Shadewood You can't touch me there, you can't touch my body

For all her gusto and bravado, Alyx really didn't know the first thing about effective rat hunting tactics. Already she was spinning the web further in her mind, making up excuses for the inevitable failure so that he would not see her for the liar she was. All the while she led him through the woods, smelling rat but not knowing precisely where it was, until they found it completely by accident.

But they did not catch it—it was far too fast and wily for two pups. When it slipped away from them, Alyx laughed off the failure and told Valravn it must just be because she didn't know the forest very well, and maybe they would catch one later. So it was that they went off in search of more rats until something more interesting grabbed their attention and pulled them away.