this abrupt transformation into a new world and the losses in her own world was beginning to consume her. Disbelief was written on her dirty yet angelic face, looking at the other members of the group with shocked-filled hazel eyes. Gripping Needle tighter, Arya's curiosity quickly diminished as she crossed over the dirt road and grew close to those in the group she had quickly grown to trust, which at the moment was Dave (whom at the moment seemed to be pridefully boasting of his swordsmanship)

"W-Was I not the only one that he-"

[b]Y'aaaaaaarrgghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh[/b]

Her soft voice was interrupted once again by the ominous groaning of this unknown, feral creature. The more she repeated the frighteningly disturbing groan in her mind, the more Arya couldn't help but shake the feeling of how human it sounded. Human or not, however, the mere feral nature of it was more than enough to unsettle even the brave and mighty Lady Arya Stark. Feeling her hazel eyes concentrate over the dirt road, staring within the lines between the Behemoths of Mother Nature, the preteen merely awaited as the light fog acted as a veil for whatever being lurked deep within these seemingly haunted woods.

They were not the only ones, and whatever was out there, it did not give the impressions of being friendly.[/center]