I don't think anyone has got the skill Animal handling, but you get your Wis mod to add to rolls. So Arveen with the highest Wis would get a +3.<br/><br/>This obviously smells of ambush, with the arrows likely to have been shot from the bushes and embankment on one or both sides of the trail. I would suggest that Arveen and Sapphire with the best ranged weapons use the wagon as cover and be ready to fire whilst Merry and Kaldara who have no long ranged weapons dismount the cart, enter the bushes on one side and approach on foot.