[youre practically young enough to be deans son. don't front. gives him a long look of that's a weak excuse and you know it before facing nick with a shrug, obviously reluctant but it's true that they're wasting time. he's not about to knock the little bastard out or hammerthrow him at the group, so aside from physically walking him over to the group and handcuffing him to someone else there's not much he can do to keep him from tagging along if he's going to keep insisting.]
...Fine.
[grumpy, leery, and tired all rolled into one word. he glances after the party that's long gone way down the road before dropping his bag back down, pulling rumpel's spellbook out of it and setting it on a tree stump open on the page for a tracking spell]
We got one shot.
[looks up at him in warning. they can only get the jump on him once, so if something fucks up they're all boned because of it... ie dont be the guy that screws it for everyone]
no subject
...Fine.
[grumpy, leery, and tired all rolled into one word. he glances after the party that's long gone way down the road before dropping his bag back down, pulling rumpel's spellbook out of it and setting it on a tree stump open on the page for a tracking spell]
We got one shot.
[looks up at him in warning. they can only get the jump on him once, so if something fucks up they're all boned because of it... ie dont be the guy that screws it for everyone]