The party returned to a large amount of fanfare, it seems one of the villagers had been trying to find a monster to tame and saw the party moving through the woods with the spoils of their hunt. They had run ahead and informed the rest of the village who gathered near the northern entrance to welcome their new 'heroes' back from the dangerous hunt.
"Thank you so much adventurers, you really saved us! And you only did it in a day!" The village chief came out to greet them upon their return as well. Rena noticed him greedily eye the monster's pelt for a moment, but he did not say anything since he knew the guild's rules on spoils.
"Oh it was no problem! Honestly it went down a little too easy for a beast of its rank." Jen answered.
Rena was about to agree before she heard her best friend mutter under his breath, "For some of us anyway…"