If it's brown, flush it down

The boy watched as the bear tumbled over and down and out of sight. There were a lot of big rocks on the way down and the beastie would either be dead or have a pounding headache when it finally awoke. His attention was drawn back to Jael when she spoke and he flattened his ears and dropped his head, looking back at her with a tight-lipped apologetic grin. "We-ah, explored the challenges posed in different terrain... or sumthin', yeah?" His tail waved cheekily at his back and his head tilted to try and add to the charm. "I won' tell if you don't. But I reckon its a shame it fell so far, the teeth an' claws would look great on some jewelry..." He was trying, subtly, to suggest that maybe they shouldn't race home just yet.