He snuck away after she'd lain asleep a good while, once her breath was soft and even. Although he was leaving her temporarily alone, he deemed Waymeet relatively secure and knew that her bear was out skulking nearby as well.
Now he wandered the open hillside beyond the wagons and farms, the darkness of the fields only broken by light of the full moon. He searched the ground and he knew what he sought well enough to tell it by outline. Some tricks he had learnt during his long wandering still retained their use, as it did now.
