It had seemed that for the time being, Matt Murdock had discovered everything that he could while still Matt Murdock. Which meant the next logical step was putting on his costume (or rather, taking off the suit he had been wearing over his costume) and exploring the woods as Daredevil. 

Even if just because a man in a bright red costume climbing a tree was slightly less suspicious than a blind lawyer. Slightly. 

It didn’t take long for Matt to realize the flaws in his plan. He wasn’t actually all that proficient in moving from tree to tree in comparison to rooftops. For one thing branches gave out a lot easier than brownstones and he wasn’t used to quite as much leafage. 

Despite this he slowly progressed deeper into the woods, opening his senses to the strange and alien noises and smells surrounding him, animals running across the forest floor and branches, bird cries he had never heard before, the rustling of leaves in the wind. The smell of something somewhere blooming and the things left on the forest floor rotting. It was... different from what he was used to, but not unpleasant.

Until he noticed something very familiar not too far away. For someone who had basically grown up in a boxing gym, the sounds and smells of it were pretty unmistakable, even if apparently somewhere in the middle of the woods. Curious, Matt slowly made his way into the direction, slowly decoding the information his senses gave him. One human, seemingly no other lifeforms (or at least none with a heartbeat)... training? 

Matt made no effort to hide his approach through the mid-tier branches of the trees. Unless the leaves on the trees were bright red there was no way anybody would manage to overlook him creeping towards anyone and so far nobody he met had been actually looking for a fight. 

The change in weather had been quite alarming to say the least. The sudden snowfall when previously the Mare Nectaris had been quite warm has driven Pearl to explore further outside the familiarity of the beaches and ocean waves. 

Which is how she ends up in the Sea of Tranquility, greeted immediately by the unbridled smells and noises of a forest. And a bear in a conductor’s uniform. Talking birds had been one thing, at least those talked sometimes, but BEARS?Too perturbed to react to the bear, she heads straight for the woods hoping for... something? Answers? 

            It wasn’t too hard to recognize the Director’s uniform, as oddly flashy as it was. Reassurance overwhelmed the seeress as she called out to him and, once he’d turned around, she had snatched his own hands up into her own. "Hope! It’s really you!” It took a few seconds for her, however, to look down at her hands intertwined in his own to realize how silly she must have been to jump him. In fact, hadn’t this same pose been initiated by him before, when she and Noel had first met him in the Yaschas Massif? The familiarity was uncanny.

          “Oh! Sorry about that,” she said, ducking her head down and releasing the other’s hands from her grip. “It’s just, well. I’m glad to see a familiar face." Much too nervous to face him headfirst, Serah quickly swiveled around, deciding to gaze up at the skyscrapers that towered over them. “This place, though. Doesn’t it remind you of Academia? Maybe it won’t be too hard for us to readju--?”