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Meanwhile a lean figured drapped in beautiful snowy white robes from head to toe lay lazyly on a large tree branch that hung over the forest path. Her robes hung losely around her slim body, and the branch she sat atop, not unlike a banner hanging from a post. Especialy since her robes stood out so well against the dark earthy trees, and the leafy floor of the forest.
Her keen eyes caught sight of a reptilian like woman heading her way at an amazing speed. Not wanting to be seen quite yet, she chanted a few words and her robes seemed to slowly lose their color, until both her and her robes were completly transparent.
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"...Are they now?", Pax replied, with the sort of grin that suggested she knew something he didn't and wasn't going to tell. "Righto then, whatever you say", she laughed, before turning and walking away with the obvious intent of following Nadda into the forest.
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"Pssh. Lions and bears are easy. Try werewolves and chaos demons, then we might think about reconsidering", Pax shot back to him before gently lifting off the ground and flying after the Tsaiv, faint wisps of energy trailing after her. The rest of what he said, she apparently ignored.
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"Oh you think it so easy? Alright first it's easier on weak minds but the stronger minds of a person the harder it is. Case in point was the time it took for the guy in the tree to be affected."
"Second a person can build a resistance to a Songspell so I do try not to use it to often. Third the energy to cast magic don't come cheep your paying for my dinner!"
Once he said that he then started warming up with a few notes. Then he started the Songspell again singing the same strange melody he did when he put the thugs to sleep the first time.
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From above the thick leaves of the forest canopy sounded a noise that could've best been described as a sail catching wind; a tarp as it thrust a wave into air. A second noise, or rather a series of them, followed stante pede, reminiscent of jet engines, and yet so much quieter than any modern aircraft currently achieved.
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"Did anyone else heard that? Something sounded odd for a few moments there."
"Hey, as long as that meal doesn't entitle a date as well. Because I don't roll that way, buddy. Oh, and pax, the things in this forest make werwolves look like cute little puppies." Adam reported while pausing to watch the bard work his magic.
(Did anyone else hear that?)
"Uh, no not really. I didn't hear anything. Maybe you're hearing something far off in the distance. I'm told you elves have hearing that goes on for miles." Adam tied to reason. He didn't want to doubt someone with better hearing, and he couldn't hear anything but The bards signing.
The robed figure lounging in the tree limbs ahead shifted her weight slightly, while still attempting to be undetectable. When the bard's song reached her ears however, she couldn't help herself, and she started humming a small siren's tune to match his melody. Even when he stopped his song to comment on the noise, she didn't skip a single note, carrying the thieves into a hazy dream land.
When she realized what she'd done, she held her breath, hopping that no one would notice.
Someone had indeed better have heard something, for Adam was right to a much greater measure than his words suggested. Lusha Forest indeed held things aside from some rather unusual lions and bears, and if one of these happened to be tigers, they certainly weren't the worst. Something else was in that forest, and Adam probably had no idea just how right he was.
For on a world like Acunim, where castles walked and towns had taverns, a world where monarchs ruled upon their thrones and the gods themselves were still involved with the land's magic, that something was (of course) nothing other than the obligatory presence of a dragon.
Owner of a prominently snow-white hide, the large quadruped had been what had rustled the bushes, drawn to the sound of the commotion just like a certain new arrival - though of course sans axe. Instead, it carried upon its back a wide black stripe, which ran all the way from the short, single horn of its nose to the fire-red deltoid that was the tail tip. It hitherto covered just about the entirety of the dragon's back, including the outer skin of its wings, and thus also obscured the long mane of black hair upon its head and (not very long) neck, parted in two places not by horns, but long, slender white ears instead.
In fact, the horn on its nose was the only one this dragon had, though the claws on its feet and the hooks of its wings made up for that rather decently. Three on each foot they were, and one on each wing, the 'fingers' that didn't serve as skeletal supports within the wings themselves.
Remarkably, especially for its size, the creature moved rather quietly. Wings folded against its back, only a rustle here and there now paid witness to its walk toward the group - which apparently only gave Zuzana further reason to march on regardless of the warnings.
