No tracks... she'd lost the trail effectively, unless such a large bird suddenly took flight.  She sighed... but noted something out of the ordinary: apples, demolished.  Glancing out the corner of her eye, she noted a green feather... finger length, and as she went over to pick something up, she spotted something in the stream.  Kneeling down to get a better look, she flipped over a stone, and there were a bunch of shiny things.  Gold, silver, bronze... and the ring she was looking for!<br/><br/>Picking up the ring first, then putting the other metals in her pack with the other hand, she looked it over, and it seemed undamaged.  Good; and while she hadn't found the bird - or the scythe, oddly enough - she'd at least accomplished the mission.  She could head on home now... though she would head over to the feather and take a look at that first, but chances are she'd be on her way back to the farm after grabbing the feather, a job well done and, hopefully, a job done<em>fast</em>.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">That's basically what I was going for; scour the area to try to find new tracking opportunities and a general search as well.</div></div>