[quote=@Count Numbers]
Chalk it up to Tristan getting lost in his own head. Honestly, it's a very in-character mistake. 
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Oh yeah, I can easily see that. Given the misread, does it help to clarify that part of Tristan's vision is that the Badger doesn't want to be here, it wants there to be trees, but there's some reason it's not just going back to the trees that are, like, right over there just a short hike away. 

Anyway, you have as many posts as you want to chat and plan in the "talking is a free action sense" but the intent of the timing is that there's time to be like "you hide here and ambush it after I shoot it from here" but not time to go looking for anything or craft anything that takes more than a moment, though letting it go here is perfectly reasonable. You two probably could take it, mechanically, but it might hurt in the process.