<div class="floatright">(http://imageshack.us/a/img855/5968/dawnjp.jpg)</div><br/>Valerie takes her time, looking carefully over the tree and the surrounding area while she listens to the rumors.  After a bit, she finds a footprint deep and focused enough to show the others.  "See this?" she asks.  "No treads.  I bet the person's wearing moccasins.  If it is the strange guy coming from the forest, then he should be easy enough to spot by that alone."  She shrugged as she stood.  "He hasn't done anything, but nobody should be able to bend a tree like that.  Let me know as soon as you have a prospective target through the phones."<br/><br/>If the tree is blocking the path or anything, she'll also help to set it back up and away so that it won't be a problem for the others.  She could break the tree in half if necessary, but if they had other plans for handling the plant, she would leave it up to them.