"This place is able to have saber-tooth tiger for all I care." she grumbled back to Adam as he followed, her confidence in her abilities as a soldier apparently knowing no bounds. Well, either that or she was just getting sick of being around humans, "Or giant swamp squid. Or dart strangler snake. Or..."
She counted off a few more things that lived back in the swamps of Esertos, the original Tsaiv homelands, just about any of which would've qualified as a mythical monster in the mind of a human. Finally though, she seemed to have enough. Upon reaching a small clearing, she stopped and turned about-face to Adam, placing hands at her hips.
"For the last time, I tell you:" she insisted just as the dragon poked its nose through the trees right behind her, quietly setting front feet not a meter from the Nadpráporèík's back, towering over the alien woman with nearly twice her size, "There stands nothing in this woods I am unable to handle..."
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Wow! that's a rare sight among these parts." Adam stated in awe googling the dragon. He'd read stories about the dieing race, but he'd never actually seen one. They really were as beautiful, and as dangerous looking as the stories had always told him.
"Are you hear to eat us? or help us? Because I really can't let you eat me right now. I've got a few things to take care of first." Adam gave the remark to the dragon after he'd gotten over the shock of it being there in the first place.
The woman in the tree's let out a small sigh of relief. It appeared that the dragon's entrance had pulled anyone from noticing her slip up. She let herself relax slightly, but maybe a bit too much. As she lost her balance enough that she started to wobble on the tree branch, and slip off. She still hung to the branch and had not fallen to make noise, but she'd let out a small yelp when she fell.
Frainticaly she pulled herself back up onto the branch, and pressed her body against the tree's trunk, cursing herself under her breath, and hoping that the noise would be dismissed as a forest animal.
"Oww really Adam you should open yourself to new experiances. But for now I just want a meal no date."
He reached into one of his pouches on his belt and pulled out a leaf and chewed it savering the flavor. The sweet leaf was a Kalana leaf that was adictive but with mild effects much like the effects of Cigarettes.
That was when the dragon appeared and he spat out the leaf. "Oh great... Okay next time I got an urge to follow a guy that was about to be mugged in a Tavern I shall ignore it."
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This hope was dashed, however, by the sudden appearance of an axe-blade, hovering mere centimeters from her throat.
"Looks like I found me a native," the man growled from beside her. "I got a few questions I'd like answered. Nothin' complicated, so keep the answers simple and we can get through this just fine."
The dragon was the obvious target since many demonic forces took on similar forms, but he'd learned not to be too hasty. Best to get the lay of the land first. And hopefully the chick would be able to fill in a few holes.
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"Oh really...?", Pax replied, clearly not believing him. She almost considered going Dwarf form just for shock value, but decided against it in favor of simply following along with the rest of them, until something grabbed her attention.
That something of course was the sound of singing coming quietly from a nearby tree. She looked around, but saw nothing. She'd keep her guard up though, no bird she knew of sang like that. Someone else was out here, and likely didn't want them to know. "You know, you really shouldn't eat those things", she commented offhandedly to the bard, referring to the leaf he was chewing on.
Of course, then something else showed up to distract her. Namely, the dragon. Pax seemed oddly calm in its presence - perhaps she'd met one before? Or just overconfident, maybe. Either way, she walked right up to it and gave a friendly wave. Well, just outside of easy stomping/mauling/eating/whatever range, anyway. She might be confident but she wasn't stupid enough to not give herself enough room to get away on the off chance it proved hostile. "Hiya", she greeted the huge creature cheerfully. Certainly more cheerfully than most would when faced with a colossal dragon, at least.
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"Huh?" the monochromatic dragon responded with a puzzled look at Adam's words, and with a tone that fairly quickly identified it as a dragoness, regarding him with a mixture of caution and confusion, "Why...would I...?"
She gave a brief glance down to Zuzana, who hadn't even moved, though had to be aware of what was standing behind her, "Miss Sarovenkova...am I missing something?"
