Bonesaw brought bait! It is very effective once she has managed to keep it from squirming out of her hands. After a bit of slapdash brain surgery they have two deer following them around.

The deer slow them down - they're quick in short bursts but need more rests, at least before they have modifications - but will hopefully speed them up soon.

They can speed up to the point of not slowign them down within hours, and by dawn of the next day they are ridable.

"Do you want something to help you stay-up longer? I can combine our mounts into one Friend once we stop for a couple of hours I think, than we can take shifts steering."

"I've been singing myself awake but if you have something else that would help it'd make it easier, the song's not perfect."

Bonesaw can inject something through Beka's eye into her brain that does wakefulness.

"That won't actually help with physical fatigue too much, so avoid using your muscles. Also your dreams might be a bit more vivid than usual next time you sleep."

"'Kay." She can ride with as little muscle use as possible till they're far from where they were tracked down.

Eventually they camp for the night and Bonesaw can merge their mounts into one. The next few days will be exhausting regardless, but they'll outpace any attempts to search for them and once they find a safe spot to make a new home they can stop.

After a while they can stop looking for ways to get farther away and start looking for places that look nice to stop at and settle into.

"That's a nice looking river," Beka says. It is, wide and slow and with shallow banks and lots of willows bending over it, plenty of fish. They can find a treehouseable stand of oaks just barely out of the sightlines on the water.

"Oh! I wonder if I could catch fish with an automatic net thing - it would be easier than hunting so often."

"Maybe! I don't think it would've occurred to me that you could make a net that worked by itself, unless it was also a creature? It'd be neat though!"

"I'd do some sort of seaweed I think..."

But that's not what comes first, first comes a basic campsite for that night and then a lab and in a few months there's fresh fish and a treehouse full of fruit and window leaves and glowing shells. 

Bonesaw still needs to search for wild animals herself sometimes, if only because deer are better subjects for her work than salmon. 

Beka doesn't mind fishing. It's not hard and the fish are pretty tasty even totally raw if they're fresh from the river.

In addition to deer, there is some evidence that there might be omnivorous bipeds around here somewhere. Ones who gather firewood, maybe, if you're paying attention to how many sticks there are on the ground.

Presumably orcs but she really doesn't want that to be the case because then she'll have to move again and she just got everything set up and she really really doesn't want to do it again.

She can discreetly search for confirmation - maybe it's elves or something.

It's hard to tell by looking at their firewood collection habits. If she follows scent trails they don't super smell like orcs?

Weird! Maybe it will be more obvious once she finds their camp.

She can track that down. There's a sleeping human and another one who is tending a fire under a turtle shell full of gruel.

Uh.... What?? She is pretty sure that someone would have mentioned if there were other humans. She... is going to watch for a bit. Maybe nab one of them if she can get them alone. 

Well, the sleeping one probably won't notice if she nabs the cook. Looks pretty out of it, maybe feverish. There are some breathing sounds inside some lean-tos but they don't have visibility either.

The soup in the shell is being stirred with a stick.

Well that won't do at all!

Bonesaw will march right in and begin doing a check-up on the sleeping one.

The stirring human notices that and leaps up and says something in Not Orcish, brandishing the stick.

Bonesaw shushes her! Her friend is sleeping after all.

This will get Bonesaw inconsiderately hit with the stick and shouted at!

It will not get her hit with a stick unless they are quite a bit faster at hitting people with sticks than a baseline human! She can even do the check-up while dodging.

That alarms the person quite a bit and the shouting continues, rousing nearby other humans who come to see what the commotion is and surround their sleeping sick friend to make Bonesaw's life inconvenient.