The Warped (2nd Party)

[Goblin Cat 😸]

When the tree shook a bit, she looked down from the tree, hearing Moon squeak. I guess I should come down. I just hope Filadus is gone when I do. He should be, it's not like he stays around us for long with out conveniently running out of magic. she thought dryly as she began to descend from her limb. When she got down, she went to the others, seeing that there was already a start on a fire. "Settling for camp seems like a good idea. I don't know how long we're going to last in a town." she mumbled. "The soldiers in the caravan were heading to the town we came from, and that cat girl was heading to the town we're probably going to... Constance, you need to check the map to see. I believe she said it was called... Lama.. Lamasari? I don't know if the place is swarmed with soldiers or not, but we do know that at the very least it's going to be her and her two soldiers, plus whoever is driving the carriage. She might be meeting up with the Jackson guy with the shotgun. Again, it's just speculation, but we should probably be prepared to avoid town for now." She felt a little regretful coming down the trees and barking orders out, but she had to make sure everyone was on the same page. Communication was key when it came to keeping a group together. They had better chances if they stuck together now. She wanted to say something to comfort them all since she knew they were all taking things hard, especially Constance and Macid, but she didn't know what to say. She was never good at making people feel better because she was always blunt and never really sugar coated things. Instead of thinking on it too much more, she plopped down in front of the sticks and leaves for the fire. "Now, does anyone know how to light this thing? I don't suppose any of you smoked and have a lighter on hand, do you?" She eyed they them all as if to judge if they were smokers or not.

[Srgntcuddles]

Constance felt defeated when her idea of moving was basically rejected. She didn't like how far they got the whole day. Sitting down she slipped the map from her pocket, opened it and set it out in front of herself. She looked for "Lamasari" on the map around the general area where they were. "It's not here...Hmm..." After not finding it she searched the rest of the map eventually finding it. "Found it. Geez that's far..." she thought. "I think this is it..." she said in a fairly flat tone. She had her finger pointed to it on the map, resting her chin on the palm of her other hand. Constance had ideas she wanted to say but felt intimidated now, deciding to keep them to herself. She figured they wouldn't be any help anyway.

[Ares the Ram]

Macid put Anon back in his bag as he crawled over to where the fire was being made. "I've never actually done it, but I've read how to start a fire by spinning a stick." Setting his bag aside, he looked through the pile to find a nice sized stick to start with. Finding one, he stuck it in the pile and began to rub it between his paws. After a while, he noticed he wasn't getting anywhere and examined his set up. "Hmm, I think I need a flat piece of wood to lay it on. Like a piece of bark." He looked at the tree and saw that it was in fine health so he couldn't just rip a piece off. "Max? Could you cut off a piece of bark for me please?"

[serpington]

max smiled drawing the second largest section of ramsey and running it down a section of the bark.  a few seconds later he plled off the section he had been cutting loose. he gave the peice (it was a good foot wide and about six inches long) to macid and moved to behind the others, watching the others actions before looking at the map with constance. "sorry if i kindof shot down your idea. it's just it's been a long day, and now knowing what we're up against. we're in no condition to be openly traveling while tired." after getting a good look at where they were on the map he got back up and tended to his thinks, and his side, checking that they and the buffalo were ready to go at a moments notice. he already know what he was going to do. but he knew the others wouldnt like it.

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Moon made a sad face when Macid failed to start the fire and went up beside him, taking a deep breath and blew hard, making a bigger cloud of smoke that she did before. She coughed hard in her little high-pitched voice, lifting off the ground by flapping her little wings. Moon landed a ways away from the smoke cloud and sat on her rump, depressed and whimpering. She was not happy that she couldn't contribute.

[Goblin Cat 😸]

"Won't the bark be too live to--" Mortis stopped and stared blankly at the pile, drawing her knees up to her chin and hugging them. It was then that she realized she was always the person in the group being critical of everything. She watched Moon's attempt to light the fire, but didn't follow Moon for fear of stepping on Constance's toes. After all, she was the animal expert. Mortis merely sighed, finding her mind still rehashing all of the events that had happened so far. She felt depressed again. Attempting to tune out how she felt, she continued to stare at the leaves. She didn't want to take any action, she figured it was time for the others to take their own actions. As much as she wanted to step up the the plate of "being the leader" she also wanted to see what the others felt or had to say. In a sense, she just wanted to observe and think.

[Srgntcuddles]

Constance left a stone where she was pointing and stood up and went towards Moon. Kneeling down next to her she patted her on the head. "You did your best, and it's appreciated. Don't give up, you'll get there eventually." she said trying to console her. After that she walked away, she wanted to gather her thoughts and something more dry to aid in the making of the fire. After what seemed to be several minutes of walking she came across a dead tree that had fallen over. It still had several of it's branches on it, however, which she had an idea for. She helped the monkey off her shoulder and set him on the ground. "Okay, little guy. I want you to go find some fruit or something. Whatever you can. Okay? Now go." she said scooting him along. The monkey took to the trees and disappeared. Constance looked at the branches on the tree and drew Lych from her belt. "Lets see..." She messed around with the position of the dirk in her hand, trying to make it comfortable. She stuck with it pointing up and swung it around in the air a little. Afterward she swung at a few thin branches slicing them off. It made her feel good so she tried a slightly thicker branch. However it didn't go all the way through, she wasn't strong enough to cut it completely. She stopped to gather some dried leaves and such, setting them off to the side. After that she went back to her little combat practice session. She was planning on doing until her monkey returned.

