Chapter 2: Service to the Following

Imek keeps talking, hardly stopping to breathe all the way to the edge of the Tapir's grove. Once there she bids you goodbye and returns to camp. You can easily see several tracks, but it would take some expertise to find out which direction they're heading in.

Atticus is able to identify the newest tracks, and can also inform the rest that there are two tapirs, and that they seem young and healthy. The tracks lead deeper into the forest, and eventually lead into a clearing.

From inside the clearing you can hear the high pitched whiper of a couple of tapirs long before approach. They seem agitated, and as you turn a bend and get a clear look, you see two tapir that are trapped in a couple of poison barb snares. Unless you take caution to mask your presence they will growl at your presence.

You sense no one else around. Whoever set the snares seems to be gone.