[Marinette quietly continued to explore things by herself. Sure, she probably should have looked for Adrien, but honestly it was still really hard for her to spend lots of time with him. The part of her that wanted to know him better warred with the duty she felt to try and help everyone get home as ladybug.
She was still having a hard time trying to balance out both when one was so very much more impatient. Even her talks with Tikki couldn't keep her patient enough to wait for the right time.
As she tried to figure things out and explore she ended up going towards the waterfalls.
She had come across many people as she wandered and explored, but not someone quite as interesting as Kanji.]