I found a mostly smoke-free draw some ways away and made camp there. I grilled the last of my corkbulb and a piece of Trama Root for dinner. The guide is right: it is technically edible.

25 of Last Seed

I spent the morning planning my route back - the path I had taken snaked around a spider-y ridge, and I decided I could cut the distance in half by hiking up to the top of the ridge and following the ridge back to the dwemer ruin.

I followed the draw I had camped in toward the ridge. I happened upon a camp of two dunmer. I shouted a greeting, and saw one of them nock an arrow. I darted behind a boulder. The one without a bow tried to rush me, but I stabbed him as he rounded the boulder to my hiding spot. The draw was full of such boulders, allowing me to approach