There is a farm atop the western hillside that frames the draw, and their goat got through the fence and has gradually been grazing its way down the hillside toward me.
Addendum:
The goat is very friendly and very interactive. It has a wooden tag on its collar that has "Helga" burned into it in crude hand. I imagine it means a little more than livestock to its family - I am going to try to shoo it up the hill.
27 Hearthfire
Not many changes from yesterday, same routine as before. I'm nearly out of bottles and leather skins to store my potions. I think I will stay in this spot for a while. Karthwasten seems to have little troubles, and this land needs a healer other than the Mages' Guild and the alchemists store in the city: the farmers and peasants seem to be living in abject poverty, and when I ventured into the slums looking for the Cathay-raht's cousin, I noticed much of the same within the walls.
The war has been over for quite some time, but the land has not recovered. I imagine I could stay in