For many days, it seems to Gus that everyone is reading books and writing onto parchment and saying to themselves “Hmmm” and “Oh, interesting”. He finds it more and more annoying and spends time each day traveling to the nearby forest looking for materials to make arrows and backup bow strings. Every once in a while Ethelred or Ezrin ask for help in gathering materials from the forest which Gus enjoys quite a bit and it raises his spirits. When he goes to the forest each day, he first asks if anyone needs anything.

The crow seems glued to Gus’s shoulder while in the fort and tent. When in the forest the crow leaves the shoulder and attaches to random nearby tree branches moving to be within 50 feet of Gus. Gus seems to never acknowledge the “bird” except to give it random found nuts or mushrooms from the forest. When the crow caws randomly and annoyingly Gus looks dead eyed at the ground like the mother of an unwanted child.

While in the tent Gus keeps himself busy with the creation of arrows and making backup bow strings. He whittles, cuts, guts, straightens, embeds, washes, curls and knocks. He seems to take longer than normal when going to the bathroom. When not busy he gets annoyed by the smarties sounding like they discovered the Westlands in their books and thoughts. Gus makes fun of them sometimes by repeating the strange words mockingly he hears them say. They usually look up and glare at him which makes Gus look away with a little shame..

After another forest retreat though, Gus seems to be refreshed and less biting towards his team temporarily.