She thought he might say something else after that, but he didn't, so she kept on scrounging around for more wood and tying what she found together. She had to wander further and further out to find what she needed, since what she was looking for were lengths at least as tall as she was. There was no point making a door she couldn't pass through, after all. She also hadn't experimented with using her power with doors whose dimensions didn't more or less match up, and now wasn't the best time to start. With no axe, that meant she had to be pretty picky about what she picked up off the forest floor.
She hadn't realized Faber was gone until she was hauling her third bundle of wood up to the crude frame that she'd set up. "Faber!" she called; his name echoed across the range for a moment, then silence fell once more.