Ah. So she wants to play hide and seek? I'm game. The branch he was perched on was a good distance from the ground, but that didn't bother him any. He bent his knees and arched his paws for a safe descent, and leapt. Barely a second after he thudded onto the forest floor, Lokiri began to jog silently so that Astrum would not be alerted of his position.
But if she's as powerful as I believe she is, she'll have no trouble locating me. And as for Lokiri, well... his powers weren't as strong as usual in a place that was unfamiliar to him, a place he'd never been before. Like Roraldi. He knew his nose wouldn't do him any good, so he concentrated once again on telepathy. There was this new technique he'd heard about, a sort of "echolocation" for psychics. Of course he'd read about it in the newspaper, typical Lokiri. And seeing as it was recently developed, it wasn't that accurate. He'd tried it on Picasso once before, and it worked.
Of course, finding Picasso doesn't require echolocation. You don't even need a good pair of ears to hear that idiot's thundering paws. He began to focus all his energy on the surrounding environment, and projected it into nature. He could feel the power rushing through his veins. Suddenly, the image of a tall tree popped into his mind. Lokiri sighed and rolled his eyes.
That's real helpful. There are only hundreds of thousands of trees in Roraldi!
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