try to find my way back home

His greeting seemed to take the other hunter by surprise, and Gryphon felt a tingle of embarrassment wash over his skin. "I'm... n-no, no I'm not hunting," he stammered quickly, then realized in another flood of embarrassment that maybe as a hunter he really ought to be since it was his job, and he didn't have a family to look after, after all, so he should be doing the bulk of the hunting shouldn't he? Would Esa be disappointed in her apprentice if Steel told her that he was slacking? "I-I mean I could be. I mean yes. I'm just here... uhm... looking for... birds?" Oh what on earth was wrong with him? He cast around desperately for something clever to say to change the subject, but his intellect quailed under the force of extreme embarrassment, leaving him standing helplessly and awkwardly silent.