The scene stretches on. A few scattered and oddly square trees dot the plains. A few dandelions and poppies add a splash of color to the greens and browns.
Hmm. Well, at least her little adventure didn't injure here, and this piece of flint here might do the job.
What she _really_ wants is a stick to lash it to, but that seems to be a scarce resource, probably because she's missing her stick too much. Stupid Night magic. Stupid Dreamscape.
Time to try out her next two ideas; opportunistic stone-throwing at rabbits on the way to the nearest tree, and stripping some bark off a tree with the knife and constructing a pile of kindling. Not that she has any idea how to get a spark yet, what with the distinct lack of pieces of wood, but she might be able to... make bark twine? Or are there any nice long, stringy looking plants, like nettles?
...no, first is 'how to carry more than two rocks'. She tries scooping some up in the hem of her robe, it's not the most dignified thing that has ever happened but it's the closest thing to a bag. Why doesn't she have her bag. In her dreams she normally has it, that's how much she always carries it around...
If she focuses on wanting to store something while holding it, she’ll probably realize she’s been granted a pocket dimension for storage!
...right, yes, of course, this is some kind of stupid Night Realm dream, of course she has a magic pocket.
There is some merit in that daft Highborn proverb about gift horses, though, so she practices stashing and unstashing her rock supply for a bit before heading out on her Acquire Kindling, Twine and Maybe Incidentally Kill Some Bunnies With Thrown Rocks plan.
She will absolutely be able to scrape some bark of a tree! If she does so, the bark will disappear off a decently large section of the entire tree.
Throwing rocks at rabbits works fine, although they disappear as soon as they die and leave behind meat and a pelt.
This is an _unusually neat and fastidious_ dream which is not at all what she was expecting from the Dreamscape, but then again it's Night, that means 'things that happen specifically to subvert her expectations' are entirely in character.
She collects some rabbit meat and pelts anyway, might as well now she has magic pockets.
Now she really needs fire. Unfortunately all the Making Fire In The Wilderness methods she knows start with 'use the firelighting steel you definitely didn't leave in another plane of existence' or 'use the magnifying lens you just happened to have', or at least 'take your thin sturdy branch and your largish piece of fallen wood and ideally some twine'.
Oh well. Raw bunny doesn't sound so appetising yet but raw salmon wasn't too bad. Hopefully whoever is blatantly toying with her gets bored before she gets fed up with fish.
So. Next up is shelter. That also generally starts with saplings, which are a bit thin on the ground.
Maybe a bit more exploration will find a cave or something else useful.
Making sure to not lose track of the river, she expands her search radius. Looking for anything that might turn into twine - anything a bit longer and sturdier than grass, any fruit or similar (although her standards are rather higher now she has a secure food source), any sign of smaller bendier bits of wood, and natural overhangs or caves.