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With the kind of night she just had, Sidouer felt like a freaking zombie. Hours upon endless hours of that stupid creature, or beast, trying to claw and climb its way into the house kept both her and Verda up almost all night. Thankfully, for a building that looked like it was about to just let out a heavy sigh and fall over sideways, it withstood the relentless beating it received.

Her eyelids felt so heavy, each blink harder to open to the last. Maybe, just maybe, she could take a quick rest beside the fallen log. It would give her something to lean against and there were enough twigs and branches around that if someone, or something, tried to sneak up on her, she would wake up instantly.

In all honesty, she should just go back to town, lay down on the bed, and take a nap in the safety of the village. But she was honestly so exhausted and the wood she had gathered for the hearth was getting too burdensome to continue to carry.

“Just a few minutes,” Hopefully Varda would come looking for her if she was gone too long. Then again they were of opposing factions so it wouldn’t be a surprise if she was considered an unfortunate casualty.

Sidouer set the stack of wood down on the damp moss-covered ground and sat down beside it. It was cold and her body was tired of shivering, but above all else she needed rest and so she closed her eyes and let sleep take her in these misty woods.

Sidouer stirred when something soft and warm was draped over her but couldn't quite rouse herself into complete wakefulness, and after a moment her knitted brows softened and her shoulders relaxed again.

The humming should have woke her. The sound of pine needles and twigs snapping beneath a heavy weight should have woke her. The powered signature should have woke her. Yet the fog that had settled over her weary mind left her completely oblivious to what was going on around her.

As Sidouer slipped further and further into a deeper sleep, the ability to remain sitting upright became a more impossible task and as she freefell down a dark hole like Alice in Wonderland in her dream her body slouched and started to lean heavily to the side.

Her body shifted and beneath the moss something sharp jabbed her in the thigh. Eyes the color of pink quartz and pale jade snapped open as she drew in a startled breath through clenched and quickly lept to her feet. "What the f-..." Her words were cut off as she stared owl-eyed at the person-

No... it wasn't a person. They had a soft, long white tail behind them. A mauvian? It took a long moment for her mind to catch up before finally realizing who it was beside her and she was finally able to breathe out a sigh and calm down enough to speak his name.

"Arthur?"

"Yeah, I'm ok. " Although it felt almost like a half truth at best with her heart beating as fast as a humming bird's wings and how cold she constantly felt. If she wasn't carefull, and didn't get some actual sleep soon, chances are she would actually get sick which would suck since this place had nothing in the way of medicine.

She brushed the dirt side of her leg and winced when her fingers grazed over a small cut from where she had been jabbed. Damn... A smear ic blood swipped across her white gloves but she paid it no mind and waked over to where she was sitting.

"There's something under the moss..." Sidouer applied a light pressure to the padded ground until she felt the sharp edge again. "Ah!" She grabbed a fistful of dew laden moss and ripped a c***k of it up. Beneath it was a piece of metal which, after she brushed off the dirt, appeared to have some broken symbols or something carved into it. "Huh, wonder what this is."

After turning it over in her hand several times she final walked over to the Maivian to see if he had an idea. "What do you make of it?"