if you try'na monster smash

He hadn't been expecting to hear the leaf litter shifting beneath the paws of another animal, not this deep into the maze. It took him a fair bit of struggling to get turned around amidst the narrow pathways that he'd been meandering through. The spectral fireflies that he chased to and fro continued to bob mutely all around, and the tusked behemoth stared into the face of a young fae. "Hello?" her wary greeting was not lost on the man, though he couldn't quite place what exactly had her on edge. The ambiance? His presence? Hard to say for certain. "Hello to you as well," he rumbled, expression pointedly neutral. "are you lost?" he asked, brilliant ruby gems narrowed as he scrutinized the smaller she-wolf. As one of the blue fireflies cast its dim glow against the side of his snout, he snapped his teeth at it without thinking. It fizzled out and was gone, but another appeared between his ears just as quickly.

"If you follow the gouges in the bamboo stalks to your left, you can find your way back out." he said simply, and then busied himself with turning back around and continuing his path of wantonly harassing ghostly bugs. A hefty paw swiping at the ground, glinting ivories closing around air, and he found himself thoroughly entertained once again. It was a bit of a workout too, trying to catch them all as he moved through the labyrinthine paths of the bamboo.