into the woods

[against_descent]

Who; Cassandra Tyra and Uldren Sov
What; Exploration!
Where; Outside of the city, checking out the forest.
When; Time is the pyre on which we burn
Warnings; They've both got foul mouths...



The Euthanatos was waiting.

At least that was something she was good at; predators usually were. Not that it was specifically prey she was waiting for. But he'd be along eventually, she knew. With the certainty of Fate.

Cassandra snorted to herself a little, not bothering to hide her amusement. It turned into even more of a grin as the Awoken male stepped out of the city. She picked up the bag she held, and slung it over her shoulder.

"Took you long enough," she teased. Likely he wouldn't get her sense of humor, but it's equally likely that she didn't care.

For Uldren's part, his upper lip lifted as if he'd smelled something foul, orange-gold eyes narrowing as if to ask the Euthanatos what in the hells she was doing there--not that he said a word. He didn't need to, really. Cassandra just smiled anyway--a Cheshire smile, to be sure, but a smile nonetheless.

"I'm coming with you," she announced. He rolled his eyes, heaved an obvious sigh, and turned to head towards the woods, still without a word. Cass just fell in not far behind him. At least she wasn't cheerful enough to hum a tune as they walked deeper into the shadowed forest...

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[forsakenprince]

Uldren had a way to understand her humor, though it was likely true that the two of them understood the joke under different contexts. He just was more annoyed that she was here than he was amused by her joke. It was also equally likely that the man wouldn't know what a joke was if it punched him in the nose.

While it hadn't even occurred to him that she might hum a tune while they walk, he is glad, at least, that she was currently content with leaving him be as they walked. They walked for a while in the forest, both of them taking in the sights and sounds of it all. The usual forest sounds were abound: those of life, the sounds of plants moving, insects. Normal forest noises. Everything seemed to be perfectly normal.

Until it wasn't. He hesitated and stopped for a moment, looking over a tree. He didn't stay there long enough to say anything, but his expression suggested something wasn't quite right. He pressed on and head, and it wasn't long before he stopped again. He examined something for a while, then looked to Cass.

"Does that look familiar to you?" He pointed to a small stack of rocks that they had definitely passed by some time ago.

[against_descent]

The Euthanatos narrowed her eyes. She hadn't noticed it at first, but yes, subconsciously, Cass knew they'd definitely passed that stack of rocks before. It stuck out, because it had, indeed, been a stack, not just a scattering.

Lips pursed, she nodded. "We did, yes." Pausing. "Probably forty-five minutes ago, as I reckon the sun. Are we going in circles?"

She hadn't thought so, but this was an unfamiliar forest--not that everything here wasn't somewhat unfamiliar, in truth, but this wasn't like the other forests she'd been in back home. It tasted, mentally, a bit more like her mother's Bone Grove. Just something familiar in the way it acted. But that wasn't possible, so Cassandra brushed it off.

"Maybe we ought to try a different direction, next time we find a fork?" Though gods knew she'd be annoyed if they passed by that stack again...