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Eli was on the front porch cleaning some old traps and waiting waiting for Uzi and Kell to return. He'd heard kell's loud baying and it had unnerved him/ made him reach for his gun when it stopped and there was no more forthcoming sound in the distance. Nothing moved out there and no dust rose into the air designating a scuffle. Knowing Uzi was out there somewhere Eli had grudgingly passed it off as another brief standoff with that nosy ownerless wanderer from before. Though the hunter kept his rifle within arms reach just in case he was fairly sure nothing drastic had happened or there'd have been some sign of it. For right now all the auburn haired man intended to do was finish cleaning the traps , so he could start showing Uzi how they worked, and watch the horizon in case it became apparent he was needed.


" Eli is protective of me" the words made Uzi grin a bit " But he will not harm you unless you act threateningly, just remain calm." The huntress gave her instructions as she raised an arms to wave at her bonded and let him know that everything was fine. Ker keens eyes could make out the look of surprise and then amusement on his face when she noticed she had another companion. Uzi supposed it made sense, for all she was distance with most she had been attracting others to herself lately. It wasn't like she was trying though. Even if she was finding companionship with others to not be as awkward as it had been before.

Eli waved back at the essentic and wondered who and what she had brought back with her also more importantly why she had.

Uzi smiled a bit more, Fran was about as socially awkward as she had been and occasionally still was, it was amusing. she pulled him behind her her till they were just feet from, the porch. Her tail swayed behind her and her ears still as she gestured towards the green eyed man that was her bonded. "Eli this is Fran, I found him and he's hungry". Not the most sophisticated sentenced but it told the other exactly what she felt he needed to know about the situation.

Eli nodded and let his green eyes settle on the newcomer, he was no species the hunter recognized and thus most likely another essentic. " I see, Welcome then and the only things we have at the moment need to be barbecued so I hope you're not a vegetarian." He wasn't adverse to feeding Uzi's new acquaintance, espeically one who'd caused the colour change in her again, but they did need to do a grocery run later to stock up on everything but meat.

"Yep, and I didn't think you were but you never know" For all Eli know though claws were for pulling bark of trees or or digging in the dirt to get to plants roots and the teeth were used to break open nuts or something of the like. Over time the redhead had learned to try and assume as little as possible about the odd looking people he met. Drente was filled with far to many races to really get judgmental.

He set the trap he was working on to the side and rose to properly greet Francis with an offered hand. Eli could tell there was a problem with the boy's vision by the way he moved but how severe it was he wasn't sure. Vaugely he wondered what it was with him and meeting those that were vision impaired lately, first Fao's son and now this. Briefly he wondered why Uzi didn't seem so bothered by it as she had been with the baby.

Eli wondered if this essentic, for what else could it be with those looks, was an alter like Uzi or just an incredibly tall proto. Given it's looks he assumed Francis was most likely a combat type though he could be completely wrong and it;s looks could be based solely on influences. The auburn haired man resisted the urge to sigh, why were essentics so hard to sort out, they were nearly as complex as people.

After a brief handshake Eli nodded in answer to the other's question. " Fairly often for groceries and to trade in skins and skulls leftover from hunts." rarely did groceries include meat though given that hunting left him and his parents with a rather steady and varied supply of them. " We don't tend to go a lot of non work related places though." He knew the city layout itself well but damned if he knew where most things inside it were without being told intersecting streets or levels.

Letting the two males talk Uzi hopped up onto the porch railing and peered down at the traps Eli'd been cleaning. She'd seen them before in an old shed but she'd never really had a chance to examine them. They were for hunting though she knew that much from experience and the fact that all the cleaning in the world didn't remove the scent of death on them that was so obvious to her.

Kell settled down by Eli's feet, the old dog's tail thumping against the ground.

"It's a metal hunting trap." Eli explained " We don't use them a lot anymore but I felt Uzi would at least learn how they work and how to lay down a trapping line." It'd test her tracking abilities and weather or not she'd learn how to anticipate the movement and behavior patterns of the things she was hunting. If she could lay a good line he;d have a new way to gauge that set of skills and it would keep her mind occupied a while longer till he actually got her ready to attend school, assuming she still wished to go.

Uzi's gaze shifted between Fran and the trap from where she was on the railing. Hmm that was bad, if the other were to stick aroudn while she was using these he could walk right into one and that would be extremely bad. As it was the porch seemed like a big enough obstacle.

" A while, I've lost track of time to be honest" Eli admitted. " I've taught Uzi a lot but she has also always just had the instincts for it as some people do."

Uzi grinned and swished her tail at that

"And you" Eli continued " Can I ask what it is you do?"

'Be good?' What kind of purpose was that? Eli supposed though that if you just grabbed a spark and panicked be good might be the first thing that popped into your mind when it asked you what you wanted it to be. Although how Francis had quit that he wasn't sure he wanted to know.

"He's not going to be trouble" Uzi insisted from up on the railing, knowing what Eli was about to open his mouth and say. She'd learned over time to interpret her bonded's general thought patterns. "He just needs my help for a bit." Francis was her project even if she still wasn't entirely sure what she was doing with him beyond what instincts told her to.

"She didn't drag you here unwillingly right? " Eli was willing to take Uzi at face value for the most part on behalf of the boy. He didn't seem like trouble waiting to happen, still he might not even be here of his own free will. Or at least not without the lure of food, which he should actually get to making in a minute just as soon as he made sure the boy wasn't some sort of accidental prisoner.