Answer jumped when the bushes spoke with tones he was unused to hearing from the underbrush. At least, he was certain it was speech. It didn't have the same bark of his kinfolk, the same crooning rhythm he used with the flora, the same crinkle of life that spoke in return, but it had cadence and form...strange. He fumbled for his bow, holding it at the ready with his arm outstretched and no arrow nocked. Then the stranger at his feet spoke, too, her form unmoving but unleashing clear, unwavering and deep, unnatural tones nonetheless. The barely-a-warrior flipped his bow downward to thump the Hornless into submission. It didn't seem fazed, still making sound.
The vines under Answer's control shied from the strange sounds. The barely-a-warrior spotted the true speaker from beyond the green, another stranger, with eyes like leaves. He considered this, tried speaking to him like he would the vines, coaxing him to come closer, to leave the weapon(?) he bore behind. Suggesting, perhaps, whatever strange metal was pointing at him could be lowered, moved elsewhere. The vines were forgotten for a critical moment, and they scurried suddenly, snapping at each other as if they were fighting over a meal...which would, unless something was done quickly, prove to be the red-haired Hornless.
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Anya frowned at her fellow prisoners, glaring at the woman in particular, who seemed well enough though perhaps...in shock? If he died, there'd be more food for the rest of them, and there was no sense prolonging what was clearly his pain. "Do you intend to let him lay there until he dies?" Which sounded all well and good Samaritan and might have indicated she'd offer to patch him up, until Anya added the qualifier, "Perhaps you were too squeamish to put him out of his misery?"
Fighting over food and safe locales and outclimbing the slower fools so the cannibals would eat them first--or plants, given the current situation--would be too sated to continue pursuit of Anya herself, these were times she'd leave not-family to die. And since she didn't yet know with any certainty where her next meal would come from, she moved in close, thinking a clean snap should do the trick.
The vines under Answer's control shied from the strange sounds. The barely-a-warrior spotted the true speaker from beyond the green, another stranger, with eyes like leaves. He considered this, tried speaking to him like he would the vines, coaxing him to come closer, to leave the weapon(?) he bore behind. Suggesting, perhaps, whatever strange metal was pointing at him could be lowered, moved elsewhere. The vines were forgotten for a critical moment, and they scurried suddenly, snapping at each other as if they were fighting over a meal...which would, unless something was done quickly, prove to be the red-haired Hornless.
---
Anya frowned at her fellow prisoners, glaring at the woman in particular, who seemed well enough though perhaps...in shock? If he died, there'd be more food for the rest of them, and there was no sense prolonging what was clearly his pain. "Do you intend to let him lay there until he dies?" Which sounded all well and good Samaritan and might have indicated she'd offer to patch him up, until Anya added the qualifier, "Perhaps you were too squeamish to put him out of his misery?"
Fighting over food and safe locales and outclimbing the slower fools so the cannibals would eat them first--or plants, given the current situation--would be too sated to continue pursuit of Anya herself, these were times she'd leave not-family to die. And since she didn't yet know with any certainty where her next meal would come from, she moved in close, thinking a clean snap should do the trick.
Dreams come in a size too big so we can grow into them.
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