>Let's return to the rim and search the last bit just to be sure.
>If we don't find anything return to Maribel.
>You make your way back to the mountains and continue to follow them. Making your way back around, you don't find anything new of note, but you do find a notable stream that you have to step over, which you are certain is the one that you have followed and crossed several times before. Looking along it's length, you can see the roots growing along its banks here and there, and still feel a cold sense of discomfort, even though they seem so tiny and insignificant now. As well, you see a small clearing not too far from there. with the tiny shrine resting in the middle of it.
>Soon, you make your was back to the path you cleared beforehand, and return to Maribel. You find that in your absence she has cleared out a sizable area around the gap, having uprooted trees and cleared out foliage. In fact, it seems she has also cleaned off the excess roots and branches from some of the trees, and stacked the resulting logs into a little house in a corner of the clearing, thatched with leftover brush. As well, you note that she seems to have woven a few of the more flexible and less properly wooden trees into something like a flower crown, which she wears over her usual cap.
>"What did you find out there?" she says, sitting in the middle of the field she has cleared out.
>_