"He is human." the Nadpráporèík replied with a casual glance back at the Tornado, "All there is to it."
This gave the dragoness a frown, namely the 'oh ha ha, very funny' sort, but before she could actually say so, something in the forest drew her attention, head turning to look scrutinizing in the direction of a certain unknown two people. But before she could act on that in turn, the Kheldian woman entered the clearing as well, instantly consuming her full attention.
"Pax!" the Tornado's face lit up with excitement, and she sprang forward almost instantly. She shoved her nose into the woman's arms with a big smile in fond greeting, tail awag, apparently expecting a hug in return, "It's been forever! Where've you been? How've you been? Find anything cool? Weird? Gross?"
Zuzana just rolled her eyes. Figured she'd have a human as a friend. No, this she didn't want any part of. Good thing there seemed to be something else worth giving focus to - namely what the dragoness had looked toward before seeing Paxtera.
Said two presently still unknown individuals weren't alone either, for as the man growled to the woman, accosting her with the blade of his axe, a certain machine chose to reveal its presence. Dropping its optic cloak, a drone that somewhat resembled a Steel Valkyre became visible as it hovered in just over a meter from the scene. The likeness naturally wasn't great, this machine being only about half the size of that Vandal had designed for the 5th Column, and it also looked a great deal more modern, but that Cylon-esque central red 'eye' opon its visor gave good indication it wasn't happy with what it saw here.
Indeed, the brief increase in engine output (and its accompanying rise and descent), very much sounded angry, even to those with very little imagination...
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"Pax!" the Tornado's face lit up with excitement, and she sprang forward almost instantly. She shoved her nose into the woman's arms with a big smile in fond greeting, tail awag, apparently expecting a hug in return, "It's been forever! Where've you been? How've you been? Find anything cool? Weird? Gross?"
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She'd probably be rather disappointed then, as Pax did no such thing. Instead, the Kheldian developed a somewhat perplexed expression, tilting her head to one side as she tried to work out where (and when) this dragon knew her from. As well as if it'd happened for her yet. "Umm.... do we know you?", she asked, obviously confused.
Looking closer, she noted the dragon's distinctive colour scheme - which she'd seen before. "Wait. Sarah, right? Man, it has been forever. Weren't you smaller, last time we saw you?"
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Indeed, the brief increase in engine output (and its accompanying rise and descent), very much sounded angry, even to those with very little imagination...
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The man's eyes flicked to the hovering machine, but his glaring expression didn't shift an inch. If the thing was indeed reacting to the girl's position, then it was doubtful it would attack outright. He was close enough to her that any attack could prove as fatal to her as to him.
And if it WASN'T reacting on her behalf.... well, he wasn't out to get the chick killed, but it'd hardly be HIS fault. Besides, he was quite a bit faster than his large frame suggested. And he didn't die easy.
"Mh?" the Tornado raised her head a bit once more, regarding Pax thoughtfully for a moment until realization came to her, "Oh! Right! Yeah, I was. I guess you could call it a kind of transformation magic. Just about everyone on the island can do this, so it's easy to forget. Sorry."
Meanwhile, the drone retracted a pair of panels in its wings' leading edges, bringing to light the barrels of energy-based weapons. True, due to the machine's small size, they weren't exactly very frightening to look at, but the 'leave her alone' message still came across with more than due clarity...
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"Hmm friends with a Dragon that could come in handy. Well maybe I can let the sleeping beauties wake up and... um Sarah is it? Well perhaps Lady Sarah can you scare these pests away?"
He fished into his pockets and pulled out another leave and popped it into his mouth. As the flavor coated his tongue he started humming then he couldn't help but sing.
"A dragon has come to our village today.
We've asked him to leave, but he won't go away.
Now he's talked to our king and they worked out a deal.
No homes will he burn and no crops will he steal. "
"Now there is but one catch, we dislike it a bunch.
Twice a year he invites him a virgin to lunch.
Well, we've no other choice, so the deal we'll respect.
