Moisture glistened on Chalael's skin as he wrapped it around himself and cooled it down. The early autumn chills seemed to be late coming this year, and the relative heat of the area made him feel sluggish and tired, but it was the best area to find some of the beasts he captured for fur and food, and so he was making do. Come winter he would once more be in his element, and his dancing around the fires of his adopted people would fill many a lengthened night.
For now, though, as the sun moving across the horizon showed it to be late afternoon, the fur trapper was checking the traps he had laid out that morning. Those that were empty he left; those that were full he emptied and reset. He made his traps to kill instantly so that the fur would not be damaged in a struggle, and he made them small so that they wouldn't catch creatures that were awkward to carry. He also warded them so that larger beasts couldn't poach his kills, and as a result he stockpiled a fair amount of food that he was always willing to share, and spent his winters stitching together cloaks that sold well come trading system.
He didn't ward his traps against humans, though, he wouldn't begrudge travellers a little food if properly compensated for it. but today he was coming upon more traps that had been plundered without any kind of compensation being offered. No coin, no substitute food that a traveller might have wearied of, nothing. Chalael could feel the air freezing around his hands as he got angry, but he fought against the emotion, instead concentrating on searching out sources of heat in the area that he didn't recognise. To him, human heat temperatures were as individual as fingerprints, and thus any that he didn't recognise might be his thief or someone who had seen then. By the time he was done resetting his traps and collecting what was left, it was nearing full darkness and he returned his attention to heat sources, locating a fire. Gathering his wares together he took off towards the heat, landing about twenty feet and walking closer.
"Hello the fire! May I share of your heat this evening?"
