After leaving a possible fellow victim to his demise--or whatever: Anya cared nothing for and stuck her neck out for no one but herself and her family, much less a firestarter who was going to get others killed--she found herself face to face with trouble of a humanoid sort. "No." She backed away, and a sharp point pressed against her back. Judging from those surrounding her, it was yet another arrow. At least it wasn't a weapon that could have a mind of its own, like the tech she'd known all her life, but damn. She'd been too concerned about distance and fire and resisting the urge to seek high limbs to be on guard for more of them.
"Easy, fellas. I'm not the one who set the blaze. If you're looking for him, he's back that way." She pointed, and they nodded, which initially she took as a sign they'd understood and had better things to hunt. But no. One took her blade, another her bag, and a third gestured for her to move back in the direction she'd come from.
<She-warrior>, the one with the most horns made a grating sound. Words, perhaps, but Anya couldn't tell. She raised her hands to show she didn't have another dagger--although the second one was in her other boot--and he got into her face with a breath that smelled of rotting things and seemed to muse. Then he made a gesture, another sound like the creak of wood. <Other-metal.> Someone tugged at her leg, pulling the hidden dagger free.
As they marched her along, they passed another of their number, a stick-thin man, perhaps, with a partially missing antler-horn thing. The leader barked something at him that she couldn't understand. She was too distracted to try, given the mass of swarming vinelets at his feet, starting to form a sort of platform next to an unconscious woman.
<That Hornless is trouble, Answer. Leave for Darkness.>
The expression on the lone hunter's face was intriguing, and he didn't respond to her contingent of kidnappers, but rather crooned to the plantlife. A rebel, eh? Too bad the enemy-of-my-enemy business is such a sticking point. Once more, it mattered little, because Anya was to be escorted with her comrades to a wooden cage/hut and tossed inside with more force than she'd have deemed necessary, had she been doing the collecting. Others were inside. A man, bloodied, and a woman. Still had their bags, she noted, then backed against a far wall. Not easily, as it was a small space, but as far as she could get away from the other Vitalife victims. The horned people didn't speak her language, but did these? "That your blood, or did you get one of these bastards before they took you down?"
--
Meanwhile, Answer continued to speak to the leaves, bidding the vines to coil and hoping the little ones were strong enough to lift the stranger on the pallet they'd formed. Obediently not taking nibbles out of what Answer had decided would be the Elder's prime offering, the vines begin to creep over the Hornless's still form.
"Easy, fellas. I'm not the one who set the blaze. If you're looking for him, he's back that way." She pointed, and they nodded, which initially she took as a sign they'd understood and had better things to hunt. But no. One took her blade, another her bag, and a third gestured for her to move back in the direction she'd come from.
<She-warrior>, the one with the most horns made a grating sound. Words, perhaps, but Anya couldn't tell. She raised her hands to show she didn't have another dagger--although the second one was in her other boot--and he got into her face with a breath that smelled of rotting things and seemed to muse. Then he made a gesture, another sound like the creak of wood. <Other-metal.> Someone tugged at her leg, pulling the hidden dagger free.
As they marched her along, they passed another of their number, a stick-thin man, perhaps, with a partially missing antler-horn thing. The leader barked something at him that she couldn't understand. She was too distracted to try, given the mass of swarming vinelets at his feet, starting to form a sort of platform next to an unconscious woman.
<That Hornless is trouble, Answer. Leave for Darkness.>
The expression on the lone hunter's face was intriguing, and he didn't respond to her contingent of kidnappers, but rather crooned to the plantlife. A rebel, eh? Too bad the enemy-of-my-enemy business is such a sticking point. Once more, it mattered little, because Anya was to be escorted with her comrades to a wooden cage/hut and tossed inside with more force than she'd have deemed necessary, had she been doing the collecting. Others were inside. A man, bloodied, and a woman. Still had their bags, she noted, then backed against a far wall. Not easily, as it was a small space, but as far as she could get away from the other Vitalife victims. The horned people didn't speak her language, but did these? "That your blood, or did you get one of these bastards before they took you down?"
--
Meanwhile, Answer continued to speak to the leaves, bidding the vines to coil and hoping the little ones were strong enough to lift the stranger on the pallet they'd formed. Obediently not taking nibbles out of what Answer had decided would be the Elder's prime offering, the vines begin to creep over the Hornless's still form.
Dreams come in a size too big so we can grow into them.
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