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On the way to [http://www.blkdragon.com/ Mhernettla]...
 
 
[http://www.blkdragon.com/wiki/index.php?title=Elgar_Forest Elgar Forest]
 
 
 Kestrel left
 
Drache behind her, with most of her possessions..as soon as she left a red
 
tailed hawk above swirled over her head. 
 
She tilted her head slightly..and paused a moment, perhaps it was the
 
way it was flying, or the way it was looking at her that had her attention
 
instantly.  When it landed in front of
 
her she tilted her head slightly.. seeing something on its back, a small
 
leather pack..she carefully approached the hawk and carefully peeked inside the
 
small leather pouch.  A surprise beyond
 
all surprises..a note from Grainne..with a door key.. She sat down and read the
 
note..
 
 
She read over
 
the explanation of why her mother had left the Korthai.. and why Grainne had
 
stayed. As well as her true lineage..she closed her eyes and sighed.  She knew that she probably wouldn't get back
 
before Grainne passed..she had smelled the sickness within her for some time
 
now. It was eating away at her like a terrible parasite that couldnt be
 
exterminated.  She sniffed a little
 
bit..wiping the tears away.  She had truly
 
come to love the old woman.  Sure she
 
knew what they were calling her back at Drache. 
 
Wharf slut, Drache whore, Dock slut. 
 
She wrote another note..and carefully put it in the pouch on the hawks
 
back. She gave the hawk a piece of her jerky and helped him up on her arm.  Together instead of north they headed east to
 
the Elgar forest.. and the city beyond.
 
 
in the
 
morning she cautiously picked a path closest to the shore line when she saw the
 
forest..she paused just before entering it, and told the hawk to go..it would
 
return to Grainne as long as she was living. It was far better to enter the
 
forest in the day than at night..she hoped she could get through it before
 
nights end. Still she kept close to the edge just near the shore where she
 
could. Eventually she came upon a decomposing orc. The extreme close-up of the
 
orc's mouth, all of the teeth in full display was no better from at a
 
distance. The gums were black, and the huge teeth were put into perspective by
 
her thumb that clearly showed the smallest of them was over four inches in
 
length. Its muscular density is four times what it was for a human being, and
 
the bones were almost as dense as hemlock wood. A creature that should have
 
already weighed in at close to a four hundred pounds, the ogre corpse was closer to five. When she counted in the missing limbs and decomposition of the body,
 
that was pretty damned scary. When she added in that the corpse belonged to an
 
adolescent orc, wondering what killed it was terrifying.
 
 
Kestrel
 
stepped back, of course she knew what could kill it..there was only one thing
 
that fucking large. She looked to the sky, her gaze roaming across it, then toward
 
the wood.  With the amount of decomposure
 
it was probably long gone..but still there had been one near here.  She picked up her bag and kept close to the
 
shoreline, but still in the wood for cover. 
 
She slid her white hair up under the hat her brother had given her and made
 
way deeper in to the forest.
 
 
There was
 
some sort of furry brown creature, about twice the size of a possum, perched
 
on a low branch, eating what might of been a bird. The creature had large fangs
 
and paid no attention to Kestrel as she sneaked past it. The creature stuffed
 
the bird's feet into its mouth, and skittered off through the trees.
 
 
The shore
 
forced her inward she continued moving deeper into the forest, and she realized
 
that she was starting to develop a nervous knot in her stomach.  The forest was eldritch in a bad way.  Kestrel wasn't into any of that -doom and gloom- crap, yet she couldn't quite get over the feeling that, yes, this place
 
was giving off negative energy.
 
 
Kestrel saw
 
several other creatures as she  moved
 
through the forest: a reptilian humanoid whose face was ninety percent eyes, a beetle
 
the size of a small dog, bat-like things with glowing red eyes, and a wolf with matted bloody fur.  None of which could actually
 
attack her as prey. As she was forced deeper in to the forest the creatures
 
became more and more frequent. The Forest was packed with monsters. Beasts with
 
claws and fangs, tentacles, huge red eyes, and every kind of
 
grotesque appendage she could imagine. Some were recognizable, some were like
 
nightmare versions of familiar creatures she had seen in Panguro, and others bore no resemblance
 
whatsoever to anything Kestrel  had ever
 
seen.  Some of it was a wonder to her
 
most of it absolutely terrifying.
 