But we can't help but wonder and pause to reflect."
"Do virgins taste better than those who are not?
Are they salty, or sweeter, more juicy or what?
Do you savor them slowly? Gulp them down on the spot?
Do virgins taste better than those who are not?"
"Now we'd like to be shed you, and many have tried.
But no one can get through your thick scaly hide.
We hope that some day, some brave knight will come by.
'Cause we can't wait around 'til you're too fat to fly."
"Now you have such good taste in your women for sure,
They always are pretty, they always are pure.
But your notion of dining, it makes us all flinch,
For your favorite entree is barbecued wench."
"Now we've found a solution, it works out so neat,
If you insist on nothing but virgins to eat.
No more will our number ever grow small,
We'll simply make sure there's no virgins at all!"
After the song was finished he made sweeping bow.
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"Hmm. Yes, the mysterious Island we still haven't managed to find", Pax replied, apparently considering that enough explanation for the dragon's rather different appearance from the last time they saw each other. Of course, with the Kheldian being a shapeshifter herself, it probably was in her mind at least. "Anyway, what brings you here? Just having fun playing the part of the giant monster everyone's terrified of?", she went on.
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"Oh man, I'm so sorry." Sarah almost exclaimed, taking the remarks as that she was in fact scaring everyone; something she really hadn't wanted to do, made clear by the worried expression on her face, "I didn't mean to. Hold on."
With a shimmer of pale blue, the Tornado shrank, assuming again the bipedal form in which Paxtera had first encountered her. Forefeet became hands, three claws five fingers, the like changing hind feet into plantigrade arches with five visibly developed toes each - or at least they would've been were it not for the sturdy-looking, slate-gray work boots that had appeared around those feet.
The rest of her garb had returned as well, her navy-blue jeans much the same as those form before. The black, sleeveless crop top was quite a difference though, as was the open denim jacket, the hue of which took that of her pants merged with a flat gray. Curiously enough, the scales of her hide had taken on such a fine nature that they'd gone practically invisible, and while a bellybutton was still far from existent, her skin now certainly bore great resemblance to that of a human.
The wings she now folded against her back, however, still very much showed just how much she wasn't, their relocation duly necessary for the large blue bag now between them. It resembled some demonic cross of golf and travel bag, and looked like it contained some manner of monolith - apart from whatever was in that multitude of bulging side pockets, of course.
"Better?" she queried with a smile, adjusting the strap across her front that held the monstrous thing in place, "And I'm working on my term project. I've got-"
She stopped as the elfin bard began to sing, having found his initial hum melodious and welcome, but when he started adding words, her lips became horizontal, her eyes quite wide. She just stood there in motionless disbelief, stiff as a brick until he'd come to and end.
"Oh yeah, thanks, that's polite." she almost growled at him upon the man taking his bow, "I'm sorry if I scared you, but that's no reason for insults like that, you racist little Vulcan creep. Honestly, the nerve of some people."
Zuzana couldn't help but chuckle...
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"Oh please forgive me for my choice of song. I do not make up the lines they were passed down from mentor to student for so long no one remembers who did came up with them first. However if you allow I can sing the next part the Dragon's Retort a response from the very dragon in the story."
He makes another bow. "Thought I do think the song insults Humans more then Dragons. A mighty carnivore is a meat eater after all and the Dragon was respectful to the humans in making a Deal in the first place. The Men however came out as being lazy and horny brutes."
Adam just watched in awe as the group seemed to get along with one another so well, all except for the bard, and the dragon. Which for the most part didn't look like a dragon anymore.
"Now I'm confused. Are you a two legged chick, or are you a dragon? You can't just keep on changing like that and not tell which one you really are. My poor little mind just can't take all the pressure." Adam started then he turned to the bard.
"Now what kinda leaf are you eating to break out in song and dance like that? I think I might need some. Especially with all these new weird people I keep running into. Not that they aren't beautiful to look at. I just don't think I can take all this outragosousness at once." He said jokingly.
