forum Two broken Souls can Heal O/O (Closed)

Started December 07, 2019 by @Echo_6 group

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"Enlighten me." She pulled a string of rope from her bag and started setting up a trap to catch food.

A few hundred years give or take a few," Kye shrugged. He figured she wasn't likely to be surprised.

Her surprise was only shown by one slow blink. She shrugged. Fair enough. So was she, though. She pulled the final string carefully over her trap and stepped back to check it.

(DON'T DIE IT'S BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH!!!)
Kye watched her make the trap, and gave a half smile. "Did you learn to make traps like that by yourself?"

(SO WHAT?)

"Yup." Without glancing at him, she moved back to her bag, sitting back down against the tree. "We leave at dawn."

(SO DON'T DIE IT'S BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH!)
"Ma'am it is midday. Are we really going to just stay here the entire rest of the day?" Kye tipped his head slightly. He wasn't going to argue with her if that was what she decided to do however he did want to know what she had in mind.

(BUT WHAT IF I HAVE NO HEALTH?)

She glared at the tree. "No. I was going to plan out what we're supposed to do. We may not know what your stupid mission is, but I can certainly plan. And we need to get some more food supplies, unless you want to eat game all the time." She made a face in the direction of her traps.

(IF YOU ARE ALIVE YOU HAVE HEALTH!)
"Well, no, however I do have…" he reached into his satchel and pulled a loaf of bread out. It was wrapped in some sort of clear cloth type material. "…this. I keep bread like this with me pretty much wherever I go. If I have a satchel like this with me I likely have a loaf of bread like this. And I can make this last for… months. I can also identify some different edible plants. Or more helpful, things that can make a plant edible."

(…DO I THOUGH?)

She snorted and rolled her eyes, choosing not to answer. She sifted through the contents of her pack, finally pulling out a folded piece of paper. She unfolded it, revealing a large map. She spread it out on the ground, carefully weighing it with small stones before running her finger along the map to a spot halfway across it. It was in the image of a large tree. She scowled and dug her finger into the paper, tearing it a little, then looked away.

(YES!)
Kye looked at the map and tried to figure out where they were, and where they were headed. He wasn't the best at reading maps, but he knew the jist of it. He also looked at the tree that had seemed to make Hunter so unhappy. "Bad memories?" he asked. "You do not need to answer if you do not want to."

(OKAY!)

She ignored him. Carefully folding the piece of paper back into the map, she ran her finger along until she got to a certain spot. Pursing her lips, she nodded to herself, then folded the map back up and stuck it back into her bag. She turned to the guy. "It doesn't matter. It's none of your business, anyway."

Kye dipped his head in a nod. "Fair enough, I understand that," he said plainly. "Do you have anywhere you would like to set up a small camp? Or shall I set it up here?"

"Make the camp where you want. I don't care." She moved over to the griffin and started to rub the her down, before scratching under the creature under its neck until it purred contentedly. Hunter shook her head and almost smiled, then remembered that there was a person there.

(Time skip? To the morning?)

Kye noticed her like for the creature and gave a half smile again before setting up a camp for them. After he had a place for them to sleep he sat on the ground and started listening. Listening to the sounds of the forest and farther. He listened to the ground as creatures walked over it. A large cave system was under them, and from the sounds of it, one little earthquake would cave in some parts including the part they were at.

Hunter opened her eyes, laying still for a moment and staring at the slowly lightening sky. She sighed. She couldn't wait for this to be over so she could - so she could do what? There was nothing back on earth for her except street fighting. All the other worlds had none of her friends anymore. They were all dead. One of the downsides of being immortal. She turned over onto her side, spotted Kye, and was reminded of the task at hand. Groaning quietly, she got up, stretching, and almost went to wake up the man. She stopped, though, deciding for some strange reason to let him sleep a little longer, and went to break camp. When everything was clean, and a rabbit roasting over a fire, she moved over to him. She nudged him with her toe. "Time to get up. We need to leave."

(I am about to cause problems for them.)

Kye opened his eyes, but didn't move. He felt something under him, it felt wrong. That's when he heard the cracking sound through the ground. He slowly moved until he was in a sitting position, trying to keep himself calm so that he didn't cause any panic. "Miss, do not move," he warned keeping his voice calm and steady. "We have a problem."

(Good!)

"What now?" She asked, annoyed, with half a mind to keep moving. But something in his tone made her pause slightly.

"We happen to be on an impending sinkhole," Kye stated calmly. He was moving slowly to a vertical basis, and had picked up his bag. "Any sudden movement or weight shift could cause it to go. And even as a confident cave dweller, I think I would prefer to stay above ground for a bit. So we need to find a way to get away from here in the next… oh, five minutes or so."

"Of course." She rolled her eyes. "This would happen." She whistled to Fallin, who rose into the air, with Hunter's bag already slung around her neck. Hunter moved carefully over to the man. "Where's safe?"

"Nowhere, this entire spot is going," Kye explained. "However…" He focused on listening to the ground all around them. "There are some places that are a bit stronger than others if that is what you meant." He started testing the ground carefully. "Taking a page out of your book, step where I step. Try to step as lightly as possible."

Hunter scowled, pursing her lips. She hated to listen to him, but she didn't feel she had a choice. To make sure he was telling the truth, and not just saying this stuff to make fun of her, she blinked, and the thin film closed over her eyes. Gold sparks flashed around the clearing, and she looked down, fighting a gasp of panic. He was right. It was almost worse than he said. She looked up at the man, momentarily shocked that he would tell the truth, almost forgetting that she had her Sigh in place. He didn't have a lot of weaknesses, she realized, but a picture of a woman was forming in his head…

She shook it off, forcing her Sight down, eyes becoming their usual silver again. She stepped carefully behind him. She could trust that he was trying to keep them safe. For now, at least.

Kye stepped carefully, and slowly so that he didn't leave Hunter behind. He could almost feel her distress, and understood that she did not want to be underground. An image of his mother flashed in his mind and he remembered how helpless he was to help her. This time he could help and he would. "Did you know that there are over forty thousand different planets that can inhabit life on them?" his question had come almost completely out of nowhere even to himself, and there was only one reason that would happen.
Gelion! What are you trying to do?
Distractions, they tend to help, just keep going.

"Not that many, but yes," She grunted, trying to stifle panic. "I've been visited by helped people from about half that many." Despite herself, she let her power rise to the surface and watched the ground in horror. It was so weak already…