Velbrik shrugs. "This isn't really our usual line of work anyway, as you may have guessed," he says, and in the same breath, turns to address the air. "Troi, have you found anything yet?"
Troi hears Velbrik's question. Still looking at the tracks, he whispers a reply. "There's three, maybe four of 'em." As he speaks he tries to determine which way the tracks are headed. "They're tryin' ta hide their tracks, so it'll be little harder ta figure out where they're headin'. See anythin' on yer end?"
"Doubtful, man." Troi whispers. "If there's three er four on this side, an' I'm only on one side a th' trail... there mighta been that many on th' other side. We don't look so mean that six ta eight guys are gonna run from us... they're plannin' somethin', I'd guess, but I dunno what... chances're we'll find out soon enough, y'know?"
The tracks are moving away from the road, and that's all you can see at the moment. How far will you go, and how fast? Half speed is normal when tracking; you can go full with a -5 penalty to the survival check.