Bramblepoint With all of the faces

"Hmm..." Wraen examined the trail moving first along the tracks in one direction than in the other. They could be, but it was hard to tell for sure - snow had it's way of changing the appearance of the footprint. Besides it did not smell right either.

She followed the trail accross the ice covered pond to the place where the tracks continued on the other bank and further in the woods. She would have turned around and repeated the examination, had she not noticed a thin, black and white and long needle in the snow. Happy about her find, she picked it up carefully and returned to Korei Julia.

"This was not a beaver," she told the girl, after she had put the object down. "Do you know, which animal wears needles as a coat?"