Nate saw that he was gesturing for people to help. So Nate took a piece of a long strip of what he was hopeing steak and tossed it a bit further towards the forbidden forest. Then Nate said "Don't worry none of us are trying to harm you." If they would've tried harming it two things. One professor Willamson would have their heads. And two it would have been thestral jerky by now.