Something was wrong. Christine was currently observing the village after traveling here for two and a half days. She suspected it would have been two days but she had gotten a little lost on the way. Once reaching the village she chose a place to watch it from but made sure to check the area so she wasn’t ambushed yet again. She became satisfied that no one was going to pop out at her after an overly thorough search of her surroundings. Now that she was done with that she started to watch the village and Christine realized, "wait, so I'm spying on these people, is that an ethical thing to do? I mean, I guess I'm just trying to analyze the danger and communication potential of these people so I guess it’s not too bad.” Deciding to think about that possible violation of her morals later, Christine focused on the village. As she watched the village she noticed that no one was outside of the village walls, which seemed a little odd to her seeing as how the last time she had been here there had been people wandering freely outside of the walls. She had briefly considered that the village had been abandoned for some reason but quickly dismissed that idea when she saw several lines of smoke and realized that some people must be using their fireplaces. So, why wasn’t anyone outside of the walls?

While thinking up reasons for why no one was outside the village Christine did see someone outside the village walls coming from a door. Upon noticing the person she immediately focused on them and quickly realized they were heading in her direction. She tensed up but as the person came closer she realized they were going to enter the forest a few dozen feet to her right and while she would have to be careful they didn’t notice her, they didn’t appear to be coming after her. The being walked into the woods where she thought they would and once Christine believed they were far enough away not to notice her, she started to follow them. She hadn't been able to get a good look at them before, but as she followed them she could tell they were a dark-haired woman with what appeared to be a bag at her side along with a crossbow on her back. Although Christine couldn’t tell whether they were human or just similar to a human in appearance.

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After following the woman for several minutes the woman stopped at a small clearing. She walked over to a boulder and crouched down, she took the bag from her side and appeared to start picking something from the ground then putting it into the bag. The woman kept doing this as Christine watched. After several minutes of picking the humanoid stood up and went in a different direction than she was going in previously. Deciding to keep following the woman, Christine did so as stealthy as possible. They traveled for twenty more minutes before the person being followed stopped again, this time at a dense grove of trees where the shadows were deep for this time of day. The woman picked more of the things but Christine couldn't tell what they were from the distance. She riskily crept closer to the woman to get a better view. From this distance the camouflaged raptor saw that the woman indeed did appear to be a human and not just a humanoid. Christine also saw that it was mushrooms the human was picking. The human suddenly stood up and Christine stilled with her heart pounding hoping the woman hadn’t seen her but she simply left in the direction of the village as Christine laid in the underbrush. Christine could follow her even more, but she wanted to find a place to sleep for the night before watching the village again./