Ruby trudged through the snow, wrapping his coat more tightly around himself as a gust of wind blew. He could see the dark smudge of a lodging in the distance.
He had the usual goods, like wood, on a makeshift sled he pulled behind him. Hopefully whoever lived in the structure up ahead would trade some skins for it. He knew one person back in Serendipity who'd promised him something extra-special is he could get some for them.
He was tired and it was cold, but the house was coming closer into view...and so was another thing he hadn't quite anticipated.
Squinting, he saw a figure dressed all in black standing about twenty feet away from the house. She didn't look to be wearing what people in Hyoite normally wore, and something seemed slightly off with her. Ruby cast a spell of illusion and disguised himself as a flurry of snow so he could inch forward and get a better look.
All around the figure, wolves seemed to rise up out of the ground. Then they started going in the direction of the house. "That doesn't look good," Ruby thought.
Maybe he could use a little magic to stop her. He used more Glamour to create the illusion of a giant crevice in the ground, cracking open and separating the house from the wolves. But he stopped there, curious to see what else the girl would do.