In the end the companions won the race down the Leap and into the Undergrove, well ahead of the humans, while Tal came in a grumpy and disgruntled last place after running into the affectionate embrace of an entire nest of sentient vines that had been far too friendly and unwilling to let him go at first.
He panted down into the cool, almost clammy underground forest with a red-faced glower and rubbed the back of his neck fiercely as they headed towards the deeper parts of the eerily illuminated grove. "Right, so. Since you won this round, guess that means you get to be 'it'," he grumbled, not without a gleam of mischief in his pale eyes as he bumped against Sah's side as if on accident and then took off with a sudden turn of speed into one of the tunnels that didn't have any offerings in front of it at the moment, dodging away from any immediate retaliation the other man might try to pull as the hunt got underway in earnest.
He panted down into the cool, almost clammy underground forest with a red-faced glower and rubbed the back of his neck fiercely as they headed towards the deeper parts of the eerily illuminated grove. "Right, so. Since you won this round, guess that means you get to be 'it'," he grumbled, not without a gleam of mischief in his pale eyes as he bumped against Sah's side as if on accident and then took off with a sudden turn of speed into one of the tunnels that didn't have any offerings in front of it at the moment, dodging away from any immediate retaliation the other man might try to pull as the hunt got underway in earnest.
