Lake Rodney When you see me baby will you scream or will you laugh?

Sakari expected him to call out immediately. Everything about him said that he would be the perfect mark for this ruse; big, awkward, dopey... and all alone. She had expected him to practically trip over himself in his rush to come to her rescue. 

...Maybe he was one of those real socially-awkward types. She would give him more time. 

She lowered herself onto the riverbank, submerging her "injured" paw into the river in a show of numbing the pain. Although she still refused to look in the man's direction, every fiber of her being was keenly aware that he was there. In her effort to catch the words she expected him to speak, one ear swiveled his direction in a brief, involuntary motion. Sakari caught herself quickly, and she directed both ears forward once more. Shit. Had he seen that? 

Better safe than sorry. Sakari swung her head around as if she had "just noticed" the man standing in the river. She inhaled in a barely-audible gasp, and tensed her prone body fearfully.