The Warped (2nd Party)

[Goblin Cat 😸]

Mortis mumbled lowly as Moon nudged her. She had apparently succumbed to sleep, but she could tell by how she felt that it wasn't enough. She yawned and stretched, wondering what the dragon wanted until she heard the caravan. "Damnit." She muttered. "Can't get a freaking break." She scooped up her things as she stood, attempting to help Moon wake the others. As she woke them up, she whispered the word, "Caravan," then drew her finger to her mouth. It was still somewhat dark out, she only hoped they could use it to their advantage. She silently prayed that the caravan wasn't that of the feline's, because then it wouldn't matter if it was dark or not.

[Srgntcuddles]

Constance awoke from her sleep she had drifted into late last night. She didn't do very good at standing guard, but she was tired. She heard the carriages making her think of the whole ordeal the day before. She somewhat lost her nerve again. The thought crossed her mind about which direction the caravan went, from what she could remember it was to the town they came from. Her heart sank when she came to the conclusion something bad happened to those nice people. "I hope that's not the case...Please don't let them have been hurt. They were nice to us. But the guards...I hope they were able to take care of themselves..." she thought wrapping her arms around her legs holding them to her chest.

[Ares the Ram]

Macid dreamed he was back in the library. He was sitting at the front desk with the head librarian when a robed man came and dropped off a package. He opened the package to find the heads of Max, Mortis and Constance staring back at him. He dropped the box screaming as he fell down a black hole landing on his back. He awoke on the ground as Moon was scambling to wake everyone. As he tried to get his bearings, Mortis came over and whispered caravan to him. His expression went flat as he scrambled to get up and hide. He grabbed his bag and was about to climb the tree when he saw the place that Max had cut the bark from.  "Crap. They'll see that. Gotta find another place to hide quick."

[serpington]

max layed there asleep, his dreams just blank sections of darkness as usuall. when mortis woke him up and whispered "caravan" to him he started to sit up. still half asleep he draged his things carefully over to the bushes he had hid in earlier and hid them. he climbed the nearest tree that looked like it could both hold and hide him and layed down in a fork between the tree trunk and one of the higher branches and started to drift back to sleep while looking down at the clearing the grup had slept in. "damn early mornings....." was all he said as he proped his head up in his hands trying to not fall asleep, knowing that with his luck he'd fall out off the tree when the caravan was rolling past.

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Moon hid in the bushes, too, trying to keep her wings from twitching, that they would show. The carriages finally got to their area, and kept rolling slowly, the commander yelling out orders, still, "Stay sharp, men! They left Karson only yesterday! They cannot have gone too far! At the quickest on foot, they would be hiding out in Loriad, unless they managed to steal horses or a carriage! We'll continue on north and scan the areas!" The caravan finally passed where they were hiding, but Moon's anger caused her wings to twitch enough to make one of the bush branches shake. A lone soldier that was watching the rear, perked his ears and turned. He signaled for another to follow him, and the two of them drew their swords, inching closer to where they were all hiding. As they got almost into the brush, a voice came from the distance, "What in blazes are you knaves doing!? Get a move on!" The two men sheathed their swords and ran back up towards the caravan.

[Goblin Cat 😸]

As Mortis hid in the brush, her stomach was in knots as the two soldiers went back to look. She held her breath until they turned away. When they got to a reasonable distance, she exhaled in relief. "God they're moving fast." she whispered to herself. "We are so screwed. How can we compete with that? And again, I wonder what will tip them off on us? I bet the villagers told them what we look like if they know what direction we're headed in." Mortis crossed her arms and buried her face into them tiredly. She was lying on her stomach in the brush. Eventually, she convinced herself to get up. She looked to Moon as she waited for the others to come down. "Where do we go now? Do we keep going North?"

[Srgntcuddles]

When the two soldiers came to investigate the noise Moon had made she positioned herself to jump off onto one of them. She wasn't about to  let the hurt her. Though when they left she took a deep breath and exhaled in relief. She was glad she didn't have to kill someone, she would have likely caused more trouble for everyone than any good. Either way her heart was racing, the adrenaline coursing through her body had woke her up plenty. When they left she jumped down and put her Dirk back under her belt not realizing she had even taken it out. "We have to keep going North. We have nowhere else to go."

