Northstar Vale after many miles

After saying goodbye to Beau and with a belly full of duck, Disa headed east. She climbed the mountain in a slow zigzag and paused often to admire the increasingly spectacular view of the valley below, wondering which field or forest or peak she would eventually call home.

Perhaps here, she thought upon descending into paradise several hours later. It could be this place.

The vale was a work of art - but empty. The longer she wandered among the trees, the less it appealed - a silent, beautiful bowl, hidden away and visited by few. An place for a largr family.

So she was surprised to hear a howled conversation, with one side coming from someone relatively close by. A search eventually revealed a large woman dressed in the colors of beaten metal and wearing pair of contrasting orangen eyes that were visible even from a distance. Disa made what she hoped was a friendly noise when she stepped into Easy's eyeline, ears sitting high in her head.

"Do you live here?" Disa called, raising her voice enough to carry it the twenty meters that separated her from the fire-eyed stranger.