[PRP] Are You Sure? (Jayani & Farraginis)

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It had been a while since Jayani had injured herself and Farraginis had tried to show his concern for her while not hovering. The leopard feared that he may not have succeeded in all respects, but that time was past now. The leopardess had told him late yesterday that she was all healed and ready for action on the morrow.

So...here he was. Picking her up. To go into the jungle. Together.

There was something...ironic, was it?...about the situation. Him insisting on accompanying her out into the very jungle where they'd first stumbled into each other. Well, that meeting had gone well, else he wouldn't be in the Usafi'tukufu now, would he?

Of course, there was no telling how that would translate into them as a hunting team.

"You ready to go?" he asked the white leopardess aloud.  

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"Food, hopefully," the mottled and striped leopard replied half-jokingly. Only half. He did not have the greatest track record in the world when it came to hunting, though he was reluctant to admit that to anyone, let alone the lovely leopardess besides him.

"Where is the best place to start?" Farraginis asked as they moved out at an easy pace. There wouldn't be anything too close to the ruins, that he was sure of. Beyond that, he was still quite new here, still learning the ropes.  

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Farraginis nodded in agreement. Thick ferns did sound like a good place to start looking...but he still didn't know what he was looking for! Apparently more than just the scenery changed when you moved from the savannah to the jungle!

"I'm afraid I don't even know what those are," he admitted, trying to conceal the depth of his embarrassment from Jayani. "But as long as we're not talking something...the size of an elephant, or even a wild ox, two of us should be able to take it down."

"Sadly, when I first came here, I was so amazed by everything around me, I wasn't really taking notes," he confided.  

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"How about I just follow your lead, for now?" Farraginis offered. He could make some guesses as to what those animals were based on similarities between their names and the ones he knew for other creatures, but that wasn't quite the same as knowing what they might find.

"And then," he continued lightly, "you can follow my lead back to the colony once we're done!" He said it teasingly, but it didn't change the fact that he was keeping track of where they went so that they could, indeed, find their way back.  

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"That...sounds like it should work fairly well," the leopard reflected as Jayani outlined her plan for tackling prey. The creatures would run from the first of them only to run straight into the other. It was a good, solid strategy, and one he could admire. "Which of us should fill what role?"

He had to smile as she laughed at herself. Never underestimate the appeal of any leopardess willing to go that far! "Your wish is my command," he jested in return, pausing in his stride to bow. "I live only to serve!"  

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Farraginis grinned. "Sounds easy enough to me," he told Jayani. "And of course I will be your humble servant and lug the carcass of whatever unfortunate creature we manage to kill all the way back to the colony," the leopard went on obsequiously, but the glint in his eye betrayed his own amusement at the situation.

For some reason, being out here on the hunt made him feel alive again, in a way he hadn't really been in quite some time. Or...was that because he was out here hunting with Jayani? He couldn't be certain.