A Lanky, auburn-haired young woman with sharp, moss-green eyes and a dusting of freckles across her nose, clad in worn leather trousers and a simple linen tunic, smiles warmly as she carefully examines a fragile, intricately carved wooden bird perched on her outstretched finger, bathed in the soft, golden light filtering through the canopy of a sprawling, ancient forest at twilight.