[The movement and ice make him glance back - he can't help it, any more than Cao Pi could help but attack the thing. But with nothing more than illusions and ice, he focuses again on where he lost the creature in the trees.]
I saw something go up this way. Can you see anything from back there?
[He's not expecting a yes, as much as he'd like to hear it, so he reluctantly holsters his pistol and reaches for then trunk, ready to start shaking the whole tree. Maybe he can at least force the thing to move, maybe Cao Pi will see it then.]
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I saw something go up this way. Can you see anything from back there?
[He's not expecting a yes, as much as he'd like to hear it, so he reluctantly holsters his pistol and reaches for then trunk, ready to start shaking the whole tree. Maybe he can at least force the thing to move, maybe Cao Pi will see it then.]