Try to return home before it get's dark and risk being seen

Galarth was afraid of staying on the forest in his current defenseless form, if a wild predator would attack him as he's now it would be his end, on contrast if someone watched him back on town he had a better chance to not be caught or at least not be murdered on sight while on civilazation so he resolved to return to town, trying to get back to his home by the same alleyways he sneak through before.