Still conscious, though at the bare minimum.

[colress himself was just barely suppressing a yawn when his partner speaks up, leaning back from his side of the fence to stretch out joints that have been inactive for a bit too long. arceus knows how long it's been since they were assigned the mission, though he can obviously tell it's been Quite some time: the dark sky shows that it has been a couple of hours since the assignment (the urge to check his pocket watch for specifics is smothered near instantly-- he did not want to upset himself further). alas, they still have an entire night of standing around only hoping for some action, and this has the normally energetic colress in a pretty bad mood.

the slump in his posture obviously shows his apparent boredom and foul attitude. he straightens up soon enough, though, gesturing somewhere towards his left.]

Some critter I couldn't recognize had come a little close, but it was nothing a two-second catapult couldn't rectify.

[if you saw him throw a rock somewhere towards the east-southeast, that was the reason why.]