"Are you getting hungry at all?" I called.

Vuud paused in his vigorous forward motion. "Yes, I am. I was so intent on my hunt, that I forgot about food. Let's go back and have some of those delicious supplies we brought."

We looped around off our previous path to see if we had missed anything important as we made for the Skimmer. Vuud only stopped once and hovered over a kind of milkweed plant, but quickly moved on. We reached the river and turned right where we ...