<div class="floatleft">(http://imgur.com/3hgsLSS.jpg)</div>The young physician had contained himself until they were well and truly inside, reminding himself that the others held experience superior to his own, but seeing the man disappear stirred him into action. When Ghislain returned, Malcyn waited impatiently until he'd dressed and taken up his coffee mug, but once he seemed settled in, the junior of the group opened his mouth. "We need help tracking a beast," he blurted out. "It attacked a boy last night." Considering the stable boy wasn't that much younger than himself, that statement might be perceived as odd, arrogant even, but Malcyn had a habit of ignoring his age whenever his profession was involved. "It left its prey and ran into the woods before we could get a good look at it, but we found tracks. It's pretty big."<br/>