I think I might be so much bigger that they don't realize that I could be alive at all! That's the plan, anyway...

[he says that last in an undertone, barely moving his jaw, and then returns to quiet. he needs to be a rock, after all!

...sooner or later, one of the little lizards DOES poke its nose out from under the boulder and squint suspiciously around. Geir holds his breath, eyes wide and fixed on the tiny reptile.]