As the foul-mouth stranger left, Liselotte was left without much left to look into. "I suppose he wouldn't have known either." She sighed, stepping inside an inn after returning to the settlement. Standing in the waiting room was enough, and she wasn't in the mood to rent a room for the night. The alchemist was still worried for her mount, but she had to wait until morning came. The evening hours didn't pass by fast enough. As night drew to a close, the clouds blocked out the moon and cast a dim shadow over the land. The search of the stranger was fruitless if he was searching for more werewolves. The forest was quiet for once, and uneventful. Perhaps that was a good thing.

The next morning, Liselotte went out first thing to check on Basil. He was fine, but waking him up took longer as he had been cold. Marcasite was still sleeping soundly, so she carried her as she saddled the Harenian lizard for the journey ahead. "I'm sorry for forgetting to add more kindling before setting off to town. I'm glad you two were alright." Padding along, Basil replied. 'You looked worried when you came to get us. Did something happen?' With the sun now bright in the sky, she patted him on the head. "Yes, but I'm fine now. And knowing you two were safe and sound is more than enough for me. Let's head towards a larger place. Both of you deserve a good pampering after staying out in the elements." Her travel bag began to move as the little wyvern was now awake, and they set off to the eastern seaside. From there they would move northward to Arri. She needed to restock on a few rarer items after pouring every poison powder she had into that laced arrowhead, and the Afthonia bazaar was the prime place to look.

After a fair amount of walking, Xetera finally found… Nothing. ''Damn it.'' The demon found what he thought was one of the wolf things sleeping, but it was really just a very, very hairy human. In his anger, Xetera's dagger ''Accidentally'' slipped out of his hand and through the sleeping man's head. ''Oops!'' Xetera said the word Oops with a disgusting amount of pleasure.  ''Next time, don't look so much like a wolf. Okay?'' But hey, he thought, his skin looks pretty tough, I could skin him and sell the skin, saying it's wolf skin or something. "Hah!'' Sometimes Xetera thought how it was funny how awful a person he was. ''Anyways, enough dawdling. We've got wolf things to kill in front of dumb animal lovers.'' 

After a fair amount of searching and killing of smaller, more defenseless animals, Xetera decided to take a rest. After much searching for a good place to sleep, he couldn't find anywhere comfy and decided to move on. '' I'm not weak. Like a human, or an elf, or a dwarf, or virtually anything else. Except for giants. I respect them quite a bit. I don't need sleep. What I do need is a wolf thing to kill.''