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Two pairs of eyes had watched the initial step of the dark buck into the quicksand and though a voice in the back of her mind had told her that it would be best if she helped him out right away ... Well, there was a greater urge to see how he would react to getting trapped. It wasn't the nicest of thoughts and she knew that there were certain standards that required she feel bad for wanting to watch him slowly disappear into his death but that didn't change that she'd stayed hidden among the brush and wrapped sinuously around a tree root.

The pale doe was surprised in all honesty with how well he was handling his lot in life. With a calm, unmoving, demeanor and a curious look in the eyes. He deserved her respect, a nod of the head, for how quietly he was choosing to go. He was going not with a bang or even a whimper- But with a cool determination.

Let Me Fall liked that. She liked that a lot.

So she slunk around and off of her raised perch, much like a snake removing itself from a tree branch, and expertly traversed her way to him in the quietest manner she could. Until she was directly upon him did she want him to know she was there. Peeking her face out of the bush full of leaves he was admiring, she watched him sink a little bit more before turning about and offering him her tail. As far as she was concerned there was no need for words.

Her constant and bizarre use of her muscles meant that she was definitely stronger than she looked, but the fact that as he'd seen her face he'd only offered a smile while slowly dying endeared him to her more. So she put all that she could into the effort to pull him out. She used everything around her that she could to give them both some kind of leverage; a tree branch here, a rock there ... She used anything solid that could help her continue to move forward and she knew she was being rewarded by how much lighter he seemed to feel the more she pulled. That meant it was working right?

It wasn't that she was entirely concerned with his safety but at this point it was a matter of pride in her abilities and strength. The doe had set her mind to freeing this buck, and free him she would. Nothing short of the Swampmother herself telling her to let go was going to change that and hearing no such ethereal voice in her head she took it as a sign to keep pulling until she knew he was free.

Unfortunately, she couldn't turn around to check on him. She was going at the rescue blind.

The encouraging popping of legs from entrapment only spurred the pink doe to move faster and more urgently. This was the first time she'd attempted anything like this, saving another from certain death, and she found that she oddly liked the sensation it gave her. The lightness in her chest with a deed well done. As the buck came tumbling out of the muck Let Me Fall was actually feeling nice enough that it didn't even bother her that for that split second she also went careening forward in a complete display of lack of grace.

Laughing quietly with a huffing out of her nose, she turned silently around with a dexterity meant to erase the stumble of just seconds before and nosed the newly safe.

"However did you end up in that guicksand?" Her tongue and teeth held the 'S' out for just long enough to denote that it had been awhile since last she'd spoken to anyone. Or maybe it was just her accent.

If he'd had a tale of daring-do to explain how she'd found him in his predicament then different, more exciting, things would have been clicking into place behind her heavy-lidded eyes.

As things really were? Not so much. How did anykin growing in the swamp survive without learning fast to be mindful of their step and surroundings? Only a simple or very pampered fool...

A shake of her head and a turn was her answer. In two blinks of an eye she had retreated back into the brush from which she'd come with no reply to give him. Then her nose and eyes peeked back out and she looked at him dourly. As though she had no idea why she was even turning back to indulge him an answer.

"Appreciate my help by watching where you are going."

Then she was gone.