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"Perfect! They're in view."

Sarah Whitechalk sat in a tree on the outskirts of Zantaric. She was practicing her assassination skills today, and she had been following her "target" for the better part of the day. She didn't know the person she was following- she'd chosen them at random. Sarah held her binoculars up to her eyes. "They're alone. Nobody else in sight. Awesome."

Finally, it happened- her target craned their neck to look at something, allowing Sarah a perfect view of their carotid artery. She grinned. "Yes! This is the part where I'd kill them! I win!"

Sarah, of course, didn't actually kill her target- she had no reason to. She liked knowing that she could have killed them though, and that's what mattered. Satisfied, she began to climb out of the tree...

...And with a loud *SNAP*, the branch she'd been sitting on broke off of the tree. Sarah yelped as she plummeted to the ground, landing with a dull thud. In a daze, she looked up to see her target staring at her. Sarah went pale- the binoculars in her hands made it fairly obvious that she'd been watching somebody, and since they were the only other person around...

"Shit! It's, uh, not what it looks like!"

homeboy!

Bobby had been wandering the village all day, egg clutched firmly at his side. He didn't trust the area very much, and he had the distinct feeling he was being watched. He reached a clearing, looking around to see if he had been followed. He heard a rustle in the tree above him, then the snapping of a branch.

Bobby's reaction was quite panicked at first, lifting the egg up and out of the way of whatever just plummeted before him. His eyes went to the binoculars, then to the woman's pale face.

"Were you.. stalking me?" Bobby had a confused pout on his face, with one hand on his spear.

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"No." Sarah replied immediately, hastily sitting up. She shoved her binoculars into her coat pocket, glancing up to take a better look at the man. She blinked. What was up with that hair? He looked ridiculous!

"If you must know..." Sarah said, eyes still fixated on the man's pompadour. "...I'm birdwatching. It's, uh, migration season."

homeboy!

"Right." Bobby was only half listening, a hand moving from his spear to his hair, watching eyes made him feel a bit self-conscious. Taking a moment to process their words, he was inclined to pry more, a hint of mistrust in his voice.

"What kindof birds where you watching?"

Eckhart_Von_Musel

Perhaps noticing her stare, the man reached towards his hair uncomfortably. Good. Sarah pushed herself up, flicking her hood over her head. She just had to find an excuse to leave...

"Huh?"

Sarah blinked as her former target spoke up again, tilting her head to the side. "Word... birds?" she repeated, feeling very much out of the loop. Was it some kind of jargon? A horrible realization dawned on her- this guy might be a birdwatcher himself! If she screwed up her answer, would he know she was lying?

"Too many to count!" she exclaimed after a moment. "Like, chickadees, uh, whip-poor-wills..."

That had to be it, right? A word bird was a bird whose name was the same as it's song... right?