stay, and what supplies they can. when the men go off to hunt, walter stays behind to talk with him. the man tells him that a path nearby leads to the men of bear, ferocious people that will kill him if he enters there land. he also tells vaguely of how he went on a journey, the first step of which involved stepping over the body of another. when walter asks if a nearby trail was the first step in that path, the old man says it was not, but walter thinks he is lying.
walter takes the path in secret, and after a tough journey over mountains, finds himself in 