[Horikawa may not be who Namazuo was looking for, but Horikawa is who Namazuo got. Hopefully if those chittering stickbugs come after the two, the dragon in front of them isn't too averse to the extra noise. In the meantime, Horikawa will be looking at it with a distant kind of curiosity, glancing back to Namazuo after a moment of inspection.]

Huh, why? Did you want to approach it? [HMM!] It doesn't look very angry. Even if it was, we aren't slow, and there's a lot of obstacles in the woods.

[If it does anything short of blowing over the forest itself, they can probably leave this okay, pretty much.]