<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Roll a Listen DC25 to hear the guards as they search the nearby roads after a time</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>You begin to travel through the trees and the woods of the nearby forest, heading north towards Westhaven, which is easily a two week trip on horse, but is likely to be a month on foot, with a number of towns in between.  The forest is quite green and healthy, quite a nice place, though probably not so much for a city girl like you.  Your movement is slower compared to the average traveler's, as you have to navigate the woods and it's many obstacles, whereas the road is nice and clear.<br/><br/>However, this area of the continent is renowned as being one of the safer regions, as their is little else to worry about besides the occasional wild animal, and even then they're usually not much tougher than wolves or smaller bears.  You'll find your trip to be quite long and boring for a good week or so, assuming you will eventually move back to the road you will be able to make decent headway after a short while in the woods.  By the end of the week, you notice the fist signs of other life: a small caravan heading the opposite direction of where you're heading, two horses being led by a halfling, in a wagon with another one manned by a young human woman following right behind.<br/><br/>The caravan doesn't appear to be in a hurry, but they do keep a close eye on you as you near, since to them you're dressed quite weird, which makes you a tad suspicious.