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Tahira's focus was centered firmly on trying to set up a snare, it was important to learn how to trap and kill the beasts that roamed the forest floor. While much of Jauhar's food came from the trees and insects that lived on or in them there were still meat bearing creatures that made for a good meal every now and then.

Of course snares were not the nicest want to take down an animal and could lead to your prey's suffering if you weren't nearby to quickly dispatch it. Alkidke should pride themselves on being efficient and Tahira planned t-

The young girl's antenna twitched just as a soft giggle came from her left. She turned her head towards the sound and narrowed her grey eyes in the direction of the disturbance. Whoever it was was fairly small which made the hybrid girl smile, children were no threat. "Come on out little youngling."

Tahira frowned a little as the boy crawled out from the bushes, he most certainly didn't look like he belonged here. Where were this younglings parents? Had they lost him in the confusing maze like jungle that was Jauhar, or had the family been separated due to a surprise predator attack.

The girl crouched down to be closer to the small boy's height. " I am Alkidike" she confirmed," and half wind but I live here with my sisters as Aisha would want it to be." She would travel someday and visit Sauti but Jauhar would always be her home.

" You may touch them if you are gentle, antenna are very sensitive." Tahira did muse upon the fact that her antenna were more sensitive to magic than to other forms of life like full blooded Alkidike.

"Aisha does not grant her children jeweled bodies," Tahira replied with a shake of her head "Those come purely from my wind half and I suppose Bergchi. However you can find many halfbloods amongst my kin." Even the odd male which was more than a little weird for Tahira when she tried interacting with them.

"My antenna sense magic, although it's hard to explain exactly how or what it feels like to me. It's just a sort of knowing when magic is being used or when something old and magical is around."

"How did you come to be in Jauhar?" Here Tahira's voice grew gentle, in case the explanation came with bad memories.

This boy had an enthusiasm to match her own and it made Tahira grin, so many questions to answer and things to explain.

"I don"t know why my antenna can sense magic, it is a mystery to me and likely linked to my mixed heritage." Kadriye a mystic in training that Tahira knew could sense magic but she was born to it and the older girl's experiences had not seemed at all related to her.

Leaning against the trunk of a tree Tahira looked down at the pale haired boy again and shook her head slowly. "I've never found anything interesting with them so I have nothing to show you, sorry." Left unspoken was the excuse that she had spent much of her childhood focused on other pursuits and less on trying to suss out special ways she could use her unique traits. That and the fact that youngling or not anything she found would likely be considered secret and not for the eyes of an outsider.

"Magic is indeed amazing" she admitted though. Alkidike were not themselves a very magic prone people but what she saw of it Tahira admired. " Aisha is the mother of all Alkidike and she lives even to this day, continuing to give birth to all of my sisters in the form of lotus blossoms." She was not gifted with the ability to commune with Aisha and she was far to young to ask a child of her but in a way Tahira knew her as all Alkidike did. Someday she would like to climb the tallest mountain in Sauti and see if she could feel Bergchi's presence at it's icy peak

However first she needed to figure out what to do with this small boy. He was lost and possibly abandoned or orphaned. Takoda was name Tahira had heard before, he was a shifter, one of their healers if she remembered right. The young woman dismissed his rumoured kindess and skill if he allowed a formerly ill youngling to wander into the depths of Jauhar. Or perhaps he too had not survived whatever incident had left the child alone.

" Why don't you tell me your name and I will see if we can't find your caretakers somewhere," Tahira murmured , voice growing softer again as she listened to the sounds of the jungle around her.

He thought she was pretty! Tahira gave a small smile at the youngling's compliment even if she was far from actually being a flower. Her amusment faded though as the boy revealed his age and his apparent lack of understanding about who should be responsible for him. The wing tribe was supposed to be good at the whole family thing so how could this child not know?

"Nuawahn is an interesting name," she replied, frowning slightly as the sound of some unfamiliar creature approached." Caretakers are parents or other adults whose job it is to make sure you're safe and have what you need. They teach you things and help you to grow into an adult yourself." Alkidike could rely on older sisters to help raise them but they still had parents in a sense, those who had wished for them and who raised them to love Aisha and walk the path she had set out for her people.

Tahira was relieved that the boy did seem to indeed have family somewhere. Hopefully they were still alive, she was not great with the whole feelings thing and trying to help someone deal with being orphaned was not in her skillset.

Before the girl could comment on finding them again a Capramel came into view and the youngling had darted over to it. Amma as the boy called her certainly looked strong but she was not built to live in Jauhar. There was no way such a creature could take care of a growing child. Well maybe out in Sauti but not in Jauhar where being ground based most of the time was just asking for a predator to eat you. that and she wasn't sure if the creature would instinctively know what was and wasn't edible foliage out here. Tahira didn't know if animals were all just born knowing these sorts of things.


"I could take you to some magic," Tahira agreed. She doubted she could track down some magic place on hand but her ma was a wind tribe earthling trained in defensive magic and she did sort of know Kadriye who was a mystic in training.

The pale haired girl eyes the capramel warily, she could maybe wrestle the beast into submission if it got feisty but it'd be a tall order to be sure. "Just tell Amma to behave or I'm sending both of you home without having any fun." As it was she hoped she could convince the boy to let her look for his family once he'd had a bit of distracting entertainment.

Tahira gently squeezed the boys hand and she began to lead him away from where she had been laying down traps. Hopefully nothing found itself caught while she wasn't there to end it's suffering. Of course her being absent also gave her intended prey time to free themselves if they were strong or clever enough. If nothing else she'd like to return to her snares still being in one piece. Sometimes the local wildlife could and would dismantle and destroy unattended traps. It would be time ans resource consuming to replace the snares if anything happened to them.

Still, Tahira doubted the excited boy she was guiding would have had the patience to wait while dragged him around. It was best to move on to something a little more exciting. "What sort of magic think should we look for?" She might be well known for being meddlesome when she thought she knew best but Tahira could be accommodating on occasion. Besides if she knew what sort of thing he was interested in she could probably find something that fit that description.