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He regards her and answers. Though a question hangs in a delicate balance. He wants to move on from here, find a way down. She glanced back to where she had just come from and angled her body to face it once more. "Aye, that I do" her tone is polite, eyes drifting over the river that cut through the land "follow the water north and yer gonna see a dip in the elevation, rightly so." She would pause to allow it to sink in before continuing.

"See them there mountains?" she added, pointing out the eventual Crystallum Cliffs "between the start o' them and this here location is a dip ya can use to move to the thicket. Just keep to the water, sir, ya can't miss it." Upon a time, there had been a pack here. No longer did Abaven stand, Corbie's claim ran through the land in another location. The land would lower itself to access the Rustling Thicket.

The Rapids were also southern, able to be seen by the elevation of the Plains. It wasn't so hidden from the world. Not like it used to be, cut off by a claim.

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