How had she known that someone would enter that clearing from such a large distance away? Then I saw that arrow in the tree once more, this time approaching it, then looked across the clearing. It was simple! She had not known that someone would be there, because they drew first. They saw her first! Yet she had the upper-hand, brilliant! I then understood the events of her duel with the man bare in the white powdery water.
She was possibly camped nearby the tree where she had stopped for the night. The slashes, she had left them because this was a completely new area for her, as she probably is often on the move. I dashed back toward her direction as the events filled empty spaces in the board of a puzzle. She did not know he was there, because he struck first. Or tried to. It was difficult to not find that comedic. I could not wait to learn more. She must have left something valuable where she had stopped. Otherwise there would be no reason to