Well, I'm not, yet, so I'm not wolf-shaped. ...Maybe we should just skirt the border and not transform. Better not to risk them trying to kill us. I'm going to come home to you safe no matter how long it takes.

I know you will. I love you. Be careful.

I will.

They skirt Doriath's borders. They do not turn into giant wolves.

Then it will be a very long slow walk.

Yeah the Ice may have lowered their standards by an order of magnitude. It's warm! They're not in constant danger of dying! This is fine.

There's not much in the way of things to eat but it is indeed warm and nothing tries eating them.

...If there is a dearth of edible plants and game animals near Doriath then she should probably get farther away from Doriath.

It's more that, the Sun having started existing two weeks ago, there's an ecology here that has very recently died and not been replaced yet.

Okay, well, they're not stupid, they have nonzero supplies, they'll just have to. Make it last.

And, hm, if things died two weeks ago, are there any nuts or edible barks or anything that're still good?

There is nothing recognizable.

Okay, new plan, get far enough away from Doriath that even if they see them turn into wolves and assume this is due to Enemy taint or whatever they probably won't shoot at them too much and then run in wolf form.

No one shoots at them.

Hooray.

Wolves are pretty fast. They're also much higher biomass than humans, at least when they're the size of horses, but they can turn back to consume food and water.

And they round the south end of Doriath and find a river stretching north-to-south on its west side.

...Now would be a good time to have a better idea of where Doriath was relative to home. She consults her husband.

He doesn't have any more information about that.

Should've planned better.

They knew that Doriath was south and east, at least, so if they go north and west as fast as they can until they hit something recognizable that should work.

Seems reasonable.

They do that.

They'll reach some mountains without an obvious pass through them.

...Does anyone back home know anything about these here mountains.

Yep! Now they know where the girls are! They send a map.

Hooray! ...They don't have to cross these mountains, right, that...might be bad.

They kind of do but there's a pass north and a bit east.

Okay. If there's a pass it's not far enough north that the mountains are going to be psychologically problematic, probably.