[Ares the Ram]

"Thank you." Macid took the bark and set it on the ground, placing his pile of leaves and branches on top of it. He continued to rub the stick into the pile and answered Mortis' question without looking up. "A live tree will have moisture making a fire harder yes, but not impossible. Besides, unless there's a dead tree you know of or someone's got some flint and tinder I don't see much of another option." Macid had been sniffling the entire time since he came down from the tree, his hands shaking even as he worked the stick. He wanted to curl up in a ball and cry his eyes out like when he did for his parents, but he knew he was their best bet for a fire right now and pushed those feelings aside. After several minutes, he looked at the piece of bark to see if he had made any progress. The indentation where the stick had been twisting into had a slightly darkened hue to it. It was working. He went back to spinning the stick, determined to make the group a fire before nightfall.

[serpington]

max looded around once he had finished gathering his things. mortis was just sitting there watching over the others and himself, macid was still working on the fire, but he still sounded upset, moon looked depresed and constance and her monkey had wondered off. he rose to his feet calmly and walked over to macid. "want me to take over? just tell me what need's to be done and i'll call you when something happens." he said calmly sitting down across from macid and looking at him over the yet to be fire. he looked over at moon for a second nd had an idea. "ha macid, doesn't blowing air on the embers help make fire? if it does we could call moon over and she could use her wings. then it should be easier to get the fire started. shouldn't it?"

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

The monkey searched around for quite a while past sunset. It followed scents it left behind to find its way back to Constance. The monkey dropped off a few fruits that it found, but it wasn't much. Moon sighed, feeling a little better with Constance's consoling. From the looks of it, they wouldn't be getting fire or light that night, so she made sure she went over to where most of the group was, and laid down. She sighed as she snuggled up against Macid, since he was the furriest one in the group that was there at the moment.

[Goblin Cat 😸]

Mortis decided to stay with the group to sleep. She put her bag over her shoulder and crossed her arms over it, leaning on the tree to sleep. However after a few moments, she felt as if her mind was too caught up in thinking to sleep. She didn't really say much to the others past watching them, as if to deduce what kind of people they were. She wondered what they all must have been thinking about the old man, also she wondered if they were concerned about the other group. The chameleon, in all honesty, somewhat wished that they hadn't split, mainly because there was no offensive people aside from Max, and he was already injured. Plus, there was another chance that maybe the others knew how to make a fire or happen to smoke.

[Srgntcuddles]

Constance continued to practice with her blade until the monkey had returned. She wasn't aware of how dark it had gotten by the time he did return. She knelt down exhausted and looked at what the monkey had brought. She smiled and gave him a little pat on the head. "Good job, thank you." she said as gingerly as she could. It was hard since she was tired. "Alright, now do you think you can carry what I got? I'll take these things." The monkey nodded as if he understood and gathered a few sticks she had chopped up and some of the dead leaves and stuff. She grabbed the food and stood up and headed off back to the camp. She eventually found her way back using her feline eyes to aid her in seeing in the dark. She noticed them turning in for the night so she tried to stay quiet. Constance took note that there was no fire so she was kind sad. She left what she had gathered next to a tree. The monkey set it's stuff down and returned to Constance's shoulder. "I'll take guard duty tonight. Moon looks too comfortable with you, Macid and Max you should get what rest you can. You're still injured and need your rest if you want to heal up quick. I haven't been doing much so I'll be fine, if you're hungry...There is some fruit and berries right here by this tree. I probably wouldn't trust the berries...They might be poisonous." After speaking she went up a high tree to rest on a branch that overlooked the clearing they were in. She had to push herself to get up the tree, almost collapsing on the branch. She also tried to force herself to stay up but it wouldn't last long.

[Ares the Ram]

Macid checked his progress again. The black dust that was appearing on the bark was still there, while the stick was losing its form. He tossed the stick to the ground as Max asked him about lighting an ember. "It would if I had an ember to begin with. It's useless, there's no fire tonight." He rubbed his arms, as they were sore from all his stick rubbing. He was in a sour mood from not having been able to make a fire for everyone. When Moon came up and snuggled against him, he sighed as he scratched behind her ear. He made himself comfortable against Moon as Constance offered guard duty. He nodded and yawned as he dozed off to sleep against the dragon.

[serpington]

max sighed quietly, quickly following it with a loud yawn. "sounds good constance. wake me if you need me." he got up and layed down with his head resting on some of the buffalo skin and his feet proped up on his bag. he looked down and examined his side, the cast had cracked when he was helping macid, he pulled out the other half of his shirt and tied it around his waist like a belt. once his makeshift bandage was secured he pulled out the smallest section of ramsey and cut himself a small chunk of the raw meat and ate it sparingly.

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Moon awoke the next morning yawning, and stretched her wings. However, she ended up knocking Macid over, since her wings seemed to have grown overnight. Moon checked her wings and smiled, then checked the sky. It was morning twilight, and almost dawn. The sound of carriages and the caravan could be heard in the distance, and let out a low growl. She quickly went around the little camp, waking everyone up, hoping they won't make too much noise. The caravan was getting closer by the minute, and dangerously so.