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Jerry the Penguin could in fact see Robert. And hear him. Which was enough incentive to runwaddle like hell. With a terrified quack and a flap of his flippers, he made a B-line for the safety of one of the tents.

Robert stared at the retreating penguin, his eyes wide as he watched it walk away. He waved his arm and made wordless sounds of confusion, until finally he managed something.

"Wha. WHAT. I COULDN'T HAVE SCARED IT OFF!" Robert's arms waved wildly in the air. "IT CAN'T SEE ME!" He cracked his knuckles, and glared at it. "Well scared or not, say the word Maddie. And I will catch that little son of a b***h and put a collar on it, just for you."

Now it was a matter of pride.

The penguin huddled behind a tent flap, watching, waiting. It could see you, Robert and it was not convinced for his safety.

Carefully, quietly, it waddled its way from snow drift to snow drift. He was alright with Maddie thinking he was some escaped pet but... He did not trust Robert with small animals.

Not in the least.

Especially when he was said small animal.

"OH MY GOD IT CAME BACK I knew I didn't care it off!" Robert had almost immediately noticed the waddling creature, which was a stark contrast to before, when he had hardly noticed it at all. Robert liked to live in extremes, and currently his extreme was CATCH MADISON A PENGUIN mode. So he bent down into the snow, completely ignoring Jordan because he was certain his boss couldn't see him, and started to shimmy across the snow on his stomach, right past Jordan's feet.

"It's penguin season."

"Jordan!" Madison said, with a grin and a wave - a grin that kind of froze on her face as Robert dropped to the ground and started, uh. Shimmying.

"... I don't... I'm not... don't ask me, I don't know," she said, finally, looking from Jordan to Robert to the penguin and back again.

Oh god oh god oh god he was spotted! Jerry gave a terrified quack, flippers flailing as he tried to waddle as far out of reach as possible- but there were too many hunters milling about. Too many feet with which to step on him. Frantically, he double backed, crossing through the snow to try at hiding by Maddie's feet with a desperate, "Waaaark."

THE PENGUIN

WAS

BACK.

Madison slow~wly crouched down and put her hands around the scared bird, then gathered it in when no biting or pooping seemed to be forthcoming. "Aw, it's so... so cute! See, Robert, you don't have to, like... be all secret agent man about it or whatever. Awww... you're really tame, aren't you?" She gathered the penguin in and held it gently to her chest, running one hand over its head. Pet the penguin. Pet, pet, pet.

So. Cute.

Ennéa crept to the entrance of the tent and peeked out. Despite her best efforts to not sleep ever again she had conked out at some point and when she awoke both Maddie and Jordan were gone.

A small queasy ball of fear had twisted in her stomach upon discovering her friends weren't in the tent but she quickly squashed the feeling. Who knew how long she had been out? They probably were outside.

Ennéa firmly wrapped her blanket around herself and ventured outside. She probably looked like a weird human sausage made of blanket but she didn't care; she was warm. Her breath puffed in white clouds before her face.

She rounded a side of the tent and breathed in relief. There was Maddie and Jordan and... Robert flopping about in the snow? Ennéa smiled at his antics and then waddled up to join her friends.

"Hi Jordan, Ma---" Ennéa noticed what the other girl was holding and the rest of her greeting turned into a high-pitched squeal of delight young girls usually saved for puppies and kittens. Apparently penguins counted too. "Oh a penguin!!! It's so cuuuuuuuuuute!" She stared at it with starry eyes. She had to pet it.