The soldiers watched nervously as this being left his bubble and walked into the forest off to their right, apparently not noticing them. The door in the side of the bubble remained tantalizingly open. Hawker suggested they go in and investigate, but Belilo shook her head.
“Too risky. We have no idea what we’d be getting into. Those bubbles are some sort of craft, but we still don’t know what makes them go or how to work them. I think we might better try to capture our horny friend and see what information we can get out of him.”
The men agreed, and the trio fanned out through the forest, moving in the direction where they’d last seen their quarry. The man from the bubble made no attempt to conceal himself as he walked deeper into the woods at a leisurely pace, checking the trees as thou
