[Aware enough to know that asking to be let go after supposedly being saved can come off as an insult, S'rei does pat the man's arm as he's released. The creature shrieks again and he glances, ear tilting as he tries to locate its approximate direction. Closer.]

I'll try to lead it back as I go, but it seems very fixated on you. If it won't abandon you, would you mind leading it a little more, [gestures a closed path with a finger in the air] circuitously? And I'll kill it. [Or he'll try. He'll try very hard. He's used to that being more than enough.]