Keeping up has been an exercise, but he's managed it, and it's easier to keep pace when the young sali slows down a bit. He sees her looking through the plants. "They're both a ways back," he says, guessing she's worrying the attacking sali is trailing them. "We should be safe." Unless the older sali somehow figures out a way to hide himself from Ryo's Sense, but for now, he can still Sense Jingyi and the other sali a ways behind them.