He couldn't say he was surprised; there were a lot of things that were apparently different with the other worlds people were from. He half-shrugged, making a lazy hand gesture at the light fog in the woods and a snatch of laughter off in the trees; there was obviously something out there that wasn't playing by normal rules.

"If it's something out hunting, then I'd rather not keep moving and get harried out to exhaustion; if it's a prank, then maybe we'll be less entertaining if we're waiting it out."