"Understood. I'll have weapon at ready regardless." Admittedly, maybe stalking directly through the wetland growth was not the greatest of plans, but it was better than hoping he could find it by scanning from the top of the dang place.

"-- Ooh, horseradish." This, he DOES slash a stem of, and he does pocket, before he keeps moving.

Just around the bend in the river, but on the other side, in the quieter, slower lea of the shore. "... Of course."