[Gretin]

As Silvia prepared and ate the food she pondered the situation. There wasn't much chance, or point, now of following the eagle any furthur. She decided in the end that the first thing to do now was to explore her immediate surroundings and try to find out why that place back there had seemed so familiar.
She started packing everything up to get on the move again, then saddled up the horse. Leaping neatly into the saddle, she moved off in the direction she and Roland had just been on foot before. She came up to the river and started following it upstream, the opposite direction she had gone to catch the horse before.
She carried on in this manner for some time, then the trees suddenly started to thin out until she came upon a clearing with an old dirt road running through it east and west. Across the other side the forestry thickened up again, but here it had all been cleared to make a path for the road. She hesitated for a moment, then started trotting down the road heading east.