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