Herbalists' Cache Over grass and over stone

This was a longer trip.  It was maybe farther than he'd been before -- he wasn't great at judging distances but it seemed pretty likely.  Being away from the ones that he felt wanted to enslave him made him feel a bit better.  Like with the distance, maybe he was safe.  But still, he'd have to go back eventually, wouldn't he?  Sure, he'd told @Brilliance he was going on a trip that would maybe be a little longer than most of his advnetures, but that meant he was going to return.  He couldn't leave her like that.

Because of winter, the forest he walked through wasn't particularly exciting-looking.  Everything was covered in snow, and what useful plants there might have been (not that Mali would have known) were long buried.  It was just a forest.  It existed, and he wandered through it, sniffing around in case there was something edible buried around.  Maybe he could extend the trip another day or something -- he didn't expect to find anything super substantial.  But he still wanted to see what was beyond, what maybe existed beyond where his leash was tied.  Something better had to be out there, he just had to find it.