Ghastly Woods We're taking over, jump the ship

RE: Jenessa, you’ve accidentally dug up the cache of a squirrel instead one of your own!

Now where had she put it? It was around here somewhere, her little cache of goodies she'd hidden away from prying eyes and noses. She didn't have anything particularly valuable or even edible, it was just a collection of things that had caught her eye, like sharp stones and smelly leaves. She knew it was around here somewhere, that she'd dug out a little hole near a tree that faced the base of the mountain, but which one? There were so many trees all tangled together, coiled and twisted like a hundred serpents. That was, in part, why she liked it in this forest so much, the sense of danger and secrecy, with a hundred or more places to hide and sneak.

With her nose to the floor, Jenny sniffed and snuffed till she noticed that the dirt just in front of her paws had recently been disturbed. Was this it? She hadn't visited her cache recently so...this meant that someone had dug it up, rummaged through it? She scowled as she pawed the dirt out of the way, they better not have taken that sharp tooth she had found, it was hers!

When all of the mud had been pushed aside Jenny paused and tipped her head to the side in obvious confusion. She'd found a hole full of nuts, this wasn't hers...Well, it was now.

He felt lost. Not physically, no no. Physically he was well aligned and didn't care much where he was. Emotionally though? Well, he might as well have fell down the mountain and conked his head. His son was still missing, he had lost hope (even though he didn't voice it), and he wanted something else besides this nomadic lifestyle.

Kerberos knew exactly what he wanted for once and yet he couldn't bring himself to get it.

The woods had beckoned him with their secrecy. He could hide here for a little bit before returning to Runi (@Inna). Although the dark form of a child pulled him closer. They could have been Orionis were it not for the obviously wrong details. The grey smudges and yellow eyes. None of it matched the description Runi had given him. Nor was this someone's son, this was someone's daughter.

What did you find? He asked as he approached from her front, his dark brow arching ever so slightly.

(This post was last modified: Sep 20, 2018, 05:09 PM by Kerberos.)

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Jenny looked up from the cache as her brows drew together at the stranger's question. Whilst it looked as though she had rolled in ash, it seemed like the man done the same, but with mud. She couldn't help but wonder his intent, was he asking because he wanted to take what was hers? Or was he simply curious?

"Nuts." She told him, kicking one his way so he could inspect it if he wanted.

She watched squirrels before as they gnawed and nibbled on them, high up in the trees that surrounded the tarn. Sometimes the squirrels dropped them and they thunked to the floor, for Jenny to sniff at and try to eat herself. She'd quickly realised that they weren't yummy, but that didn't mean she was just willing to give them away. Not all of them at least, not without something to make it worth her while.

"Got them all by myself." That was a lie, but he didn't need to know that.