While the others have had their hands full with mama, Colin's taken the time to study his opponent. When he discovered that the attacking monster had a freshly hatched clutch of young, a plan took form in his head.

He wasn't going to attack the children, he didn't see any tactical benefit in that. The tactical benefit would be to use them to distract the mother. The children seemed to have focused on the meat that their mother had brought them, or they'd been freshly hatched. Imprinting the ones that had just hatched upon him would make it easier, but even the ones that wouldn't imprint on him could still be useful.

He returned to the children, his feet moving through the steps of the Forest Suite. The dance could influence the minds of animals to turn them to his side, and while he doubted that mama would be affected, the young would likely be easy. And if he could get mama's attention on someone getting too close to her children, it seemed likely to him that the others would no longer be the target of her ire.

It also meant that he'd become the subject of her aggression, but it wasn't the first time he'd tried to piss off something bigger than him.