"Uh, after seeing the reminder from pals in the live chat, I'm having second thoughts. There are quite a few squirrels around here, but not many with substantial food stores—must be a rather old, experienced individual."
"If it gets knocked out of the fight for survival just because of our bad luck in taking its food reserves, that would indeed be a shame. So here's the plan, we'll leave everything else in the granary untouched, and only take the mushrooms back with us.
"Tonight, we'll make a mushroom soup and reprocess the bear paw we didn't finish at lunch using the fresh flavor of the mushrooms."
Having made up his mind, Lin Yang didn't wreak havoc; he just plucked the mushrooms from one side of the nest and stuffed them into his pocket before climbing down the tree.