The figure in the tree sighed in frustration at the man who believed he had her taken hostage. Her first thought was to confront him, but then she remembered trying to keep her cover for as long as possible.
"I don't have to answer to you, or anyone here for that matter." Her soft voice ringing in his ears was the only evidence that she'd ever been standing there with him to begin with. He could only guess that maybe she'd used some form of teleportation to escape his grasp. Which meant she must still be around the area somewhere.
Which was indeed right. The robbed woman had no intentions of leaving her post. Not when there was so much that rode on her being there.
"I'd prefer you don't." Sarah retorted to the bard, placated but still perturbed - in a saddened manner, no less, "It's stereotype myths like that that make people so hostile toward us. And they hurt too."
"But okay, I'll take your apology." she agreed with a nod, "Just...don't do it again, okay? Story or not, eating sentient beings is monstrous, and it doesn't feel good to get called a monster."
Her smile had made a bit of a return by now, and it grew a little further with her retort toward Adam, telling the man gently as she walked toward him, "Okay then, let me make it easy on you. Yeah, I'm a dragon. Tornado, to be specific. Doesn't matter how I look, I'm still me either way. But thanks for the compliment."
"Sarah Jovi, from Earth." she reached out a hand for him to shake, "You?"
"Annoying." Zuzana remarked, raising an eyebrow as the woman by the man and the drone vanished, the telescopic sight of her eye implant pulling the distant scene quite close indeed. One of the Tsaiv's eyebrows rose, the Nadpráporèík not sure what to make of it all.
On one hand, it could've warranted concern...but on the other, it could've been completely unrelated, and she'd already gotten sidetracked here. Doing so again would just drag things out longer, and this loyalty to her duty would not let her do. Besides, the accosted woman had gotten away, ergo the presumed bandit with the axe no longer had a victim that needed saving - and if he came for them next, she could always pick the thread back up then. For now, it was not important.
The hovering machine by the axe-wielding stranger seemed to think the same, disengaging and returning to standard recon mode. Its weapon ports closed up, flaps pulled in, and the 'eye' reverted to its normal, soft-blue luminance before the whole thing cloaked once more and began to hover off toward the canopy above...
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"I don't have to answer to you, or anyone here for that matter."
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"Cowards," the man growled irritably as the girl and robot ran away. He'd dealt with these kinda people before; lurking about, spying on others who actually had the means to act. Buncha scheming drama queens as far as he was concerned.
It didn't sound as if the dragon was attacking anyone, so he figured it must have been docile. Shouldering the large axe once more, he stalked off through the woods toward the sound of conversation.
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"Now what kinda leaf are you eating to break out in song and dance like that? I think I might need some. Especially with all these new weird people I keep running into. Not that they aren't beautiful to look at. I just don't think I can take all this outragosousness at once." He said jokingly.
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He reached into his pocket and pulled out a leaf. "it's called a Kalana leaf thought the singing and dancing is my own nature they do mellow a person abit."
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"But okay, I'll take your apology." she agreed with a nod, "Just...don't do it again, okay? Story or not, eating sentient beings is monstrous, and it doesn't feel good to get called a monster."
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He makes abow then "Thanks you fair and Noble Sarah. Now I think we had enough of these thugs time to depart with them. Creatively of course." With that he starts another one of the Songspells and the thugs swayed to the tempo once the melody was in there heads they all opened there eyes but they looked confused and drugged.
"Listen up you gave Adam a good thrashing but he had no money on him. You were ready to kill him but it dawned on all of you that tending to his body would stop you from collecting your tolls from others so laughing at him you will leave thinking your the victor!" Once that was said he gave a loud clap and the men woke up.
The laughed and tossed insults as they walked away compleatly ignoring everyone lost in the spell till they got home and simply forget all that happened.
"Ah now speaking of stories. I have a bad feeling some higherpower is pulling strings around here. Like Adam said all this outragosousness at once seems more odd to be by chance."
Pax smiled slightly as Sarah reverted to the form she remembered from the last time the two had met. "There, that's a little more familiar. Not to mention far smaller, we never were fond of being towered over."
