The isle of the griffins chapter 11

The morning after tusoteuthis aided escape from the aquatic tuso-feeding lightning wyvern cult, Lolite was gathering berries on the second island of the archipelago.

He had just picked up a golden hesper egg when Goldenbeak flapped down into the canopy of a gnarled acacia tree.

"I've found something interesting" she said to him from in the tree, "what?" Lolite asked, "come see" the griffin replied, flapping off to the right.

Lolite followed her until they reached an area where the sandy soil was imprinted three toed birdlike footprints, followed by another set that looked like those of an oversized sabertooth, at the end of the trail of footprints there was a depression in the ground that looked like something had blown it outwards.

It was clear to see that the cat footprints had not been another animal following the bird footprints: they were never inside the sets of bird footprints, always about a full direwolf length behind.

"Griffin tracks" Goldenbeak said, "and they certainly aren't mine, I've only took flight once on this island and that was to come and tell you about these"