Mmmno. He's probably decided to clear away from the temple for fear of it, y'know, exploding or something.

There is an obvious path that he might have taken if he wished to be found, though. (It's back along the path of stones.)

Let's run that way.

That way: is a lot of stone path, since it stretches back way further than just up to the point where Tyler (poor, poor Tyler) dropped them.

He had it coming.

Remembering the satisfaction of that kill lets her run a little faster.

Well then, she will eventually come across Blue standing quite a ways away from the temple thingy, in a small clearing, seeming prepared to run if there's any sign of impending doom.

He seems to be alone, still, except for his keriol, and he notices her approach and seems ready to bolt at any moment.

(Her eyesight definitely does seem to be better, though that annoying pain is getting in the way of her ability to study her surroundings properly. It's slightly inconvenient like that, isn't it?)

It is. (She is going to break this place.)

She slows to a stop at the edge of the clearing and holds her hands up in a peaceable gesture.

He looks at her slightly warily and asks, "Do you want to tell me what all of that was about?"

"The bunny was venomous. It hurt rather a lot. That was my way of dealing with the pain."

"… Ah," he says. "I think the bunny was also made of fog, so that doesn't make a huge amount of sense, but nothing says this place has to do that, I guess."

"Quite. Shall we continue traveling?"

"Yeah," he says. "Since Thario and Tyler both disappeared."

Except she originally said she 'lost track of' them, which was a bit of a weird phrasing, wasn't it.

Not that weird. Maybe his memory was distorted by all that frantic running he just did.

Off they go.

Except for the fact that he's good at remembering how people phrase things. It might get to be important.

They go anyway. He doesn't give her any indication of having noticed anything up, doesn't give any inclination of anything further than 'well it's weird that they both disappeared like that'.

Are they looking for anything in particular?

Not particularly. A place to rest, maybe.

Any small woodland wildlife Elleira sees will get summarily blasted.

What about things like deer?

Deer can live. For now.

Squirrels are presumably small enough to be killed, as are rabbits (except there don't seem to be any), as would be a keriol if she weren't making a specific exemption for the one wrapped around Blue's neck…

How about a cow? There is in fact a cow.

Elleira has in fact never seen a cow before. She looks at it somewhat confusedly.

Blue has likewise never seen a cow. But then, he had never seen a deer or a bunny or a squirrel – they look similar to some things that he's seen before, but no, they're not quite the same.

"You okay there?" he asks, noting her confusion.

"Fine, just... Never seen anything like that before."

"Oh," he says. "I haven't seen most of these things."

"That one was weirder than most."

He nods. "Looks like something that the Thamari herd for food, but– smaller."

"Hm. I wonder if this animal is domesticated too."

Shrug. "I'm not really sure how to check? See if it startles when you walk up to it, or…?"