As Kyun was explaining the brash, bluntness of the bear's spell selections, both she and Niraya saw something off in the distance.  Four creatures, clad in desert robes, walking their direction.  Niraya couldn't make out the details, but as the fox woman squinted her eyes, she stopped in her tracks, patting her shoulder and telling the wolf to get down.<br/><br/>"Those are gnolls!" she hissed, creatures Niraya likely had only heard of but never had seen in Canis "Damn, how are they so far south?  Nasty creatures, violent and evil, as likely to kill you and rape the corpse as they are to rape you and then kill you.  They're hundreds of miles away from their borders, isolationists like the various nations of old, meaning either they've pushed through all of Ursas, or this is a scouting party or something of the sort..."