Inner Peace?

Morning came sooner than she'd like but Aerndis willed herself to get up and get moving. She was working her way southward, planning to go through the battlefield so she didn't have to go over the mountain ranges that impeded travel farther east.

Her travels brought her into a forest with massive redwood trees. Her neck craned up as she looked at the tops of the trees and marveled at the girth of the trunks. Some of the trees looked so big she was pretty sure she could live in them! Aerndis started working her way deeper into the forest, pausing as she came across one that had fallen. It was partially held up by a few other trees that had caught its fall. All in all she thought this would be a rather cool place to live, not just explore. All that said though she had no idea how big the forest was so it was time to do a little crafting.

Thistle had taught her how to make various kinds of trail markers such as stacking stones but that didn't look like it was going to work here. There wasn't much on the ground for her to use.so she'd have to try marking one of the trees. Aerndis stared at the nearest large tree. Ok, how was she going to do this? She leaned back on her hind legs, picked a spot and started scratching.