"Very wrong" described the deer aptly enough, along with every other piece of wildlife around. All of them had too many legs and came in all the wrong colors, the birds flew crooked, and there were deer that didn't even turn their heads when she approached. And, okay, there probably were more important things to be focusing on here than the local fauna as long as they remained unobtrusive, but Jade was just too science-minded to let this go! She would just observe them for a little while (and then finally get past her reluctance to find an ideal way to hunt them, because there were only so many berries and so far you could get with them); that couldn't hurt.

Wandering and smelling (actually using the dog-scent was still a little strange to her) had eventually gotten her to a pair of deer obliviously taking a snack break. "Hey," she whispered, and when they didn't do anything in acknowledgement, spoke a little louder. "Hey!" But these ones didn't seem to hear her at all and kept taking tiny hobbling steps towards new patches of greenery as if she wasn't even there. "Hellooooo," she called again anyway, just to be sure, and carefully walked closer towards them.