"Easily enough." Three of her species appear made of fog and unmoving.

"Ah, I suppose convincing opponents are a bit harder."

She will gleefully spend a good hour just trying out various ways of running, jumping, hitting, spinning, hopping in midair, twisting around acrobatically, and generally trying to move very erratically while landing blows from all angles on the fog forms.

Eventually she stops giggling long enough to wonder, "I think the simple option is best for Aura, but perhaps it can be more specialized to turn away arrows and bola and slingstones, more than melee blows?"

"That is easy enough to do. Specializing will make it's more effective though obviously not absolute."

"Yes, very well. I imagine there would be math about it if I were particularly interested, such and such force over units of distances and time, but in fact, if I begin that path I will not waver from it for months and more. No more dithering! What have you in store for me outside the dream, hmm?"

"The realm you'll be visiting has a variety of people's you may speak with some more like you than others. There are also some monsters which would challenge even you should you seek them out. I don't expect those that stray as close to the local civilization as you will initially find yourself will be any challenge.

"I look forward to it. Language me the first one I'll likely need, please, and I shall be off."

A new language unfolds in her mind. If she's paying attention she might spot several new bits appearing around the space as her new powers are locked in. The fragment waits a few moments to give her a chance to ask for further delay and if she voices none in the next moment she finds herself at a crossroads. A simple sign points to settlements in four directions with distances the closest is Stonybrook, the other directions list Tarynsville, Rabbiton, and Compass, each further than the last.

She picks a direction at random without reading the sign (ugh), which turns out to be Tarynsville. She jogs quickly down the path, taking the chance to absorb some of her momentum into her salk so it's not completely empty.

Tarynsville is a bit of a distance at a jog. The surrounding forest has been cut back a good distance from the road with little fenceposts with crystals on top of them every fifty meters or so on alternating sides. It's not immediately clear what they're for. The forest itself is made of rather tall trees a mix of deciduous and evergreen. The sound of bird and other forest critters drifts out to her.

She slows down after a bit to study the strange familiar-but-not forest. After a while she starts trotting along through the non-clear-cut portion, still within easy sight of the path, checking out the insects and small animals and wildflowers and mushrooms and so on.

The forest does have mundane flora and fauna aplenty... they are however not its only residents. The first thing to attack her is a squirrel about twice the size of its more mundane counterparts and with razor sharp claws.

Hostile fauna is hardly an unexpected occurrence!

This seems like a good opportunity to test out her improved speed.

She will try to fight it with only her horns. She lets her fire wink out, even. Against such a small target, that probably means doing exceedingly strange flips and such.

She can succeed with her self-imposed restrictions. Once the squirrel is dead she feels a slight unfamiliar sensation of warmth that seems to flow into her from the squirrel's corpse.

"Godling, was that magic power, or favor?"

"A little of both. Creatures of that sort provide a little body magic on death and your means of defeat was showy enough to earn a bit of swagger."

"I see. Daring and awesome is the order of the day, hmm? I'll have to think of more stunts."

She continues her stroll, head aflame. Still not deep into the woods, but it'd be boring to just plod along the road.

There's a trickle of creatures attacking her as she goes. A couple birds one of which attacks personally while another drops noxious projectiles her aura deflects. A snake, a few more squirrels. The most threatening thing is a small swarm of a dozen mosquitos each the size of her hand.

She examines all the bodies briefly, looking at their muscle structure and overall body shape. Pauses to briefly weave some grass into a terrible awful cord and tie up some of the more substantial ones- Snake and squirrels, mostly.

Bugs. Those she burns with sudden flares of heat. 

They are all altered a bit to adjust to the increased size but less than one might expect if they have a firm understanding of anatomy. The bugs obligingly burn.

The attacks gradually start to get more frequent as she continues and after a certain point they suddenly become more coordinated. Something is now directing these attacks though what that something is isn't immediately evident.

Does the Something think she's a coward? She is not.

Nor is she an idiot, though. She goes back to the road and stands watchfully for a minute.

There is one more attack but it seems to be those creatures already pursuing her. The closest crystal lights up brilliantly just before they clear the forest's edge and stays lit until they are all dead. After that no attack comes for several minutes.

Ah, a warning system? She could continue the brief little combats, perhaps track down what was coordinating them... On the one hand, it's not like what she's seen so far is much of a threat. On the other hand, the road is a sign of a village and that's more interesting right now.

She'll run the rest of the way on the road, comparing the hostile fauna to how home works; The animals there are animals and don't go out of their way to suicidally attack stronger and larger beings. Eternal Adventure must be controlling them much more directly than the will of the gods does.

At a run it's still about three hours travel to reach Tarynsville. Long before she arrives she can likely spot the giant trees the village is built into the central tree is almost twenty stories but the surrounding trees can reach as high as ten. Bridges, tree houses, nets and more dot trunks and branches.

She's seen something like that before. It's sort of interesting. She explosively leaps to the top of a tree herself to get a better view. What kind of trees, what do people seem to be doing?

"Godling, improve my distance vision a bit, please."

Her vision improves as requested.

The trees are still a variety like the forest. The largest tree is a giant pine tree.

Creatures of several species walk around on the bridges, branches and platforms, some sedately others taking great leaps between levels and a few flying outright. Most are bipedal but quadrupeds are also common and a rare few stranger creatures can be seen.

There are what can be surmised to be occupied guard posts scattered at the outer edges of the grove but also play structure for the young, small gardens on larger platforms, and a variety of other structures. Overall, the people of this town seem relaxed.