This leant the perpetually joyful deer a natural, deep seated suspicion and caution bordering on paranoia. Trust was like gold dust, and spies were dealt with harshly. Thorax never did find out what happened to any changelings they uncovered but she could easily imagine some choice consequences. Foreigners, in general, were forbidden from entering the forest, apparently to protect the forest and fellow deer from foreign interference and conquest. That was reasonable, but to also protect the outside world from the forest... made little sense to Thorax. In any case, the Whisperwood tribe was close to the centre of the forest, bordered by a large number of other tribes, not all of whom were friendly.