Welcome to Gaia! ::

Rayolun, in one of his increasing less visits to the jungle, was out hunting. There were very few reasons to leave his lovely coast and the ocean, Gerrarden and Lasarra being the very few reasons to leave. His uncle and non fishy food were the other reasons. As much as he loved the sea and fish, it got rather tiring eating fish after awhile, so he would venture back into the jungles for meat and fruit.

On this day, as he was stalking a Maglardilla and came across a much larger female shifter attempting to hunt it as well. Smiling o himself, Rayolun crouched upon a branch above her, watching to see how this rather ungainly hunter did.

Rayolun shook his head. He wasn't sure how she did it, but somehow she managed to be quiet.. not graceful, but still silent. He shook his head s she missed. So close! The Maglardilla fluttered right by him as it fled from her so with a smile he grabbed it with lightning reflexes and slit it's throat quickly. A simple kill. Standing up he hopped down to her level and offered it to her.

"Nice try. I was certain you'd alert it to your presence but surprisingly you didn't." He said softly.

Smiling at her he dropped down to the ground next to her. "You almost caught it so we'll split it. No need for one of us to go hungry. Hunters share when they help each other." He meant what he said. There had been plenty of times another hunter had benefited from him missing a kill, but they had always shared or offered part of the kill to him. So he would do the same.
"And there are always more of these guys around. They're everywhere, though can be difficult to catch sometimes. I haven't run into you before. Do you live near here in one of the villages or are you just moving from place to place?" He asked curiously. Lately he'd become more interested in people. Before, all he really liked was hunting and solitude. But he could get that out at sea. Now that he was inland, he wanted to talk a bit more, maybe get to know people.

Rayolun followed the girl, keeping above her on higher branches to keep an eye out for prey higher in trees.
"Mmm, don't live anywhere really. Just move around hunting and occasionally run into people I know." he whispered back before pausing and motioning her to stillness. Had that been movement he'd spotted further ahead and up?
"Saw something." He muttered before silently dashing along the limb and leaping to another tree, which he proceeded to scale up quickly. Maybe it was some more food!

He crawled up carefully until he'd gotten above the place he'd seen movement. He smiled when he saw the nice sized Sumudu, that'll be enough to feed us both with the Maglardilla's meat.
Rayolun lurked in the branches above and watched Hijil move silently about. He shook his head in amazement; she didn't look like she should bee able to move quietly but she did. He waited until she was opposite and beneath the Sumudu, Rayolun dropped down from his branch towards critter, calling out,"Scaring a Sumudu your way!" He probably could have tried to capture it himself, but he'd gotten the last one, so he felt it was only fair is he scared this one and let her catch it.

Rayolun landed with a soft thud and watched her dispatch it with her fists. He smiled and shook her head. That wouldn't do at all!
He climbed down the tree towards her and walked over, pulling out a small stone knife from his belt.
"Next time, use this. I have extras. A sharp blade will cut through the shells and you don't have to hurt your fists beating it up." He offered the knife to her hilt first. Her blows had been slightly awkward so maybe she was not used to killing? He nodded to the sumudu, "Do you know how to skin them? If not, I can show you how."
This one is recently from a village, gotta be, despite saying she wasn't in a village. Why else would she have such an awkward way of killing an animal and not have a knife or any weapon on her? If she was claiming to not be in one.. maybe she had left in a not so good situation?

"You... you do not act as a lone hunter does, you act far more like the villagers do. You sure you should be out here? Not all the villagers who try and strike out on their own make it." Usually a lone hunter like himself ran across them and did their est to take them back to the villages if they looked to be unable to survive out in the wilderness. His uncle had done that a few times when he'd still been small and traveling with him. This one had some good practices already, knew how to move quietly and could kill. But she needed help. If she was to live by herself, then Rayolun thought that he should give her some help before he moved on.

He thought on the girls response.Couldn't be there? Something must have gone really wrong! He shrugged; not his business whatever it was. He showed her how to skin the small critter, mentioning that she should always cut away from herself since if she slipped and was cutting towards her own body, she was likely to damage herself.

"You aren't as confident. You don't have any weapons. And the way you hunt is rather ungainly." He gave her a small smile to soften the critisim. "It's too dangerous out here for younger people like ourselves to wander aobut unarmed. Not unless you're trained in unarmed combat." After he finished skinning it, he handed the meat to her. "I can show you how to make some traps if you wish. It is a slightly less dangerous way of hunting."