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RE: None of Us Would Ever Come Home Again [closed] - Naunet - 03-07-2015
Thal spun and very nearly attacked the duskwight standing with them. His tail lashed, fur standing on end, and though he wasn't tired, his body went through the motions of breathing hard from the adrenaline of the chase. "You really got the best timing," his words came out a little sharper than intended while his senses continued on high alert, nostrils flared and ears swiveling behind him. "Don't s'pose you could just 'wander' us outta here, huh?"
RE: None of Us Would Ever Come Home Again [closed] - Twinflame - 03-07-2015
"Doubtful. I would encourage you to wander south." The rush of dust consumed the vague figure, a shadow no longer cast, and as the dust began to disperse sunlight pierced the air where the Duskwight had been.
"What?" K'aijeen, who hadn't seen the person Thal had been talking to, returned to the paused man in confusion. She tugged at his arm. "Where now? They'll find a way up!"
RE: None of Us Would Ever Come Home Again [closed] - Naunet - 03-07-2015
"Yeah, yeah, I know." Blue eyes sought out the vague, red-topped silhouette of K'ile Tia. Injuries had slowed his retreat considerably. Thal grimaced and scooped up D'aijeen again. "We're goin' now." Then he ran, to the opposite side of the outcrop that the sundrakes clambered at, and leapt to the ground. The landing jarred up his spine, but it barely paused him before he darted after K'ile, stirring up a small cloud of dust in his wake.
The Tia was easy to catch up to, given his pace, and he swerved into the slightly smaller man, grabbing at K'ile's arm. "You wanna live, you go south with me. Unless you like being drake food."
RE: None of Us Would Ever Come Home Again [closed] - Naunet - 03-07-2015
Curling close to Thal, K'aijeen watched with wide eyes as the dead man chased down the fleeing Tia.
K'ile pulled away from Thal, growling at him. "Why? The Amal'jaa won't hurt me! They're here to-" A bolt thudded to one side of them, followed by a number of others in the dirt around them. K'ile only paused for a moment before insisting, "They're not going to hurt me."
RE: None of Us Would Ever Come Home Again [closed] - Naunet - 03-07-2015
"Don't be an idiot," Thal snapped and set D'aijeen down. "Some cover, kiddo," he muttered to her and then to the Tia, with a shove against the man's shoulders, "Go!"
RE: None of Us Would Ever Come Home Again [closed] - Twinflame - 03-07-2015
Once on the ground, K'aijeen had no idea what to do. Cover? Oh, he meant... She swung the branch and stirred up the dust around them. It was thinner in this place, though, the ground underneath them more rocky. K'aijeen kept one arm on Thal as she did this, and as soon as she was done, she clung tightly to his arm.
The Tia, once pushed, spun around on Thal and glared at him weekly. One ear twitched. "I'm not going anywhere you tell me to. I'll fight you again."
RE: None of Us Would Ever Come Home Again [closed] - Naunet - 03-07-2015
"I'll knock ya cold again and drag you. That what you want, stupid?" Thal stepped right up into K'ile's personal space, blue eyes flashing behind the mask he still wore. "Got no desire to see you eaten, so get going!"
RE: None of Us Would Ever Come Home Again [closed] - Twinflame - 03-07-2015
"They're trained, you... have always been so stupid!" K'ile turned his angry glare on K'aijeen. "Why couldn't you have brought him back smarter or something?"
K'aijeen pressed her face against Thal's skin, her eyes closed, and made a small helpless sound. The dust around them had begun to disperse. More bolts thudded into the dirt around them. Fewer this time. K'aijeen flinched and tugged on Thal.
K'ile backed away from them. "The longer you drag me around the longer they'll chase you. They've got plans that need me alive."
RE: None of Us Would Ever Come Home Again [closed] - Naunet - 03-07-2015
"Oh they do now, huh?" Thal had to jerk to one side to avoid having his foot skewered by one of the bolts. He growled, red ears laying flat against his skull. "I got plans that keep you from making a huge mistake with those beastmen that ends with a lotta people I don't remember but still bloody care about getting killed, so--"
Thal had crouched slightly as he spoke, and before he finished his sentence launched himself at K'ile, intending to bowl the man over and knock him unconscious again if he had to.
RE: None of Us Would Ever Come Home Again [closed] - Twinflame - 03-07-2015
K'aijeen keened when Thal pulled away from her, stumbling with the suddenness of his movement and pulling her hands close to her veiled face when she found herself standing alone.
Poor K'ile had been getting a lot of shit thrown his way lately. He was tired of getting pounced by Nunhs. There was no need to knock him unconscious, his former concussion renewed and flaring as he hit the hard ground beneath them. He lay stunned from that, limbs weak.
RE: None of Us Would Ever Come Home Again [closed] - Naunet - 03-07-2015
Thal rolled to his feet and dragged the Tia up with him. "Better off if ya don't struggle," he bit out and then shouted, "C'mon, kid!" before turning south, tail lashing and fur standing on end.
RE: None of Us Would Ever Come Home Again [closed] - Twinflame - 03-07-2015
K'aijeen ran out ahead of them and swung her branch at the ground, stirring up dust, but in ever-decreasing amounts, as though she had already blown it all away. "Why do you keep bringing him?" Her voice began to grate as the dirt in the air got in the wound, and she placed her hand over it. "He'll slow us down, get us killed!"
RE: None of Us Would Ever Come Home Again [closed] - Naunet - 03-07-2015
"Maybe I'm just being stupid," Thal grumbled. "No time for arguing right now, kiddo. Just run." Hefting K'ile Tia up off the ground, Thal moved as quickly as he could without outrunning D'aijeen. He directed them south and tried not to think too much on the sundrakes and Amal'jaa likely on their tail.
RE: None of Us Would Ever Come Home Again [closed] - Twinflame - 03-07-2015
K'aijeen would not run ahead of Thal. She would not run far behind him. She stayed close to him, but far from K'ile, too afraid to deviate more than a few fulms in any direction.
In the direction that Thal ran, there had once been Amal'jaa beastmasters, carrying hooks and meat with which to command their Sun Drakes. Now, as Thal descended the robes, there were three abandoned black bodies, scales dully colored in the sun. There was very little blood to mark the demise of the Amal'jaa hunters, and very little sign that they had struggled. They were simply dead heaps.
No more bolts fell. The shouts of the Sun Drakes still came, however.
RE: None of Us Would Ever Come Home Again [closed] - Naunet - 03-08-2015
Thal didn't question the bodies, suspected strongly the work of his Duskwight friend and accepted it. Welcomed it, even, as it was aiding them in escape. Cliffs jutted up on the horizon; he just hoped that they could keep ahead of the sundrakes long enough to make it to the rocks. It would be much easier to take shelter and climb out of reach of the beasts there.