At first it's easy to miss because there's other people that go out hunting, or foraging, or whatever, meaning there's lots of footprints and trails that lead into the woods and it all gets kind of muddled after awhile. Clint doesn't go out hunting every day, but he does go most days, usually going in different directions so as to not scare the game away from one place. But one day he notices faint, very faint, traces in the brush that don't seem to lead back to the village, and so he starts keeping his eye out, wary after the badger attack and concerned that something else is going on. Something else is always going on here, but if they have some idea of what's coming, they can prepare for it.

Fortunately, it turns out to not be anything ridiculous like the rampaging badger. Clint doesn't immediately know that the girl stumbling in the direction of the village is the one who'd left the few traces he'd spotted, but she was a possible reason for it. More importantly, she's young, new, and apparently in pain, and for the moment all of that supersedes anything else going on as he changes direction to walk towards her, taking in her appearance and mentally cataloguing everything he's noticing. "You got stung by something, huh?"