( wink The Dice God's are with you.)
The beast sniffs around for a few moments more, it's breath thick on the tree's and branches, before, at last, as though coming to a conclusion, the massive beast stomps off further into the forest, heading away from the grotto, and leaving you in silence... the more mundane sounds of the thick forest return as the birds begin to sing again, and the tension that was in the air at the creature's presence dissipates...
On the other side of the tree's where the beast was stomping around, there are huge foot prints, as if those of some enormous bear...
It hadn't been a fully grown Giant bear, such as those that sometimes populated the thick of the wilds of the land of rice, but it was certainly well on it's way...it would have been a dangerous fight indeed had it managed to find the twins... but now all that remains is the tranquil quite of the forest, peace having well returned...
< Back towards the river
