As Jacque and his captive continued to traverse the forest in their effort to reach the nearest city, the pair hit a slight snag in the road that set the bounty hunter on edge. It started with the horse thief cursing loudly and turning to his left to wretch, Jacque, believing the man's actions to be a plot to escape when his guard dropped, leveled the shotgun at his bounty and prepared to bark another order. The words died in his throat rather quickly as he caught the scent of blood, thick and heavy, wafting through the breeze and turned to see what the horse thief had reacted so violently to.

About two or three dozen yards ahead of them there were several bodies scattered along both the sides of the road and on the road itself. Jacque muttered a hail Mary under his breath before kicking his quarry in the back of his knees to force him onto the ground, "[b][color=004b80]Don't you move. If I come back to find you missing then I swear to God I will shoot you in your knees and drag you the rest of the way when I catch you again.[/color][/b]" he growled before raising his gun and advancing slowly upon the scene. He approached cautiously, spinning around slowly every now and then to make sure he wasn't about to be ambushed, even going so far as to aim at the trees to avoid an assault from above. Jacque never even got the opportunity to hope that the men had died from an animal attack as he reached them. The wounds on the bodies were much too clean, and nothing had eaten, which ruled out a predator of some sort. He leaned down to inspect the blood, then jumped back up to his feet in alarm as he realized that the blood hand't even begun to coagulate. Whomever had done this had done it very recently, which mean that they hadn't gotten far. 

Jacque turned and began to walk back to his quarry, but froze and grit his teeth audibly when he realized the man had disappeared. "[color=004b80][b]Oh you MOTHERFUCKER![/b][/color]" He all but roared as he sprinted over to where he'd forced the man down. A crashing in the undergrowth alerted Jacque to the fact that his bounty had taken off into the dense foliage of the forest. He raised his gun, but upon realizing he couldn't get a clear shot grit his teeth once more and charged after his quarry. "[b][color=004b80]I'm going to put a shot between your goddamned legs when I catch you![/color][/b]" He shouted ahead as he charged after the horse thief. Now made aware of Jacque's plans for him upon capture, the horse thief went into a full on sprint, fueled purely by adrenaline and the fear of what would come if he topped for even a moment, "[b]FOR THE LOVE OF GOD SOMEONE GET THIS CRAZY FUCK AWAY FROM ME!![/b]".