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[Location: Hallowmarl]

The heat in Hallowmarl was something that required getting used to. Luckily Leandar was very much used to it, having spent his entire life there. Taking refuge under a tree, his tiny wildcat ears twitched. Searching the surrounding area like two small satellite dishes for any sound. Leandar was bored and looking for another member of his tribe.

"Wildcat. Tomcats are a distant cousin. Far superior to a coon... Hello," Leandar replied. The shade from the desert tree provided him with all the comfort he needed at the moment, but this raccoon could be this afternoon's entertainment. The sun was high in the sky, and it had been many hours since his last drink, and that was just after sunrise. Leandar had tried to go to a favorite watering hole of his, a well-hidden oasis, but the scorching sun had long depleted all the water. "Got any water," he questioned?

"I've been in worse company I suppose..." Standing up like a bipedal, the cat stretched, letting the warm sun wash over his body like a wave. Returning to rest on four legs, Leandar strolled over to Valerie. "My name's Leandar, member of the Hallowmarl tribe, and your name?..." The fun-loving cat waited for a reply, in addition to the raccoon's name.. It simply wouldn't do to call her "inferior raccoon" the whole way...

The wildcat was confused by that question. To his knowledge, water sources in the desert were about as trustworthy as a sneaky raptor. "Water wells dry up all the time... one of the greatest challenges of living in the desert is finding water... Is it not?" The hot sand was beginning to irritate his paws as Leandar padded quickly across the scorching sands. For the moment he would put up with it. Unfortunately it wouldn't be dark for quite sometime. The feline scanned the desert seeking potential sanctuary.

The wildcat nodded, dipping into well, he revived himself with more than a few cups of water. It would be a long time before the sun began it's slow descent out of the sky, and Leandar decided to find somewhere to wait it out... Thinking for a moment, nowhere seemed better than the vast expanse of tunnels that ran through the desert. "Adventure, ho!" The wildcat exclaimed loudly, joking to himself as he scurried into the tunnel system.

Leandar came out of a nearby tunnel exit, the sun was beginning to set and the wildcat figured it would be a good time to reenter the outside world. Slowly pacing across the desert sands, he happened to pass by Robert's burrow on his way to forage for food and anything that peaked his interest.

Leandar felt like he was being watched, followed, however he stowed the feeling, and continued marching onward. The idea had taken root in his mind to make a new dulcimer. Once when he was travelling along Route 65 to check out what all the rumors were about, Leandar found an old, abandoned dulcimer that needed strings to work. Improvising and using the things available to a forest creature, Leandar fixed the instrument, but time worn down on the dulcimer, and it was no longer of any use.

Looking over his shoulder casually, he spotted Robert following him. Leandar stopped and turned, "are you following me?"

Leandar grinned, perhaps a chance to make a friend in this barren desert, he thought. "I'm gonna go forage for things to make a guitar if you would like to come with me?" The wildcat turned to the face the other direction, continuing his headlong pace to west. He was headed to sunhedge, in order to get a stone. The world he lived in was not one without confrontation. Leandar was intending to make his musical instrument a weapon, carefree as he was, the wildcat was anything but naive.