[ the mud is cold and clammy around your most of you, and one could imagine that it might actually be nice and refreshing to be rolling around in on a hot day when one also isn't in immediate danger of death by trampling (or other means) by other very angry-looking things in the near proximity. ]
[ in any case, it makes for a decent place to lay low for now, probably just until--- ]
[ ---wait. ]
[ is that tall grass clump of reeds ahead of you shaking? ]