K'iara wasted no time with setting K'nahli to work and lucky it was that K'nahli had not tarried much longer with sending her gaze toward the older huntress's direction lest she have missed the order and earned further disfavour that night. A quick and stoic nod indicated the girl's understanding before she quickly returned her gaze toward K'tahjha, meeting with the younger girl's emerald eyes before uttering an almost soundless whisper in her direction:
"Stay close".
With little delay, the archer hastily pushed forward into the welcoming, shroud of the evening's, falling darkness. Under normal circumstances the girl might have instead instructed K'tahjha to remain with the main party for the time being. After all, the very first excursion, and one held immediately preceding the quickly approaching night at that, was not truly the ideal time to have the young girl earn some experience with scouting in the ill-imagined event that she might only serve to scare any potential quarry off. Still, K'nahli had not the nerve nor the energy to do so right now. The path of least resistance was most alluring right now, even if the risks of drama later on were not beyond the realms of possibility.
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Darkness was no true companion of the sunseeker miqo'te, but it was a ritual long-since adapted to in the harsh years directly following the calamity. Though they were stripped of their fiendishly, perceptive eyesight during these hours, the Hipparion tribe's hunters and huntresses were certainly not to be underestimated. The fleet-footed girl quickly scurried her away across the landscape in a north-easterly direction, effectively dodging between the obstructing brambles and over loose gravel in an admirable and, so far, successful effort to avoid making any sound at all. In truth it was but a childish matter of discerning the environment around her by dodging between the subtle but perceivably darker silhouettes that decorated the barren floor around her.
The whole experience certainly was something new, and surely in better days, something that she would quickly learn to find both exciting and truly invigorating. Merely moving forward, even with a cautiously reduced pace, consumed a lot more energy in a short space of time than it would have in less taxing environment of Sagolii - where the sandy dunes loyally betrayed little-to-no sound, even for the more heavy-footed of hunters; but even so, that would only be something that would make it all the more interesting to K'nahli. The thrill of a hunt and the new challenges that it would pose... even now, somewhere deep inside her it still tickled at her stomach, though hopefully someday soon she would allow herself to truly and wholly appreciate this new experience.
Even in this new environment, the agile girl would normally be far more swift with this particular duty; though regardless of her large absence of mind right now, she could not neglect to remember that the young and ill-experienced K'tahjha was in close pursuit of her - for a variety of reasons.
Coming to a slow halt near the summit of a softly-sloped hill, K'nahli brought herself to a more stealthy crouch as she turned to cast her eyes back toward K'tahjha and observe her progress.
"Stay close".
With little delay, the archer hastily pushed forward into the welcoming, shroud of the evening's, falling darkness. Under normal circumstances the girl might have instead instructed K'tahjha to remain with the main party for the time being. After all, the very first excursion, and one held immediately preceding the quickly approaching night at that, was not truly the ideal time to have the young girl earn some experience with scouting in the ill-imagined event that she might only serve to scare any potential quarry off. Still, K'nahli had not the nerve nor the energy to do so right now. The path of least resistance was most alluring right now, even if the risks of drama later on were not beyond the realms of possibility.
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Darkness was no true companion of the sunseeker miqo'te, but it was a ritual long-since adapted to in the harsh years directly following the calamity. Though they were stripped of their fiendishly, perceptive eyesight during these hours, the Hipparion tribe's hunters and huntresses were certainly not to be underestimated. The fleet-footed girl quickly scurried her away across the landscape in a north-easterly direction, effectively dodging between the obstructing brambles and over loose gravel in an admirable and, so far, successful effort to avoid making any sound at all. In truth it was but a childish matter of discerning the environment around her by dodging between the subtle but perceivably darker silhouettes that decorated the barren floor around her.
The whole experience certainly was something new, and surely in better days, something that she would quickly learn to find both exciting and truly invigorating. Merely moving forward, even with a cautiously reduced pace, consumed a lot more energy in a short space of time than it would have in less taxing environment of Sagolii - where the sandy dunes loyally betrayed little-to-no sound, even for the more heavy-footed of hunters; but even so, that would only be something that would make it all the more interesting to K'nahli. The thrill of a hunt and the new challenges that it would pose... even now, somewhere deep inside her it still tickled at her stomach, though hopefully someday soon she would allow herself to truly and wholly appreciate this new experience.
Even in this new environment, the agile girl would normally be far more swift with this particular duty; though regardless of her large absence of mind right now, she could not neglect to remember that the young and ill-experienced K'tahjha was in close pursuit of her - for a variety of reasons.
Coming to a slow halt near the summit of a softly-sloped hill, K'nahli brought herself to a more stealthy crouch as she turned to cast her eyes back toward K'tahjha and observe her progress.
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Characters: Andre Winter (Hy'ur) / K'nahli Yohko (Miqo'te)
