Trot was definitely annoyed with Finna for attempting to get him to organize a search party to find Aesa when it wasn't uncommon for some villagers to get delayed while they are out and about with their tasks.  There hadn't been any kidnappings or deaths from the animals for years so he figured there was nothing to worry about.  He would've been more likely to have helped had he not been mad at Finna still for showing him up with deterring the bear from coming further towards the village's animals.  He gladly told her how stupid she was and how common it was for Aesa to hrug off her duties in the evening figuring that Aesa returned and just didn't make her presence known.  Trot felt much better after getting to yell at Finna for something that wasn't worth his or his men's time.<br/><br/>As Finna left the Magic Missle Kelson Eversilver one of the young boys from the town watched Finna as she left to head north to look for Aesa.  Finna noticed him out of the corner of her eye but ignored him as she headed off north as he wasn't the type to head out on adventure.  He was rather fond of her and she knew it but she was also betrothed to Xavven so all Kelson could do was watch her.  He found it rather enjoyable to hear Finna get yelled at and degraded in front of everyone.  He felt a bit bad about enjoying this so much but it was well worth any damage that it had done to Finna in his opinion as he watched her trudge north through the woods to go see where Aesa was.<br/><br/>The moon broke through the clouds as the sun had set giving enough light between the moon and the stars for Aesa to see through the trees to find her way north along the path.  The path was trampled down from the villagers traveling along the way towards the berries more recently to preparation for the ceremony to bring in their new leader.  It could be viewed as a celebration of the leader for the year in Eberk Dankil though there would be those who were celebrating the new leader as they felt it would bring about change in their favor as Jarith Gorton and his followers were looking forward to taking power in the village.  The trampled path had plenty of brush and bushes chopped up and pushed aside that were common for animals to hide in.  The tree cover wasn't so thick along the path to prevent light from getting through and the trees were more uniformed in line as if they had been planted in rows by the villagers to replace old trees which the village had to replenish the trees after the great war 100 years ago which left the forest devestated from being cut down to be used in defense and burned by attacking armies to prevent the supply.  The trees had grown large after so long but there wasn't the need for the trees anymore for the war effort and they had been left to grow.  Some saplings had been growing slowly but they were smaller in stature and due to the clearing for a path to the north weren't allowed to grow big enough to block the path north.  Outside of the path there was a bit of overgrowth with the bushes and brush that made it clear where larger animals and creatures travel through though in the darkness of night it was difficult to spot any deviations of the path but the path was easily decerned from the overgrowth that gave her ample opportunity to see if anything veered off the beaten path.<br/><br/>As Finna was walking noises were sounding perfectly for her that she could hear all the noises that were going on about her as she walked.  It was an unusual sensation to have such keen hearing but on the calm night with no one else about it made it easy for Finna to hear the noises about her in the woods.  She could hear the flapping of bat wings to her east and west and the scurrying of small feet up in front of her but unable to spot anything up in front of her as she walks along though knowing there was a creature up in front of her that sounded like some sort of rat to her as she was familiar with the creatures of the forest along with the bats flying around catching bugs in the air.  She also heard a quiet cooing from the north east  which she noticed a flash of light up in a tree branch as a she spotted an owl perched on its own on the tree before she looked back down towards the path to see a pair of beady yellow eyes reflecting light that gave her the location of the scurring of feet as she began hearing a hissing sound coming from the locaiton of the beady yellow eyes but couldn't get a full form of the creature but was able to tell that the creature was only about 30 feet up ahead on the path.