"No... you don't understand" Andre breathed with discomfort, his tone sounding almost irritated that he needed to force out even more words to explain the situation.
"The Ixali... they already attacked our group. The girl I.. assume you saw... she and my-..self, by a stroke of luck, had been briefly sep-arated from the rest... right after our caravan was stopped..."
He paused briefly as his eyes rolled away back down to the ground, seemingly in thought, though his expression was a blatant revelation to his bitter feelings.
"...and before the Ixali attacked....".
Andre scowled slightly as he found himself stuttering and even speaking more slowly than he'd have liked, but simply finding the words necessary to properly summarise the situation was a challenge on it's own to him at this very moment. Each word he formed came with a new, tortuous pain that refreshed the pounding sensation which seemed to be radiating even further across the back of his skull, leaving the hyur to struggle against simply wincing from the sheer agony.
"They... took the others... and sent two scouts to try and find us, though just as one had returned to rejoin his group the other... he began to approach our hiding place.."
Andre slowly blinked a number of times as his focus was slowly but surely returning to him. Giving his skull one last firm squeeze of relievement, he slowly shook his head and raised his gaze away from the forest floor and brought it back to meet with the miqo'te's stare.
"Still... I'd appreciate if we could find her first....before anything else.."
"The Ixali... they already attacked our group. The girl I.. assume you saw... she and my-..self, by a stroke of luck, had been briefly sep-arated from the rest... right after our caravan was stopped..."
He paused briefly as his eyes rolled away back down to the ground, seemingly in thought, though his expression was a blatant revelation to his bitter feelings.
"...and before the Ixali attacked....".
Andre scowled slightly as he found himself stuttering and even speaking more slowly than he'd have liked, but simply finding the words necessary to properly summarise the situation was a challenge on it's own to him at this very moment. Each word he formed came with a new, tortuous pain that refreshed the pounding sensation which seemed to be radiating even further across the back of his skull, leaving the hyur to struggle against simply wincing from the sheer agony.
"They... took the others... and sent two scouts to try and find us, though just as one had returned to rejoin his group the other... he began to approach our hiding place.."
Andre slowly blinked a number of times as his focus was slowly but surely returning to him. Giving his skull one last firm squeeze of relievement, he slowly shook his head and raised his gaze away from the forest floor and brought it back to meet with the miqo'te's stare.
"Still... I'd appreciate if we could find her first....before anything else.."
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Characters: Andre Winter (Hy'ur) / K'nahli Yohko (Miqo'te)
