It isn't that Shima particularly cares for nature or anything, but there's a certain familiarity to it, from growing up in a wooded area with plenty of space for children to run around on their own exploring. He finds himself doing that now, casually wandering the woods farther from the campsite with one of the Ringmaster's fat bug-repelling candles balanced in his hand.

The Bigfeet seem to have left their own trails in the area and Shima follows those with idle curiosity, perhaps getting farther from the camp than he intended, though not so far that he's become completely lost yet. Coming upon a clearing eventually, he decides to stop to have a snack before he figures out the way back, which turns out to have been a harrowing decision for him when a giant shadow passes over him and he looks up to see a dark monstrous form swoop by.

Childermass will have gotten a pretty clear view of him from above on his first pass over, it's hard to miss the bright pink hair, made naturally vivid as the day it was dyed by a Carnival change, but as he drops to the ground in the clearing he may find that he's lost sight of Shima somehow in that interval. There's definitely a lit bug-repelling candle still sitting on a log nearby though.