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[noirant]

 Gracious, one might almost believe that we were playing hide-and-seek. 

[ Felix drawls. The words are carefully picked with a leisured scorn, but they don’t do much to hide his growing flush ... or the twigs and leaves tangled in his hair. A fat green caterpillar inches its way across a shoulder, and something chitters from out view.

The heavy trees of La Llorona droop dark over the little path behind him, their branches like so many grasping fingers. He can't be very far into the forest, but the way is overgrown, and the trail plainly disused. 

As far as Felix is concerned, it’s still the ninth month, and he’s still traveling to the Station with a troll and a god in tow. ] 

As my erstwhile traveling companions appear to have taken the maps, supplies, and horses along upon their game, I find myself tasked with troubling assistance from any amongst you with more familiar with —

[ A yelp, and the locket drops. A few moments later, a visibly more harried-looking Felix scowls back into view, his eyes shot wide. An enormous, hairy leg twitches feebly from the edge of the frame, trailing a hazy line of green smoke. ] 

— The forest, and its bug problems.


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[[ OTA for action, as well! ]]

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[noirant]

Evidently.

[ He's spent enough of his snarl on Sif and Vol'jin to calm a little now. Felix just sounds a bit deflated. He nudges the charred spider with a toe, grimacing as it twitches into a new spasm. ]

Though saints if I can work out how they managed it.

[ it's cool bruh he hasn't realized that either ]

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[enthraller]

Did you fall asleep? When did you last see them?

[automatic questions layered with an expression of uncertain concern. he's mostly just in it for the vaguely entertaining conversation anyway.]

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[noirant]

[ He tosses up a gloved hand: Who knows. ]

We camped some ways down that path, the night prior. But I remember waking, and --

[ Felix shakes his head into an irritable grimace. ]

-- The last that I remember, we were readying to leave. But upon walking back into the clearing, they were gone.

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[enthraller]

Did you have anything of value for them to take, or did you just annoy the wrong people?

[noirant]

[ "I've been robbed often enough to tell the difference," probably isn't the best thing to say to a vague ally -- least of all when he intends to keep certain facts to himself.

Still, the look he throws Sara is deadpan enough to suffice. ]

Plainly, a child-god and an upright, blue ollefant aren't the Drabwurld's best choice of traveling companions. I defer to your superior judgment in any such future matters.

[enthraller]

[it's a good thing he's gotten used to the strange folk that now populate this place, because otherwise that comment might have seriously derailed this conversation.]

I'd hardly say my judgement is superior. My last "traveling companion" stole my all my things and abandoned me in a dwarven city.

[seriously, fuck red. even if it hadn't been much of an inconvenience, still: fuck that guy.]

But at least that was civilization. I'm not sure I have any helpful advice for you, here.

[noirant]

[ baseball demons vs the outsider w/plague rats on home plate. batter up!!

That actually startles a laugh out of him, one which -- for all circumstance -- manages to sound more heartfelt than strained. The dubious fortune granted by thorough practice. ]

Better, I suppose, than to be alone in it. [ He waves a dismissive hand. ] By the look of things, we ought instead to travel together -- though I suppose I can't promise not to abandon you in favour of a library. I hope you weren't carrying anything irreplaceable?

[ It's an inquiry, more than it's a well-wish. ]

[enthraller]

Little more than clothing and some trinkets from the market, luckily. Irritating nonetheless, though -- I was stuck in the same outfit for days.

[And then he got some bloodstains on it too, but that was an unrelated incident.]

But if you're ever heading to or from Redgate, I may take you up on that. If nothing else, I'd appreciate some decent company.