Grouse Thicket Hakkerskaldyr.

If he thought her to be stupid, he would not say. Although many of Tulimaq's cousins and comrades were thick-skulled creatures too, so he was accustomed to mindlessness and more feral behaviors. It had struck him as odd when he'd arrived to the Wilds that so many wolves used language to communicate (not that he wasn't happy for it); so this woman's delay was acceptable. A bit odd, sure, but so was her speech. Tulimaq wondered if there was something deeply wrong with the swarthy stranger — maybe the grouse was laced with something? That would explain her reluctance to eat it as well as her impediment. It didn't enter Tulimaq's mind that this woman might be deaf.

He got a little bit closer, eyeing the grouse with a little bit more skepticism. She'd offered that to him freely -- maybe she was trying to trick him? Poison him? But that made little sense too, coming from a Redhawk to a Firebird. He looked to her and said, A couple of hours. Its not a difficult hike at all, but can be confusing if you've never made the journey before. There were many dark paths in every forest.