Basker. [It's the term he hears people use over shift hunter, anyways. Think Hounds of Baskerville.] They're less troublesome tame like this. He's smelling out the Shifts the Shifter is us--

[Behind them, the droids come out of the smoke cloud. Shikamaru curses, hearing them coming, and picks up the pace.]

Damn. Was hoping for more than a five second lead with that.