Red's Short Story: Angaros

Angaros cursed himself for letting Red live so long. The boles of the trees were too close together and their branches hung too low for him to make any good speed. Red was outdistancing him, but at least the ape man was in hot pursuit, Neph had passed Angaros soon after they'd entered the forest. Angaros had already figured out that Neph, while smart, was not what one would consider an intelligent. The Cohorts had tamed and trained several different species of animals or whatever for their own purposes. Neph was smarter than any of them, but he was still an animal, perhaps that was a good thing in this case. Animal's senses tended to be keener than those of the intelligents, he hoped that would enable Neph to stay on Red's trail. Angaros knew

It wouldn't come off, so he whipped out his knife and cut it loose. It was oddly shaped, the stem was on the underside of the leaf and the leaf spread out evenly in all directions from the stem. It was latticed like a snowflake, with a little darker shade of gold membrane beneath. He rolled the leaf between his fingers, it had an oddly familiar feel to it, it felt more like cloth than a leaf. No time for such trifles, he chided himself as he dropped the leaf and continued the hunt. The ground began to rise and the golden trees became more and more common until they were the norm rather than the

“Alright, have it your way, bring him down the hard way.”
Three more figures moved forward and raised their arms, Angaros thought they held spears. He had to act, before it was too late. Angaros stepped forward. Raised his hands into the air.
“WAIT! Don't do it, he can't talk.”
The figures all turned toward him and Angaros saw four sets of glowing cat-like eyes, three of the silhouettes raised their spears and a voice emanated from the direction of one of the sets of glowing eyes, “Lay down your weapon intruder.”
Angaros said, “Sorry, but I'll be keeping my sword close at hand. I will however keep it sheathed as long as you keep your spears to yourselves.”
A low threatening rumble rose from the creature's throat and Tommi placed herself between Angaros and the glowing eyes.
“Come on Purft, don't be such a hard ass, let's hear what he has to say.” Tommi turned toward him and said, “Who are you and what are you doing here?”
“I'm Angaros, my friend in the tree and I are in pursuit of a dangerous intelligent, he's recently passed this way or he may be hiding somewhere around