November 14th, encounter with a ferret.
The ferret alternates between hissing and barring its teeth at you, and scampering after the thrown food. Any attempts to touch the animal are greeted with displeasure from the small creature (with very sharp teeth). Eventually, it seems to have had enough and dissappears into the trees.
After about 30 minutes in total, you are mounted again and heading down the other side of the hill. The path continues for several hours this way, twisting and turning its way up and down (although generally up) the hillsides. The air begins to getting noticably chillier as the sun begins its decent to the horizon, and you pull cloaks and coats close around you.
You reach the brow of a hill, and the sight before you stops you in your tracks. The path runs through a small clearing, and dotted around the clearing are several poles firmly planted into the ground. Atop the poles are heads - some recently fixed, some semi decayed. A few of goblin heads, a human head, and one larger one you do not recognise, all with sewn-up eyes and mouths.
ooc: the first pole is about 30 feet from where Bendyn is now, and the clearing is about 100 feet from one side to the other along the axis of the path. Its about 60 feet at its widest point. The poles seemed to be spaced randomly, about 10-15 feet apart. There are no poles obstructing the path.