Sulu was tensing up just as much as Ianto was, the other's anxiety making it hard for him not to want to be prepared for the worst. After all, this was a lot like the space bears incident...

When the strange little deer-like creature came out of the brush, he relaxed almost immediately, grinning over to Ianto as the other man apologized. "Don't worry about it," he said, "It's not like I'm going to hold it against you. Being afraid of the little antelope thing, and all." He couldn't help but tease a little - after all, the thing looked like something you'd want to take home as a pet than something to be afraid of.

That was, it looked adorable and cute until just about the time when the sound of thunder broke through the treeline, the antelope looking up just in time to get snatched up in the jaws of something roughly the size of an elephant, and almost seal-like in shape. Except for the teeth. Those were more like a shark's. His hand was reaching for Ianto's before he'd really had time to process the fact that there was something much bigger than an antelope chewing on a cute woodland creature and looking around at them.