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He had found the cheetah. That was good. He had just crashed head-on into a thornbush. That was bad. That was very bad. Especially since he was already in a foul temper and the thorns were getting caught in his fluffy hair and tangling it up as well as scratching at his arms and face. He yowled, completely forgetting about Sahra for the moment and thrashed against the thorny bush, struggling to free himself, but only suceeding in worsening the problem. This was not his day. This was so not his day and he was going to maul the next thing he found and maybe then the world would pay him a little more heed and this would never happen again.

Scowling, Caden stilled too and slowly began extracting himself from the thornbush. He loathed to have to take the cheetah's advice, but having his beautiful fluffy mane all tangled up like that hurt his pride even more. Being smaller and considerably less gangly than Sahra made it easier to pull free of the briars. The lion spared a moment to look forlornly at the tufts of gold and red fur he had left behind. That was it, he was so totally and completely done for today. Nobody, not even Mom, was going to get another twitch of work-ethic out of him until at least tomorrow. This sucked! He was going to get out of here, spend a few hours painstakingly grooming himself, and take a nice long nap.

With a an angry growl, Caden began pushing his way out of the patch of scrub and back towards the tall grass. He hadn't gone six steps when he promptly tripped over Ephrem and fell flat on his face. Today was really not fun and Cadn generally responded by having a bad temper. He spun around and lashed out vicously at whatever he had tripped over, fully intending to take out his wrath on some stupid tree stump or something, then go storming back to Mr. Solon to announce his abject refusal to participate any further.

((Anything goes as long as you don't mangle him. He deserves it.))

Caden struggled, claws out and limbs flailing. He tried unsucessfuly to turn around and claw the lindworm, but that was rather impoosible. "Lemme go you stupid lizard!" he growled as threateningly as he could, which wasn't very much when he was being suspended in the air. After a moment or two, he gave up. It wasn't worth expending the energy. "Yeah, go ahead and laugh." he spat at Sahra, glaring venomously. Today was so not his day.

Orpheus was leaned against the tree watching the two kids and the dragon, ready to step in if he were needed but for the moment... it would seem as if Ephrem had things under control and both got free of that thorn bush... mental note remove that bush so nobody else got stuck in it. That was going to be a crappy task though to do himself, he wondered if he could get Baroness and Vorel to take care of that task for him? He didn't want to get stuck in the bush himself.

"How are we doing!" He called to his students, as if he wasn't watching the whole time through his night vision goggles. He just wanted to make sure there was no real damage from those thorns of the class would have to be postponed so he could bring the two to the Medical Area to get patched up.

"Okay Re, you can put him down now." Shaking her entire body, ears lolling, Sahra picked at more thorns, this time at her elbows, yanking out as many as she could manage. She would have expected, actually, to have more tangled into her fur, but most of them were stuck in her shoulders and face. How lucky for her.

Ephrem dropped the lion, loosing elevation before he did, and let him plop down onto a thick tuft of grass. "What ever." He spat, not caring to explain himself; of course he didn't do it on purpose, but like the kid would believe him anyways? So why even bother. The dragon twisted around aggressively, bringing one clawed arm up to his own head; he scratched furiously at his skull.

"Alright," Sahra started, giggling at Ephrem's actions, "I'm glad you're willing to play now~ Yes it is your turn, I'll go over there and um, count, I guess." With that said, the feline speed over to a large rock, and sat down on the other side. She snapped her eyelids shut and began counting in her head. No way was she doing that aloud.

The lindworm sunk back to the ground, relaxed again, and in no hurry to move from his current position. He would watch them from here, for now, and go to his partner only if she needed him.

"100." Sahra opened her eyes, stumbling to her feet, she shook her head, ears twitching annoyed like. It was almost as if something was buzzing around her ears, truly a pest. "Okay, so I need to go find him now." She whispered softly to herself, careful not to speak to loud. But where to start?

She decided that she would go straight, in the opposite direction she thought she had heard Caden go in. In a crouching position, she slowly made her way through trees and undergrowth, keeping her line rather forward. Until one side open, she turned to her left, emerging into an open area with nothing but dirt and stone, she quickly made her way to the middle, and then turned into the direction she believed her 'prey' to have gone, and began to pad forward.

She entered a grassy field, not sure if he would be here or not, she slowed her pace by half, if not more. The cheetah began to scan her surroundings very carefully, looking for any shape type disturbance in the grasses.

Nothing yet, but she wasn't about to give up. Sahra had been scanning for a few minutes now, attempting to use the tactics her mother had shown a while back out in the woods when she was going after some beast. She had told her to use her sight to pick out irregular things in the surroundings, to try and find any simple little detail that didn't belong. It sounded easier than it really was!

Another thing that might help her, she remembered, was her sense of smell. Although not as formed as it could be, it was better than a human's, and with her large nasal cavity she was able to use it at least a little bit to her advantage. Sahra had to admit that she was not used to hunting, though, so this was all pretty new to her. That probably was a very good thing.

Careful not to make a detectable sound, Sahra inched forward, low to the ground, tail erect, he ears where all over the place, listening this way and that. Then she saw something. Odd. It looked like a darkened area low to the ground. She made her way towards it, to chicken to sprint, she was afraid it might be something else. When she approached it, she jumped slightly, flinching. It was only a rock; how talented of her.

Orpheus took some notes as the kids went about their 'game' watching them through the night vision. He had to admit that he quite liked the fact that D-corp could provide such things for his classes. Having access to them though did tempt him to go off and seem if he still had the edge enough to steal some stuff. He gave a bit of a grin then wrote down a few more things under each of the students name. It may have started off a bit roughly but it was going much better now.