What's Up With the Pacing?

The creatures didn't run off. They knew we were there even before i started taking notice of the swaying bush, and we were out there talking. The posture was so powerfully communicating that there they are, not retreating from that spot, and we are not welcome. That's how, that's the best way to articulate it. I just felt, you know, that the, as i said, we weren't welcome, and they were knocking a retreat. But when i yelled, it stopped. And then i yelled and it didn't stop. It wasn't until we started approaching that it just started disappeared between the bushes. So whether ye was standing guard or just biding time while