 
Half in and
 
half out of the ground Kestrel saw a woman. 
 
She wasn’t really a woman, per se, but she had breasts and she had a
 
nice upper body of a woman. From the navel down
 
her body got thicker and tapered off into a powerfully thick eel like body that
 
was slithering below her in to a large inky fluid filled pit as she gazed at Kestrel.  She had black eyes, just like the crowned
 
serpent she studied a few days  before
 
The eel girl leaned in closer and smiled at her with full, sensuous, and
 
slightly black lips. Kestrel smiled back, a little nervously. The eel woman
 
moved closer Kestrel with a seductive smile on her face. She wasn’t human, no
 
two ways about that, but she was exotic and Kestrel stared, fascinated by her.
 
Right up until the time she opened her mouth and bared the four-inch curved fangs that
 
slid out from her upper and lower jaws. The fact that her mouth opened wide
 
enough to swallow her head was a little unsettling, too.  This was no nice eel lady, this
 
thing was primal, vicious, and very hungry.  Kestrel
 
had no choice..it was her or nothing. 
 
She shoved her bow staff up deep in to the eels mouth,  while she fumbled around in her boot for her
 
knife.  The coils of the eel whipped
 
around and caught her coiling around Kestrel's legs and arm. Kestrel managed to yank
 
her arm free with the blade in hand, quickly twisting it the way Uther showed
 
her and sunk the blade deep in to its head and brain matter.  Blood spurted out everywhere  venom dripped from its fangs on to her steel
 
staff.  Causing Kestrel to drop the staff
 
before the vicious liquid touched her skin. 
 
With her heart pounding in her chest she leaned back on the forest
 
floor, gasping for air, her eyes wide. 
 
It was the first time Kestrel had killed anything in resemblance to a
 
humanoid.  She quickly rolled over and
 
vomited on the forest floor, heaving until she did it dry.
 
 
Kestrel let
 
out gasp of surprise. Something big had just bumped into the tree's beyond, and
 
big in this case to rock the trees beyond. By the smell she could tell
 
there  were a lot of creatures were
 
moving in for a closer look. Kestrel grabbed her staff ignoring the venom
 
dripping from the end of it.  She ran,
 
darting past the trees and underbrush, as far away as her legs could carry her.
 
Monsters, demons, and the great sea serpent alone knew what else was coming she
 
wasn't sticking behind to find out. 
 
Ahead she saw an opening that would bring her out on to the shore and in to the
 
daylight.  She aimed for it and ran for
 
it.  One should never stop and look over
 
their shoulder while running. Kestrel looked back over her shoulder and saw
 
something moving in the distance. She didn’t know what it was, but it pushed a
 
tree hard enough to make it sway. Giving it a little thought, Kestrel decided
 
she was perfectly fine never actually seeing whatever was large enough to knock
 
around a seventy six-foot tree. She ran, jumping down the sandy embankment in
 
to the sun,  the rocks scraping her body
 
and ripping at her clothing.  She found a
 
respite big enough for her to crawl in to and hide. To which she did. and
 
closed her eyes for the moment. Kestrel didn't want to think of the weird things
 
lurking outside. She’d had enough. It was better just to think about being back
 
home, where she would be safe and sound with Grainne.
 
 
Just past the
 
entrance, several sets of eyes stared back, watching every movement that she
 
made; in front of her the corpse of an unfortunate traveler.  The corpse stared up at the roof of her
 
hidden abode, as if something had been on it upon death.  She leaned over and reached for the firearm
 
resting at his side..it wasn't very old it had not begun to form rust on any metallic
 
parts of the cross bow. She yanked the quiver free, while watching the thing
 
just beyond the rock.. she got the crossbow loaded after several tries..she
 
worked quickly as she repeatedly heard the  scraping claws across the rocky floor. She was
 
probably going to freak out a little.  Kestrel hadn't expected to be squeamish, but
 
something about having twelve perfectly round eyes looking at her from above a
 
set of hairy mandibles big enough to eat her face was making her a little
 
twitchy.
 
 
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