Seth took a little while to get used to Sephronia, but it turns out having a noctural tree cat as companion is pretty damn useful when you're trying to navigate a forest at night. And while he wasn't actually in the previous dæmon dream, he did hear about it, so this isn't too strange. Kind of reassuring, actually. This forest is doing nothing to soothe his usually frayed nerves. And while he is actually aware it's a dream this time, that doesn't actually do much to calm him. It should, but it doesn't.
He's not being the most graceful, pretty useless in this kind of setting. He can see enough to not walk into any trees, and he can mostly make out Sephronia walking in front of him, at least as long as he doesn't look away for too long and she changes direction. So when she stops suddenly, he manages to do the same, looking around and listening, though he doesn't hear anything.
"What?" he asks quietly, while Sephronia is on alert, listening. As much as it's nice to have someone with better senses, it makes him extra nervous that he can't tell when there's obviously something.
"Something's approaching," she answers, and after that they both fall quiet, listening. After a few moments, Seth can hear it too. Multiple animals, it sounds like, moving quickly somewhere close by. Seth instinctively takes a step back, causing a twig to snap under his foot, and the sound of animals suddenly disappears entirely. Crap.
He doesn't want to ask Sephronia what it is, for fear that it will attract whatever it is, but as the seconds drag on, he feels like he needs to do something. It's a dream, he reminds himself, so even if whatever it is can tear him apart, he'll wake up just fine afterwards. Not like he doesn't have equally horrifying nightmares all the time. And, again, it's a dream, and he's got an animal companion, so maybe it's someone else's that they're hearing, and not just some wild beast.
"Uh... Hello?" he says, though particularly loudly. Surely they've been noticed anyway - he doesn't want to attract whatever else might be lurking in the forest.
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He's not being the most graceful, pretty useless in this kind of setting. He can see enough to not walk into any trees, and he can mostly make out Sephronia walking in front of him, at least as long as he doesn't look away for too long and she changes direction. So when she stops suddenly, he manages to do the same, looking around and listening, though he doesn't hear anything.
"What?" he asks quietly, while Sephronia is on alert, listening. As much as it's nice to have someone with better senses, it makes him extra nervous that he can't tell when there's obviously something.
"Something's approaching," she answers, and after that they both fall quiet, listening. After a few moments, Seth can hear it too. Multiple animals, it sounds like, moving quickly somewhere close by. Seth instinctively takes a step back, causing a twig to snap under his foot, and the sound of animals suddenly disappears entirely. Crap.
He doesn't want to ask Sephronia what it is, for fear that it will attract whatever it is, but as the seconds drag on, he feels like he needs to do something. It's a dream, he reminds himself, so even if whatever it is can tear him apart, he'll wake up just fine afterwards. Not like he doesn't have equally horrifying nightmares all the time. And, again, it's a dream, and he's got an animal companion, so maybe it's someone else's that they're hearing, and not just some wild beast.
"Uh... Hello?" he says, though particularly loudly. Surely they've been noticed anyway - he doesn't want to attract whatever else might be lurking in the forest.