The contact the girl's hand to the beast's side was brief.

So brief at that, that she had already found herself [i]there[/i]. For the outside observers a faint ethereal mist swirled to life from one place and existed the same in another, the latter being across the ravine and the former being where they stood. So far and so fast did the pair travel, in between that moment of realization by others that something had even happened, that they had arrived. What naturally followed was the fading of the spectral atmosphere thereafter, chill mists returned to their place in the world beyond.

The ancient being simply walked away at that point without another word to Junko, seeing itself over to Jane and still unaffected despite its dense fur and enormous size in the heat of this jungle.