Stepping cautiously over the scattered remains of a long since decayed creature, a young woman clad in animal furs and hides tread cautiously over the tainted earth with purpose. With a great longbow crafted from dragon bones gripped tightly in hand and held forth before her ,and her long and muscular legs carrying her forward with such powerful and graceful , she did not bear the appearance of easy prey. No, in fact, she moved with a lethal and calculated gait of a hunter , her movements comparable with a hunting cat.
Sorcha was ever the cautious hunter. Always alert for any sign of danger but this strange, twisted new land that she had come to had somehow heightened her awareness as well her paranoia. She shivered though it was not for any reason of being chilled that she did so.
In the farthest recesses of her mind, Sorcha deeply regretted coming here. From the moment she'd set foot on this twisted, decaying soil , she'd felt every individual hair on the back of her neck tingling. Everything about this place seemed to scream to her , 'Malevolent spirits!' . A sane person would have had the sense to turn around and go back the way that they'd come from, but not Sorcha Jordis. Altiuiri'Rygat was here now and for that very reason alone, she could not leave as her instincts desired.
She'd tracked the foul servant of her nemesis to these tainted grounds , to the Fell, to seek something very specific from the foul beast. He held a crucial piece to the puzzle and obtaining it from him would bring her one step closer to her goal. And for that, she was willing to brave whatever danger. Yes, even the Fell itself.
Fortunately for her, she'd managed to evade most of the hostile wildlife here. She'd slain a grossly mutated creature that - well, she had NO idea what it was supposed to be and fairly sure that it wasn't natural. She'd never seen an elk with three heads and razor sharp fangs before and she was fairly sure that elk did not naturally possess serpent scales or hawk's wings . And ...if she knew what a scorpion was, she wouldn't have been quite so bewildered by it's stinging tail either! By the Great Spirits, this place was one of the most bizarre she'd ever had the displeasure of venturing to!
Unfortunately, such strangeness was not to end there either. For as she stepped into a rocky clearing, her eyes settled on the most peculiar sight. She drew nearer , perhaps foolishly so , and looked down at a small fleshy being that flailed and wailed , nestled in a bed of silken black cloth. "A...child? " The huntress frowned and looked around. What was she doing here alone and out here of all places? "Spirits, this cannot be a good sign." She had a bad feeling about this. This was highly unusual. Who would be STUPID enough to bring a small child HERE? Where were the parents or guardian of this stranded babe?
She looked around for any signs of an adult , "Hello? Is anyone there? You seem to have forgotten you child. "
She waited, her eyes searching the gloom desperately. But no one answered and no one approached. All was still save for the crying babe.
The huntress looked down again at the child and sighed , heavily. "A cruel game the Spirits do play. " She shouldered her bow and bent low to scoop up the child and as she did so, she pulled up the cloth and wrapped the naked babe in it. She cradled the two-year-old in her strong arms as gently as someone of her experience could but she was certainly no mother and she felt awkward now. She'd never encountered this sort of situation before and she was at a loss of what to do.
"What are you doing here, little one?" Sorcha inquired , not expecting the babe to respond, but merely talking to Fiara gently while mentally trying to sort out how she was going to proceed from here. She had a mission and she wasn't going to let some stranded child lead her off course. At the same time, there was NO way she could possibly drag a vulnerable being into harm's way.
She couldn't abandon the child either. She wasn't that cruel or selfish.
"The Spirits are cruel , indeed." She sighed.
ooc: Oh I see how it is. Lure her with innocent child then BITE her when she's not suspecting it. You're so sneaky, Miss!
Meh. Not as good as I wanted it to be but at this late hour the brain just takes a dive ....>>;
At least I've posted! YAY!