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Sin smirked and followed the other redhead. Her dark eyes darted to Angela's and the smirk widened.

"Coming, midget?" She darted ahead of Zen before Angela could respond, actually skipping. Her long, knee-length blood-scarlet hair unfurled and flowed in the breeze like a sail, and her obsidian lace dress tossed about messily.


Gypsum facepalmed and shook his head into his hand. He leaned his head back, looking into the sky, and took a deep breath.

"Please, please just ignore her... Angela, was it?" He sighed and rubbed his forehead as he walked in step with the much shorter woman. "She's had a hard time, and while that doesn't excuse...well, it kinda.......she's a b***h." He finished tiredly, frowning and avoiding looking at the person next to him. "Don't let her rile you up, it'll only encourage her."


The Fluff perched on Cheeva's shoulder began humming happily, and practically seeming to glow...probably because it was glowing. It snuggled lazily as it watched its other half run off with the strange, tall redheaded man.

Seeing as Inutai didn't want to budge from his spot, Toshi merely picked him up and placed the kid on his shoulders, following after the sound of their footsteps. Seeing as they were the only people around, it made it easier to follow by sound alone. He made sure to stay behind the footsteps of the group, not beside, so he wouldn't run in to anything or stray off course.

||...Lmfao, Cheeva...XD||

Angela snickered softly to herself when she heard Cheeva's assertion that she did not have fleas. "Glad to know that one hit home," she said with a grin. She glanced up at Gyp. "Excuse me," she said. And then quickly caught up to Zen and Sin at the head of the group. "Everyone see that?" she said pointing.


As the group walked, they noticed an area about thirty yards to their right. It was flat, raised ground and it was clearly a road leading from the forest to the mountains they were heading toward. It was a little less than 8 feet wide and was not paved but the dirt was packed flat and it was free of weeds or shrubs. There were deep grooves in the dirt from what appeared to most likely be wagons or carts but no fresh tracks from either horses or people, indicating that it hadn't be used recently.

After traveling a few miles down the road, the group came across the remnants of a destroyed wagon. Broken and splintered wood littered the path. There were a few rusted weapons scattered around and dark patches of brown that seemed soaked into the ground. There were no bodies or bones. Just a few remnants of ripped, stained clothing. Some goods--pottery, flasks of water, and a large purse of silver coins with strange writing, as well as a few other odds and ends that might be of some small value--survived the attack.

Cheeva glared a the man, Zen. "Ray-bees? What are ray-bees..." she stopped. The leaders of the group, the white-haired Midget and Zen, had stopped and were staring at a spot to the right.
"Everyone see that?" Angela asked.
"Excuse me a moment," Cheeva said to Toshi, patting his arm, before moving ahead of them all, down the packed-dirt road. Cart tracks led off in both directions but they were old. She crouched and ran her fingers through the grooves. Old but once well-used. There was evidence of horses, too, but they were just as old as the tracks.
"No one has used this road for a long time," she said, dusting off her hands as she stood and moved on to the wagon. "A very long time. The scents are all gone."
Gingerly, Cheeva moved through the wreckage of the peddler's wagon. There was blood, but it was old. The scent of death had long gone. That wasn't what concerned her.
"The lack of bodies isn't unusual," she sad quietly to Zen as he crouched over some of the wreckage. "Some animals simply eat every part of their prey. Bones, entrails..." Cheeva tapped the wood with a finger. "This, however, this splintering, is worrisome. Whatever it was that attacked, it was big."
She bent and began gathering up the strewn belongings. "Hmm, good pickings though."

The taller man blinked as the girl sprinted a short distance ahead. "Everyone see that?" His eyes followed the sway of her shimmering white hair.


"Oooooh, don't you love the smell of blood in the afternoon?" She called over her shoulder at Zen as the other girl--Angela, she thought-- passed her, closely followed by the cat-shifter. "Not nearly as fresh as I'd like though." Sin crouched and brushed the red-swollen ground with her fingertips, breathing deeply, and her eyes were lit with a disturbing lustful light. She smiled as she continued caressing the ground.

"No one has used this road for a long time..." She ignored the discussion completely contradicting what she'd said in favor of etching patterns into the red-crusted ground in a fascinated fashion.


Gypsum sighed and did his best to ignore his companion as he headed over to help Cheeva, scooping up a couple of what looked like moneybags and what seemed to be an old fire-hardened walking stick... it would be easier to tell if it wasn't completely splattered and soaked in blood. He grimaced at the texture, but it seemed sturdy.


The Fluff hopped off Cheeva's shoulder as she neared the ground, and stopped glowing. It did however, squeak excitedly as it found what looked like a small, rusty object about 3 times The Fluff's length that was (suprisingly) mostly devoid of anything other than dust.

It then proceeded to swallow it whole.


Gyp, who had been crouching near it while examining the staff, shuddered. "I hate it when you do that," he mumbled, and offered a hand out to it, which it accepted and hopped onto. He blinked, straightened, and faced Cheeva as he noticed something. "I see It took a liking to you?" He gestured at her now-healed neck, and It cooed at her as it settled onto her shoulder.

Toshi heard someone, he believed it was Angela, ask if everyone saw something up ahead. Of course, he couldn't see it, but Inutai could and did. Climbing down off Toshi's shoulders, he led Toshi over to the wreckage curiously. He'd never seen anything like it, so was more fascinated by the sight than cautious as he should have been.

Inutai could faintly smell blood, but it was mixed together with a bunch of other smells, meaning it wasn't very fresh at all. He saw all the various things scattered about, but didn't really recognize them to be anything of value (at least to his standards. Either that, he couldn't tell what it was). His ears twitched slightly as he heard Angela curse under her breath. Of course, the smell of newly made blood attracted made him go see what was wrong.

He rushed over to Angela and saw she was messing with one of her fingers. Without asking, he grabbed her hand to lower it down to his level so he could look at it. Seeing the splinter, he frowned slightly. He then smiled slightly, tail wagging happily, as he realized something. "I can get it out for you!" he offered somewhat too excitedly. Without so much as giving Angela a chance to respond, he bite into her finger with one of his fangs, successfully extracting the wood. However, he also drew blood (more so than the pinprick she had before). He knew that because he could taste it, and had to be yanked back by Toshi to stop himself from doing something stupid.

((I hope this is okay. If not, I can edit it. XO))