Forest of Wonder

[Rayleonarde]

Valentine's ear twitched as the howl reached her, and continued to do so as she thought. She brought a paw up, tapping her chin gently. "We need to set up camp. And powdered silver. Wherever he is, he knows I'm here." Valentine sighed, swirled her paw, and a campfire appeared nearby. She reached into one of her many satchels, and tossed out a pawful of shining dust. The fire flared and turned a bright blue. "He'll stay away from the fire. Unless, of course, it's a full moon. It bolsters him, emboldens the beast within."




The raccoon, now only an hour out, howled again in that awful, beastly way. The sky began to darken, as the sun dipped below the trees.

[lightstone]

"well i gotta go to my den" Light said while running to his den and getting that satchel Valintine just used saying "for my family of course!"

[Rayleonarde]

Valentine's blade flashed out, cutting the satchel from Light's paw. The she-raccoon scooped up the bag, menacing Lightstone with her sword. "Where I'm from, theives lose paws. Try that again, and I'll send you to your family one...part...at a time."

[lightstone]

"I get it. i get it" light walked away and started thinking to start at the weapons

[Rayleonarde]

Valentine sheathed her blade. "I hate doing that, but I can't abide thieves." Sighing, the raccoon continued assembling her camp.

[Hunhow]

Zane went back and forth gathering supplies

[AceDavross]

The fox studied the hare before him for a moment more, then nodded. Noticing the setting sun, as well as the fire off to his left, he then moved away to collect some more wood for the night.

"Very well, sir," he said as he turned around, instantly beginning to rapidly scan the woods ahead of him for viable supplies, as well as possible threats. "If you're truly so sure, then I suppose I can find contentment in that." He paused for a moment then, as if he were pondering something.

"By the way..." he began again, turning a backwards glance to the group, then the hare he was speaking to, "the name is Ace."

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[Ara Av-Toa]

Meanwhile, the figure in the shadow went standing looking at what's happening. He decided to step out into the light of the campfire. A white tailed sea eagle could now clearly be seen.

[AceDavross]

Just as the newly-identified Ace went to leave for supplies, he spotted something else from the corner of his eye, and, upon turning, noted a Eagle approaching the group.

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[Ara Av-Toa]

(Eagle, Ace.)
The eagle didn't draw any weapon or speak. All it did was standing there, looking around. Its gaze crossed Ace' for an instant.

[AceDavross]

(My apologies. My glasses ate still at Heitz, so I'm still not quite all with it. Spellcheck doesn't help much either.)

Ace, having not previously been with the group and still not officially a member, merely nodding towards the newcomer, then finally turned back to the woods. Night was fast approaching, and there was much collecting that needed to be done.

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[Fuzzpaws]

The Wolf made the trip back to the nearest settlement.

I continued to retrace my padding, eventually ending up at the greasy little establishment where I had been bumped into by the fox thief, then realized my satchel was gone.

As I entered the proprietor looked up, then moved quickly to meet me, walking me towards the door to his apartment behind the shop.

"Fair Wolf, so glad you returned.. you left in a hurry and after you did we found your satchel under the fireside table near where you had rested. We would like you to retake possession of it, as the two furrs curious enough to try to open it seem to have turned ... um... dead... "

He looks around the shop nervously, then continued "neither were upstanding citizen's, and they will not be much missed, but I'd prefer not to be responsible for any more cleaning up." 

Having finished he stepped thru the curtain, and returned nearly immediately with a small tan leather pouch, my satchel..

"Would you kindly reattach it to my collar?  I need to go find a fox and apologize... I fear I made a hasty assumption."

With my satchel back in my possession I leave town at a lope, hoping to find the fox still with the group in the woods.

[AceDavross]

Ace was, for lack of any better descriptor, frustrated. All of the wood he'd found in the woods that he now carried piled upon his shoulder (he felt that twenty was plenty enough for now) was miraculously recently fallen, meaning that it would need to sit in the fire for some time before it actually began to burn. He only hoped not only that everyone was alright since his departure about a half hour ago, and that the mage might be able to dry out the wood he carried.

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[Serena Moon]

Getting surprised about the new commotion and seeing herself surrounded, the hare thought: 'Oh crap! Looks like the going is getting tough'. "Um well it appears that we have quite a crowd on our hands. This is more than I bargained for!"
The hare backed stepped slowly before dashing into the bushes and up into the trees away from the commotion.

[Exit Syko the Hare]

[AceDavross]

(What commotion? What happened?)

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