While Enchantress had decided she had wanted to return from the caves on foot, something Bloody War Paint was surprised but extremely pleased about, it had been impossible for them to keep up with the rest of the group, as the moment the doe discovered the Ache she immediately began to wander off, seeing how far she would go in the wrong direction, sometimes several wrong directions as once, before she couldn't resist anymore. Occasionally he would catch her taking two steps forward, one step back and so on. Regardless of his sighs, snorts and nudging she simply laughed and continued on his way, so the buck begrudgingly followed. While they had eventually made it home, apparently Enchantress had decided this was quite fun, and just recently had run off toward the edge of the swamp, leaving Bloody War Paint to run behind, dragging her out of trouble until they reached the edge of the trees. While he could see the plains in the distance occasionally it would be quite some distance before they could make it, and luckily the doe was quite please with simply hopping back and forth, tumbling over roots and slipping in the water as she tested and tried to find the exactly moment were the Ache struck. Shaking his head Bloody War Paint simply followed along, but when the Enchantress suddenly bolted off and he quickly turned to follow the buck found himself head of feet and into a hole, stuck upside down. Quickly rustling around to try and escape did little to help, as he had somehow slid right into a opening in some roots, and one of his legs was quite stuck between several of them, at least it was now that he's tried to turn himself over and pull himself out...
The doe, having smelled something quite new had happily headed after it when she heard a barrage of snapping and slams of hooves against wood, turned around and heading in the direction of the noise. Based on what she was hearing, it sounded like Bloody War Paint and stumbled into something again, and his sudden kicks and snorts, as well as what sounded like him slamming his horns against something told her as much. Laughter in her voice, Enchantress smiled, always so worried yet he could never keep an eye on his own feet. What would he do without her? "I'll be right back with help~" and before the buck could protest off she went! The doe began to run in a direction away from the hole (wouldn't do for her to get stuck, and luckily Bloody War Paint was making quite a bit of noise so she could easily tell where he was), sniffing as she went, hoping to catch the scent of another kin, shouting all the while, "Hello~? Anyone there~? We need help~?" and so on in her lilting voice as she stumbled over roots and ran full force into trees more than a few times, leaving her fur stuck with mud and branches as she went, surprisingly happily. After all, she couldn't leave him for too long, or something might happen to him. Well, something else, beyond getting stuck in some hole again. While hopefully he hadn't injured his foot again, it was quite obvious he wasn't getting out without outside help, and the doe wouldn't be much help in this situation, as they had once discovered the first time she'd tried. Better to hurry off and find someone, plus the tail of destruction she left in her wake apparently made it very easy to follow the trail back, or so she'd been told.
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