Bitterroot Valley That's what it's always been

And in the end it turned out she wasn't alone. Her wandering had turned a little aimless in the meantime. Yeah, Arbiter had decided this place wasn't worth too much of her time, and she would have better luck hunting on grounds she was familiar with. She'd just started towards the distant Bypass again when she had spotted someone headed right her way. Not anyone she was familiar with. 

He seemed a kind of cheery sort from this very cursory view. And it was probably a good thing this thread wasn't in the present because she'd be certainly considering whether she wanted to deal with anyone positive. Instead of that, she gave him a tilt of her head, Something brought you out adventuring? Easy enough of a question to turn back on her, but she wasn't exactly a small talk kind of wolf -- it was just another way of asking the same thing she always did.