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"I'm sorry if I scared you, but that's no reason for insults like that, you racist little Vulcan creep. Honestly, the nerve of some people."
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"Yeah, songs are nice and all but a word of advice from people who learned it the hard way - a few times over, even. Take half a second to think before opening your mouth, it'll save you a lot of trouble in the long run." The Kheldian turned back to Sarah. "And for the record, he's not a Vulcan. He's an Elf. Though admittedly, depending on the specific example of either they do sometimes tend to be interchangable almost."
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"Ah now speaking of stories. I have a bad feeling some higherpower is pulling strings around here. Like Adam said all this outragosousness at once seems more odd to be by chance."
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"What, superpowered aliens aren't high enough for you?", Pax asked with a laugh, gesturing to herself and Sarah. Plus, with this world's apparent level of technology, that gun the Tsaiv was carrying probably qualified as such too.
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"Oh, you are a dragon then. That's too bad. I was hoping you weren't. You are much cuter that way." Adam tells the dragon, then he turns back to the bard.
"Thanks, I think I'll save this for later. I think I might need it more then than I do now. By the way, I don't think I caught your name. Don't take it personally if you've already told me. I've always paid more attention to the ladies than the men. It's in my nature." Adam took the leaf and placed in in a fanny pack like pouch around his hip.
The figure who'd been hiding in the trees made a huff about being called a coward. After all, what did he know about her line of work. Other than what he'd just decided to assume?
Still fumming from such a comment, She did a little stomp on the branch she was standing on, but when she did her boot got caught in a mangle of branches, and vines.
In an attempt to wench her foot free, she gives her foot a few good yanks. However, instead of freeing herself, she caused herself to loose her own balance, and she topples out of the tree with a yelp, her foot still caught in the tree.
She was now in plain sight for all to see. Her robes hanging backwards in her face tossing back and forth as she fruitlessly tried to free herself. Exposing her smooth, pale, silver white legs, and a bushy red tipped fox tail that lashed back and forth wildly clearly displaying to those of keen eyes that she was going though a great deal of pain. For those who weren't familiar with what it means for an animal to wag their tail in such a way, the whinning and whimmpering were enough of a clue to let them know she wasn't having a good time.
Adam noticed her flailing about in the corner of his eye, and the sight of her legs caught his eye quicker than anything else would have.
"Wow, now that's a sexy set of legs if I've ever seen one." He spouted out not making any attempt to help her. Aparently he was too absorbed in admiring her legs at the moment.
"Not so quick on yer feet now, are ya?"
A large axe thudded into the vines near the girl's caught foot, leaving the appendage to slip free of it's bindings. His dark mood even seemed to lift a bit as he grinned wryly down at the frail. After all, he had to admit; that was dang funny.
And some commotion nearby wasn't all the stranger heard. From above the thick leaves of the forest canopy sounded a noise that could've best been described as a sail catching wind; a tarp as it thrust a wave into air. A second noise, or rather a series of them, followed stante pede, reminiscent of jet engines, and yet so much quieter than any modern aircraft currently achieved.
A rustle in the woodwork followed, but it sounded rather distant, or at the very least further away than the commotion that had initially caught the stranger's attention. Still, it was decidedly audible, easily heard even from the site of the aforementioned tumult.
But if Zuzana hard it, she certainly didn't seem to care, her course still headed straight for the woods, thoughts circling more about the perceived absurdity behind her. It was just...sure, the Esertosian people consisted of no less than seven different species, most of which were genetically compatible...but the idea of a human was so...augh!
"So sing again." the Nadpráporèík stopped and huffed back, believing this to be a most obvious solution. As far as she knew, nothing was preventing the bard from doing so once the attackers woke up. This and the power the dual woman gave off convinced the Tsaiv decently that these people really didn't need help dealing with a few thugs.
Thus she set her mind back on her mission, and unless someone stopped her would no doubt be heading into this supposedly danger-fraught wooded vale...
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