Scrambling to catch up with Lathos, the new marching order is:
Lathos, Morglum, Arek, Nychus, Roland, RXI, Bob
The party travels for 15 turns (2.5 hours), carefully watching for signs of ambush or a return of the creatures, but spy nothing. The creatures tracks soon blend in with the pine needles and other growth on the trail. At the end of the 15 turns (and having descended some 80 feet since the start), you come to the south end of the largest and most desolate on The Hill. Clumps of grass growing here are brown and scraggly. Most of the ground is simply bare, cracked dirt, and the forest surrounding it seems especially dark and foreboding. The clearing's shape is like a teardrop with the party at the narrow, bottom end; it seems to widen out as it goes further north.