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Kiyelt had his hand out for Ichil, they were out in the desert looking for rumored Tintural in the area, some strange Yaelian beasts that he couldn't wait to find. Despite the bulging tent at home, he wanted to see what an isolated island could produce in a creature, from what he had heard they were kind of like Bushi, but the best way to describe a critter was to see one for yourself. People never seemed to get everything right and there were hundreds of tall critter stories basically everywhere and he was having none of that..besides following one of them out here...he really needed to stay out of that stupid pub.

"Do you hear anything? Maybe they grunt..Sky grunts sometimes, thats part of how I know hes following us right now."

"Go home Sky! I don't need you scaring whatever is out here!"

He has his whip and his muscles she had her crossbow they would be fine..it wasn't like a yaotl anyway. At least he hoped it wasn't.

"If its too scary or dangerous we are heading right home. I'll not risk hurting you or leaving you to drag my big butt home."

"Really? How did you do it? I love stories like that, especially when I get to imagine your gorgeous self in the role of heroine. What was the weapon?"

He slithered down into the sand and found a small pile of well dung. "This I have not seen before...we must be on the right track, its covered here see, means the wind had blown over the footprints. The problem with no footprints is, we don't know what way it went. So Ichil pick a direction and we will follow it and hope we find the critter. The good news is if its like a Bushi, it probably doesn't walk all that fast so we can get a lot of searching done."

"Actually I think I would take sand walker as a compliment, its hard to walk in sand, and he who is about to be bug food should not snark at his saviour. I hope his wife kicked his butt when he got home." Kiyelt would if he were there, she should not be disrespected Ichil had an open caring mind and he just about started to growl thinking about it. But at least the male had taught her the crossbow. So some good came of it.

Kiyelt started off in the direction she indicated, she was probably luckier then him anyway. "I will try yes, just think of the things we can learn from it, it being from that new place after all."

"I've heard nothing but bad things from the dretch, I don't imagine the Yaeli evil ones are much different."

"Excellent point, then we best find it soon or its more then likely to parish out here, its not the easiest place to adapt to speaking from experience." He had had to throw his entire life out there to survive, and when life got rough elsewhere it was back to Oba he went. The place that now made more sense to him then anywhere else in a weird twist of fate and circumstance.

"Water would be the most pressing problem I think." As it was everywhere, but it was always more emphasized in a desert setting such as this. He sped up a little and saw a plant growing out of a dune. "Um, do you recognize that plant there? I don't."

Suspicious Kiyelt went over to poke at it and the ground started to move a weird creatures shivered sand off itself until it was standing free of the dune blinking at them. "Well what a clever beastie you are, Ichil good work you found it!"

The critter looked a little weak as well it should but it was remarkable that it had buried itself in the sand to avoid the baleful gaze of the Oban sun. "It looks tired already, why don't you try first. It will be good practice and I'll back you up."

"Alright then," he slowly walked closer in order not to startle the poor thing. "Hey you, I think you need some water huh? There are secrets out here in the desert if you let me I will show them to you." The creature bit at him but he dodged and grabbed its head in a firm but gently grip, letting his hands get pulled closer to the shell. They stayed like that for a long time, Kiyelt was used to getting bucked around and scratched and otherwise attacked, this was more a battle of patience then anything else. Eventually they both relaxed a hair and kiyelt released the head to pat the skull, he wasn't sure the critter would feel his touch anywhere else. "Now we are getting somewhere. The problem I think is going to be taking you home." He pulled out a cantina of water and poured some in his hand offering it to the turtle who took it.

"Maybe if we built a skid out of some bushes, I could tow him home.." He regretted now sending the usually ever present janarim home but he would have been a bigger problem with taming then not. Kiyelt huffed. "Then we have to lure the tortoise on the skid." He had some dried fruit somewhere didnt he?"

Kiyelt laid his pelt over top of it, "I think the fruit will work, I really hope it will work because its built like a tank from the looks of things, and too heavy to pick up normally. Lets try," Kiyelt held out the fruit, nodding for Ichil to do the same as they tried to lure a turtle onto the contraption. "I'm really glad we are not too far from the base. I hear they have something bigger then this too."

Bigger and freaking scary looking. He was glad they had the turtle, the snake would have been alright but he would hate to pale in front of a large strange beast it would hurt his professionalism.