Answer's head bobbed between the vines, the weapon(?), the prone stranger and the standing one, then back to the baby maws of more vines, all of them holding conversations he was ill-prepared to join.
Rubbing at his solely intact horn in the irritated fashion another might've pulled their hair, he closed his eyes tightly, then opened them in a rush. <STOP!> Finally a sound like the crack of a breaking tree limb exploded from his green-tinted lips--a word that made the vines droop around the subject of their intended feast. Another flurry of words like the rustle of leaves to the pair of Hornless before him, though he knew not if they understood: <You come. See Elder.>
His brow furrowed, and while the expression could've been concern or anger, he spread his palms. <I not leave you to Darkness.>
Answer dropped his bow as the strangers spoke, crooning to a vine to collect it in his wake, which it did, and also gathered a loose arrow from the ground. Tentatively, he stepped forward. <You understand, 'Darkness', Hornless? Darkness like Fire. Fire eat. Darkness EAT. Elder...> He shrugged as if in apology. <...drink.> He pantomimed fangs as if imitating the vinelings at their feet, either uncaring or unknowing that he looked ridiculous, hopping up and down like a madman and chirruping things to two foreigners who likely understood him less than he understood his kin.
<Come.> he ordered, and the vines slithered, the platform under the red-haired Hornless moving toward him, toward the village.
---
Anya's mouth dropped open as the woman at the far side of their prison came forward to defend a stranger. Taken aback by a moment of seeming kindness, she shook it off. "He's not your kin. You're able-bodied enough to finish him. Why would you bother with a stranger's comfort? He'll only eat your food, and die anyway." She shook her head vehemently. "Where the hell do you people come from? Dressed like that," she swept an arm toward the woman's clothing and clicked her tongue against the roof of her mouth, "on my world means you were kept for something...special. But you sure don't act like one of them."
Anya froze, wishing for her knives as a sudden thought cut off her disparaging remarks. "Ah. Unless. Are you pretending, perhaps, because you intend to eat him?"
To the man who backed away from them both, she gave a harsh look, but nodded. He still had enough spark to defend himself, and, indeed, a weapon, though he only lit it briefly in warning, a secondary device held mockingly between his lips. She frowned at the smoke, thinking she might have seen one such thing before, on a crumpled sign in a crumpled town. This was not a space where she wished to succumb to flame. "Perhaps I was premature, then. If you are well enough to display such threats, you can fucking well live."
Anya sat back, leaning against the shell of the cage, glaring at her would-be companions. Once more, her gaze fell to their bags, the reining thought being of the physician's manipulation. She held out her abomination of an arm to show her wristband. "Did either of you get promised rations?" she asked after a long silence.
Rubbing at his solely intact horn in the irritated fashion another might've pulled their hair, he closed his eyes tightly, then opened them in a rush. <STOP!> Finally a sound like the crack of a breaking tree limb exploded from his green-tinted lips--a word that made the vines droop around the subject of their intended feast. Another flurry of words like the rustle of leaves to the pair of Hornless before him, though he knew not if they understood: <You come. See Elder.>
His brow furrowed, and while the expression could've been concern or anger, he spread his palms. <I not leave you to Darkness.>
Answer dropped his bow as the strangers spoke, crooning to a vine to collect it in his wake, which it did, and also gathered a loose arrow from the ground. Tentatively, he stepped forward. <You understand, 'Darkness', Hornless? Darkness like Fire. Fire eat. Darkness EAT. Elder...> He shrugged as if in apology. <...drink.> He pantomimed fangs as if imitating the vinelings at their feet, either uncaring or unknowing that he looked ridiculous, hopping up and down like a madman and chirruping things to two foreigners who likely understood him less than he understood his kin.
<Come.> he ordered, and the vines slithered, the platform under the red-haired Hornless moving toward him, toward the village.
---
Anya's mouth dropped open as the woman at the far side of their prison came forward to defend a stranger. Taken aback by a moment of seeming kindness, she shook it off. "He's not your kin. You're able-bodied enough to finish him. Why would you bother with a stranger's comfort? He'll only eat your food, and die anyway." She shook her head vehemently. "Where the hell do you people come from? Dressed like that," she swept an arm toward the woman's clothing and clicked her tongue against the roof of her mouth, "on my world means you were kept for something...special. But you sure don't act like one of them."
Anya froze, wishing for her knives as a sudden thought cut off her disparaging remarks. "Ah. Unless. Are you pretending, perhaps, because you intend to eat him?"
To the man who backed away from them both, she gave a harsh look, but nodded. He still had enough spark to defend himself, and, indeed, a weapon, though he only lit it briefly in warning, a secondary device held mockingly between his lips. She frowned at the smoke, thinking she might have seen one such thing before, on a crumpled sign in a crumpled town. This was not a space where she wished to succumb to flame. "Perhaps I was premature, then. If you are well enough to display such threats, you can fucking well live."
Anya sat back, leaning against the shell of the cage, glaring at her would-be companions. Once more, her gaze fell to their bags, the reining thought being of the physician's manipulation. She held out her abomination of an arm to show her wristband. "Did either of you get promised rations?" she asked after a long silence.
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