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Draconian

( @paganchick )

It was supposed to be a simple job.

There was an escaped slave and Yuuki had been hired to bring her back. No problem. Slavery was as natural as breathing where he was from and sometimes escaped slaves happened. No biggy. He was going to get paid and he even brought a gag to keep said slave from making too much noise or begging.

He always felt like an asshole when they begged.

Yuuki chewed on the inside of his cheek, this was the general location he'd followed the tracks to. A few days of wandering around and he felt like he was getting close. There was little information, and he did his best to not look like exactly what he was doing. So, feeling like he was close, with the sun going down he sighed, dropping his pack beside a larger tree and set up his small camp. No tent was made, but he made himself comfortable leaning against the tree once he'd started the fire.

Now he had to figure how to catch her. Part of him was hoping against all hope that the smell of (meager) food and the warmth of fire would draw her in, he knew she was around here somewhere.

Slowly, he left his eyes drift closed, listening to the sound of nature and the crackling of the fire.

paganchick

Xana indeed, was close. She knew the man had been tracking her. After all, this wasn't the first time she had escaped. Actually, she was rather a Houdini. Of course when you know if you don't escape you are going to slowly die, you figure out how to escape.

She knew better than to venture close to him. She was hungry, but her freedom was worth much more than the food he had. She was fed better scraps at her captors home actually. This was going to be played out like a delicate chess game, one where her life hung in the balance. She let out a slow sigh. Of course, she would never just be left in peace.

A grin curl across Xana's face. She couldn't deny her nature and naturally Faeries were tricksters, she was no different.

Xana looked around, checking her cover and all available escape routes. The man hunting her was a very big man. She knew that if he got his hands on her she was as good as done for. She sat in a tree, her feet dangling from the branch. She knew if it really came down to it she could fly, she would just have to hope he didn't have anything to throw at her.

The temptation of the resting man began to grow to much for her, she had to do something. She reached her hand out, a faint green glow began to admit from her palm. Slowly vines began to grow across the forest floor. She smiled as she mentally pictured the man with his feet tied together with the vines, then the man, who stood like a tower, falling. It was hard to restrain her giggles at the mental image. 

Draconian

Whoooa.


Yuuki's eyes snapped open when he felt something that was not a lady's hand on his thigh and he sat up bolt right and stared down. His legs had been vined together. A great heaved sigh and he went about ripped at them, though there was little luck - the vines were thick and he'd have to compliment them on their tightness, he couldn't even feel his feet!

At least that meant his target was close.

Upside, the were just vines. Yuuki pulled a knife from the belt on his chest and went about sawing at the vines, looking grumpy while he did it. "I know you're out there." Yuuki sounded tired, moving to stand up but quickly crashed do his knees - he'd forgotten about the vines around his ankles.

For the love of the gods.

Another sigh and he let his head drop down, "I hate these jobs. Why do those assholes have to pay the most?" He snarled, mostly to himself because now he was angry - but it wasn't a the slave. It was at just about everything else.

paganchick

Xana couldn't contain her giggles when she saw the giant of the man crash to his knees. It was like a great tree falling. Her laughter quickly quieted when she saw the anger in his eyes. Her trick was all meant in good fun, right? She simply knew she couldn't outrun the man. Even though she knew the forest like the back of her hand. He was obviously a tracker, so he would simply track her down once again. No, she couldn't run, she had no choice but to fly.

It had been a while since she had used her wings. When captured by the demon he kept shackles on her wings to help keep her from escaping. Obviously it didn't work. Still, even with the shackles off, the lack of use left them weak, and she knew this. Still, she had no choice.

Xana pushed herself from the branch she sat on and opened her wings. At first she thought she was going to fall to the ground, and it very much appeared she would. At the last moment, her wings seemed to catch the air and lift her up. It was clear that flying was a struggle. She gritted her teeth and clenched her fist. She was flapping her wings hard with minimal results. If she kept that up the man was sure to catch her. She had to think of something or hoped her wings started working better.

Draconian

That little brat.

Yuuki sneered and stood up after ripping the rest of the vines away. Well, at least now he knew where she was. Trying to fly away even! Trying being the key word in that sentence. With little effort he stalked over to where the girl was and grabbed her foot, yanking her down roughly and wrapping his arms around her middle.

"The least you could do was say hello before you made me trip, ya little brat."