[Ares the Ram]

Panicking, Macid ducked behind the same bush the others were in and covered his head with his hands, hoping they wouldn't see him. When Moon shook the bush, his heart leapt up into his throat as he shook in fear. Luckily, they did not fully investigate and left. When the others got up after they had left, he did the same. He rummaged in his bag and ate what was left of his ham and bread. He didn't really want to talk at the moment so after he was finished eating, he checked his book and waited for everyone else to move.

[serpington]

max strugled to stay awake as the slodiers aproached the others underneath him, "if they spot the others we're screwed, i'm in neather a position nor a state to be any help......" once the two soldiers left he relxaxed a little, and that was enough. he began to drift off to sleep again almost instantly. "no, gotta....*yawn*..stay awake" he tryed to climb out of the tree and almost made it down, reaching the last branch, a good two meters off the ground at that point, and sliped, landing in a small patch of bushes near the others........almost instantly falling back to sleep once he hit the ground.

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Moon whimpered when Mortis looked at her, not knowing if she was going to be scolded or not for almost getting the group into another skirmish. She retreated behind Constance, but jumped when Max fell out of the tree and into the bushes. She quickly turned around and saw him sleeping there. She nearly puffed her cheeks at the sight, and temporarily forgot about her fear of being scolded and went over to the sleeping monitor and bit him in the leg to wake him up.

[Goblin Cat 😸]

Mortis looked at Moon quizzically when she hid behind Constance. She didn't understand why she was suddenly fearful of her... The chameleon merely ignored when Max fell out of the tree. Mortis crossed her arms and looked to Constance. "They know we're headed North. If we head this way, we're gonna get caught. Them combing by us twice in one day should be evidence enough of that. I don't know if I can take having to deal with dodging patrolmen that often." She rubbed her head and sighed, frustrated. "We need to do something to go off of their trail. Maybe we can head a little out of our way, then North later."

[Srgntcuddles]

Constance looked at Moon when she scrambled behind her. "Hey, hey. What's wrong, Moon?" she asked looking at her then to Mortis. "Did she scare you? There's nothin-" Just then Max fell from the tree. "Eep!" she blurted out. The fall had startled her enough to make her jump. She didn't know Max would have been able to climb in his condition. At the same time she didn't blame him given the circumstances. When Moon bit Max she walked over to them. "Max, you okay? What are you doing climbing trees in your condition??" she asked in a sort of parent-like tone, crossing her arms. When Mortis spoke she turned back to her somewhat casually. "Then what do you think? What could we possibly do? It's not like we have anything we can distract such a large amount of people with. We need to get to a town, we have no equipment to live off of. We couldn't even start a fire. I'm still covered in blood, so we need clothes. Not to mention more edible food. Or at least be able to get a fire started. I mean...We can hunt...I can use my wolf to help. And...I don't know..." she said calmly until the end. She lost her mojo feeling list she was being bossy.

[Ares the Ram]

Macid watched as Constance scolded Max and talked about how they couldn't survive out here without help. "She has a point, but so does Mortis. If they came from the last town, then the villagers would have tipped them off so we can't trust them, but we can't survive for much longer without someone's help." He groaned as he massaged his temples. He was getting a headache just thinking about it all. "Is there another town nearby? Maybe we can go to a different one instead of the one that cat lady went to?" He remembered he wrote down the list of names Filadius gave him and decided to check on them. Opening his book, he found the pages to be empty. With a heavy sigh, he closed the book and put it back in his bag. "Great. Just great." He rubbed his arms where his scars were, thinking about how he felt before and comparing it to now.

[serpington]

max groaned awake slightly, sudenly feeling the bite that had woken him. he quickly sat up to see what it was and saw moon before falling back into his laying position with a head spin. after a few seconds he looked up and saw constance standing over him "Max, you okay? What are you doing climbing trees in your condition??" he heard her scolding at him and sighed droping his head into the leaves. "i'm soo not a morning person....." he groaned again sitting up slowly, feeling his back crack a few times at he streached. he rubbed his head and looked down at his sore leg. "did she bite me?"

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

As a response, Moon bit Max in the leg again, but a little harder so it would jolt him up. Around the same time when they were wondering what to do, Filadius' image came back up, "Perhaps I can be of assistance. However, it will require risk. The next town, Loriad, is the only town you're going to see for days. So you'll have no choice but to stop there for supplies. But I have a plan to help you all, but you will have to listen closely to my instructions, because it's going to require a lot of magic for this."