Blacktail Deer Plateau reporting the patterns row by line

Writing this from my phone... sorry for any glaring weird typos lol...

Once more they headed off, this time trailing towards the north. At the mention of a troll's nest, his interest was undeniably perked. "Can't say I've ever seen one," he said after a moment of thought. Now he had heard of such creatures like trolls, but they had always come in the form of childhood stories. So in a way, he did have his skepticism, but wasn't about to discredit the theory. After all, what if the reason trolls were stories were because they were all dead? History was funny like that.

"Are there a lot of them around here?" he went on to ask. Perhaps he had even passed by one by sheer accident, unaware of what it truly was.