Post by Hyakurin on Oct 13, 2016 23:25:40 GMT 1
Hyakurin decided she had rested enough it was time to return to the den. She carefully moved trying not to awaken Nectar. She placed the preserver on top of the one cocooned honey comb in the basket. *Come on little brother.* She sent to Breakneck. Who stretched lazily then haunted on ahead of her. She started her return. When she came across her first trap she found a decent sized bird. She carefully lifted the trap enough to reach her hand in. Getting pecked and clawed a few times enough to draw blood, she got ahold of the bird and tied its legs together. Normally she would have eaten her catch there and shared it with Breakneck. But she wanted to bring it back alive. I need something to cover its head she thought. I'll not have you pecking me again she looked to the bird. She looked at the sleeping Preserver not wanting to wake it. How helpful you'd be right now she thought. She looked around those leaves won't do. She decided she didn't want to rip her leathers so she simply took off her top and wrapped it around the birds head. Hopefully the bird will keep its breath she thought. She dismantled the trap wrapping it to her back. To take it up to higher ground before it rotted when the rains came. She only had a handful of traps... she didn't set many since fruit and fish were in abundance. But she wouldn't lose them to the elements. She'd gather the rest on the way. And return to catch the dried fish from the flake a day or two from now.
When she got to the second trap Breaknecks neck raised and he took a defensive stance. *Quiet!* She sent. She'd let her guard down with her companions arrival... The trap had been disturbed. She didn't like the scent it was unfamiliar. Not a wolf, not a tusk mouth, but something as large if not larger! There were claw marks on a tree nearby and it had clearly scented the area. She left the trap this was no good she thought. She wasn't prepared to fight a large animal. *We must go quickly but quietly brother!* she sent to the wolf. **There is something here in the forest.** She sent to Oakroot. **Something I've never smelled before.... Breakneck smells it as well... We don't like the smell of it! I don't sense that it's still here. But we were headed back anyway.** She continued ahead. Traveling away from the scent quickly, cautiously, and quietly.