Clues

Timestamp: Ostiarium forest - Afternoon -

Jiyn nodded at Islana's comment, taking a few tentative steps back. The carnage in front of him reminding him of the attack on the monastery he grew up in. Not found memory
"But he surely knows something about what happened here..." He said trying to shake some of the old images from his mind.

Hendrik grunted. "I have see people do some pretty scary things in my time. Regardless of age." He look at the young lass, a slip of a girl and wondered if he should have brought her along. The world could be brutal with one so young. But she was here now and might as well use her. He wished that damn Apotechary hadn't gone away in some forsaken mission, he could have used the man's skills identifying the remains.

He still could not make up how many corpses there were inside the shallow ditch. Three, maybe four if he had to guess. Had something told him some were natives.

"Right. We don't have much time." We don't want to be stuck here after sundown. You two look around for clues. Anything that might look out of place..." He ordered Islana and Jiyn. "I will search the bodies..." He whispered making the sign of the horn, in protection against evil.

As if on cue a dog or wolf started howling is the distance. It was answered in kind by several other throats to the north and south. Hendrik looker back to the forager who was nowhere to be seen...