The elf and the druid nod in agreement, and set out on their own, to scout the area, able to move more quickly without the rest of the party.<br/><br/>It would take most of the day for them to scout the nearby area well enough, but they'd return around nightfall with their report. The mites had set up their lair in the hollows under the enormous tree, while the kobolds were set up in a silver mine, about six miles to the southeast, across a river. They alsor eport seeing the sites of several more skirmishes between the two factions, scattered around the landscape between the two lairs.