<div class="floatright">(http://i.imgur.com/B1m6Nuw.jpg)</div>The transition to the Jungle has, actually, managed to shut up Briar... to some degree. She isn't talking a mile a minute about this or that as they ride down the road, or pointing out useful plants and animals as they walk through the forest. No, her voice is softer, gaze sharp, as she studies everything around them. She can feel the change as they pass the transition point; a light charge to the plants around them, a sensation of life to the soil, stronger than normal, a not-scent to the air... It sets her on edge, bow at hand, quiver adjusted to be ready at a moment's notice, cloak caught behind it so as not to snare the draw. Her words are, instead, focused on oddities. An occasional<em>"That's blooming out of season."</em>as she points to one plant or bush,<em>"That beetle should still be in the ground for another two moons, not flourishing and mating now."</em>, or even a flick of her pointed ears, hints at her mixed heritage, at birdsong;<em>"They should be preparing for migration, with their long flight ahead, not sounding mating calls."</em><br/><br/>It is, to her, as beautiful as it thoroughly unsettling. Gale, by how he seems agitated and needs his master's hand to settle him, is also put off by the unnatural zest for life the forest has taken on, the transformation it's gone through. Though, judging by how that hand picks at her armoured clothing now and then, she's also regretting her choice of attire in the humid environment, as her intent gaze studies every motion in the trees around them, from a darting squirrel to blooming frond. Still, she leads the group forward despite the overgrowth, easily leading along the torn path...<br/><br/>And then comes that crashing sound, and the pained scream, and she's off like a shot from her bow. Gale, faster than his mistress, flits briefly ahead to act as a warning cry for ambush. One hand draws an arrow from her quiver, setting it to string. "I hope that isn't one of your bees, Olivia! Because she sounds quite troubled."