[Training] don't touch that

It hadn't yet occurred to Tal that the water would make the glitter stickier. That was a revelation that would thankfully wait until later, when he was safely out of strangling range of the sassy young Abandoned girl and her magic tricks, although at least it would fade away before he could get properly pissed off about it.

He heaved a frustrated sigh, starting to seriously ponder whether or not to leave her to her fertilizer fate, but before he could make a decision she pulled one last trick out of her sleeve. Fur rippled over her skin and the courier finally realized that it wasn't just an illusion. The kid was a whole-ass hybrid! And she was... getting... bigger...

Not sea panther bigger, but a tide jaguar was still no joke!

"Shit!" Tal stumbled back as Boreal summoned a subdued chortle at his discomfort, but his heel caught on a loose patella rock and he fell back on his ass. He only barely managed to roll out of the way as her big paws landed in the sand where his shoulders had been, inelegantly scrambling in a backwards crab-walk as naked fear flashed over his face. "Stay back!" Although, weirdly, he started hastily undoing the buttons on his Vest as he tried to put more space between them.