"Boys, do me a favor and spread out around this tree. If it's up there and it comes out, I don't want it to get away." Grant moved around the tree to his left. It was an older tree with a decently wide trunk - wide enough to warrant having the three of them circle around it.

Unfortunately for Professor Baer, in his own excitement to hopefully capture one of these things, he neglected to look at his footing as he was just getting to the other side of the tree. A dry twig snapped under his foot, seemingly loud in the quiet woods. He froze. Looking up into the tree he paused, waiting for something to happen. After a few tense moments of looking up, he relaxed slightly. "Looks like no one's home..."

But that wasn't exactly true. For there was a creature up there, another Deathmantle. It had woken up when the three of them had moved toward the tree, and had been moving into position as Baer had moved forward. Now that it had a face to focus on, it launched itself at what it could see. Jaws open, it silently flew right toward Keegan's face.