<br/>Alphonse smiles at Quinta and gives her a wink. "Always. I have to be when among Big Folk," he says giving the warrior woman a wink and looking her up and down slowly before slipping out.<br/><br/>Outside, he looks about the farm and thinks back to before the birds came.<em>She over this way, yes?</em>Alphonse heads over and shortly finds the shoe prints that could only be the girl's. She moved at an easy speed until she hit the actual crops, then ran to the ditch and stopped for a bit. The halfling looked this way and that, but only sees sign of the terror bird at first. When he relocates Hallen's tracks, she seems to have resumed an easy movement towards the river and the swamp.<br/><br/><em>I will tell the others in a moment. First, though...</em><br/><br/>The ranger squats down by the side of the irrigation ditch. There was sign, as before, that something may have been buried in the mud, and he sees if he can find it--using a stick or<br/>stout piece of broken cane to prod in the suspicious ground. Very quickly, he realizes the mud has been disturbed because Hallen had been hiding in it. Alphonse scratches his head and shrugs to himself.<em>Maybe she go to wash up, or think hiding in water better idea.</em>He scurries back to the house and tells the others what he has discovered.<br/><br/>