WAS: Decline the offer and continue traveling alone.
From Create Your Own Story
"I am sorry, but I have lots of distance to cover and so little time," you reply.
The woman seems quite disappointed in your offer. By now the two men have lifted the girl up on a long pole so the two of them can carry the slave on their shoulders like a freshly killed fawn.
"Very well. Good luck to you, but let me reward you with some advice: Beware the foothill trail, take the higher road. There are beasts lurking about in the plains, so its best to keep to the boulder fields," she adds and waves her men back to the trail with their prey.
You carefully watch them leave and once you are certain you finally turn around back to the south. In a moment you discover the fork she spoke of. The lower trail would be the easiest as it goes down hill and surrounded by long golden grass. The higher trail winds itself up some rocky bluffs and would take the longest.
Do you:
