all for one

Transit thread #1 (because having Szech magically appear at STM bothers me). Anyone can intercept! Prefer to spree her transit threads but feel free to hop in. Prior to the raid on STM, obviously. She's on her way there.

The mountains were forbidding, and she was not equipped to deal with them. The stout girl had felt a wave of unease settle about her as soon as she started, thus she turned tail and escaped back in to the forest - and then, finding her route to the south, around the mountain's base. Her face still hung with ragged flesh and dried blood; it still stung as if ablaze, as infection began to settle in. But she was alive, and would be for a little while longer. As her heading shifted in to the west, the dog keenly sought out a source of water, and found a vein of it coursing northward. She stopped to drink and found the effort strained her immensely - so she abandoned this too, and forced herself to keep on going west. Szechuan was half starved and dehydrated, her mind aflame and her body left wanting, by the time she reached the lake. Perhaps here her luck would change.