Go over to Miranda

You want to check on how Miranda's doing, since she seems pretty out of it right now. {if@ SeenMiranda == True}She's standing by a tree and using her knife to carve something into the trunk's bark, and it's giving her quite a lot of trouble because kitchen knives were not made to carve into wood. Also, sap's starting to come out and gunk up the knife blade, and the whole thing's just one big mess.{else}It doesn't look like Miranda actually has any armour at all, and for a weapon she's just got a knife. Not even a good one, with a comfy handle and a crossguard and serrations along the back. It could have easily come out of a kitchen. She's using it to carve something into a tree trunk right now, but she's having a hard time with it.{endif}

"Hey Miranda!" You wave as you step cautiously over to her. "Whatcha doing?"

".....Mmm." She kicks the base of the tree and wipes some of the tree sap form the knife off on her pants. "......arborglyph."

An interesting assortment of letters that she just mumbled, for sure. You step a bit closer to get a better look at what she's trying to carve. It looks like it's letters? Some numbers, too. It's hard, but you squint, and that helps you a bit in the short term even though it may cause eye strain in the long term. It looks like it says "C 4 H 8 C l 2", so either you're wrong or it's a password.

You point. "Password?"

Miranda shakes her head, and leans against the tree to carve an "S" onto the end.

"That should work....." She says, taking a step back to look over what she wrote and tapping the side of her knife against her chin. Sap gets on her chin. She wipes the sap off of her chin, then turns over to you and "eep"s a little bit. So you've already got something in common! "Oh, uhh... h-hi, Debbie. I-it's really nice to.... sorry, did, um, did you have a question?"

"Yeah!" You smile, and point at the carving again. "What's?"

"O-oh, it's just something that I.... was thinking about, it's...." She pauses and seems to be trying to gauge how interested you actually are. You do your best to look super into it. "....It should just help. With monsters. W-with fighting monsters, I don't want to help the monsters. Should've asked for a better knife. Not good."

You nod along at everything she says, waiting for her to finish before saying anything. "Password?"

She shakes her head again.

"Drat." You stand back up to full height, because you'd been leaning forward as part of looking super into it. Not that your full height really amounts to much, but it's something at least. "Good luck!"

"Y-yeah, thanks... um, you too." Miranda looks down and shuffles her feet. You smile, but this is starting to feel a bit like you're interrupting her, so it's probably time for you to do something else now.