Near the end of his exercises, he senses a fairly large group, nearly a hundred liontaurs, both male and female, starting to move up the slops, towards the monastery. They seem to all be unarmed, or only carrying very light weapons, for personal defense, and it will probably take them a good six hours to get all the way up the hill, as some are quite old and moving slowly. No one else seems to be aware of them, though his request does cause them to scatter, again, apparently embarrassed at being noticed, like a bunch of giggling schoolgirls.