Fantasy RPG Forum - Standing Trials

Looking at her she smiled a bit. Those were all good answers to her questions. But she had stays silent as she waited for the other girl to speak. Eating her meal silently, even absent minded. She looks at Toscun and nods, "This world has an amazing way to show you that you're point of view isn't the only one. But I do really like the feel of what you said."

Sen looked at the woman and chuckled. "It's like.. you understand the spiritual feel to hunting that most others don't. I'm not really all that into it like that.. I'm more in for the leather and feeling good about what I've done. It kind of makes me feel shallow." She closes her eyes and gives a small laugh. "But at the same time, there is a spiritual part to it. A calming yet riling effect it has on me. Both at the same time, those feelings I mean. It's disorienting and breath taking but I feel like it's a wonderful thing that shouldn't be ignored."

She has stopped humming to talk. Though now that she had something to talk about, it seemed that her mind didn't want to wander. She liked that. That was good. It meant that when it came time for the hunt she should be able to focus on it, and not him..

Looking at the sky again, Sen let out a soft laugh. "Moseke has done a wonderful thing. And her creatures... and us as a people are a gift to this world." She looked back over to Toscun. "We'll do what we can on this hunt Toscun. We will be proud of what we accomplish, and we'll enjoy the time we were given." She chuckles and looks at Toscun with the softest of smiles. "I think that, life is a gift, and death can bring more life." She smiles. "A circle that lives on within us." She smiled and glanced over at the other hunters that seemed to be listening in on their conversation, maybe wondering what they were going to hunt. She wouldn't utter a word of what animal they were tracking, not yet.

Her lips curved down a little bit though at the thought that they would be the only two going. Yet again, a bit of unease filling her heart. Shaking her head she she ate the rest of her food and then stood up and smiled at Toscun. "Why don't we go our separate ways for now. I have to get my items and then there's also the fact that I have to get myself some new arrows." She smiled softly and brushed herself off like it was an afterthought.

"I'll be there as soon as I can." she smiled and walked towards the stalls, and shops, she knew a shop she could go to get the item she needed. The shop she went to was that of a Fletcher. She smiled as she walked in and browse around until she found a set of 40 arrows that looked good. They weren't poor in quality, nor were they exceeding the expectations of quality. She smiled and spoke to the Fletcher. They spoke for a bit. The Fletcher actually hoping for a trade, but settling for 1 GN and 2 SN instead, since Sen was still new in her line of work.

As soon as all that was done. Sen jogged back home and scrambled up the ladder and into the house. She waved to her mother, who was weaving in the floor, and assumed that her father would be home soon from a hunt. hopefully he caught something good today, like she and Toscun where hoping to.

Walking into her room she unwrapped the arrows and stuck as many as she could fit in her quiver. Which was about 30 arrows without it being impossible to just pull one out without making a mess. The rest of them, she wrapped of up again and put them on the floor against the wall. Running with it parallel so that she was less likely to step on them. They each had a ty off on them, with a feather. At least her new one's did. She hadn't noticed it before, but it would be easier for her to spot her arrows if she misfired. She smiled. What a thoughtful arrow maker.

Putting on her bow and quiver in a way that would be easy for her to take the bow up and pick out arrows when she needed them only. Then she grabbed the other supplies that she thought she would need, and dropped off her coins purse under the bed. She smiled to herself again. "May the hunt go well and may Moseke continue to grant us the needed sources for continued life." She smiled before she walked out the door, waived to her mother for a good by and climbed back down the ladder.

As she went down the ladder, she mad a mental list of what she had with her.
1. Bow
2. 30 arrows and a quiver to hold them
3. Knife
4. 1 Clean Rag in case of injury
5. My waterskin
6. 1 empty Rucksack
7. 1 blanket (in which most of the extra items were stashed, wrapped around her like a sash that wouldn't get in the way of the arrows coming out)

Walking quickly, she weaved her way through the ever growing crowd. Trying to get to the Itoju quickly. She'd probably made Toscun wait too long already. She didn't need to be slow getting to her on top of everything else. Stopping in front of the entrance to the Itoju, she looked around and smiled when she spotted Toscun. Waving her over to her.

Ah, the cycle. Yes. That was deffinitely a way to look at it. Maybe in this life she would feel selfish about most things but in the next life she would be just a bit more selfless? She actually thought about this on their way further into the Lori. Knowing that it would help her keep her mind off of something.. or someone else. She almost jumped actually when Toscun did speak. She looked at the girl a moment, and sighed, looking at what she was looking at. The walk hadn't really been all that horrible but it had been a bit wearing on the feet.

She wondered how this girl had herself so situated that it would work out that she was able to carry all those items. She examined it a little and chuckled to herself. She would have never thought to put it together like that, though she wasn't sure she why she was worried about it now. She looked at Toscun's face and tilted her head a bit. "Here? This was a lot closer to the city than I thought." Her voice but a whisper, as she looked around. She was not quite an experienced tracker, so she probably would mistake signs for the wrong animal that Toscun would not have that issue with, or Toscun would for sure find the right signs at least before her.

For this fact, she was glad they were teaming up. Toscun knew aspects of hunting that she didn't. And she probably knew aspects of hunting that Toscun didn't know. One thing that Sen had just thought about. To get the most out of the pelt they were going to have to shoot into the chest or eye, The chest would still be damaging the pelt but at least there it could be possible to make cleaner cuts from the pelt from there.

She fidgeted with the string across her chest. Smiling as she looked around the sky. "We should hunt other creatures while we're here too. Supliment our suplies that we brought with us. She took a drink from her water skin and put it back where she had it. Some drips of water slipping down her chin and chilling her neck. Talking must be kept to a minimum out here, but the main problem they had is that they didn't have all the signals down and their meanings for large hunting parties. Even for just two, something could go wrong. Even the possibility of accidentally shooting each other.

And it also seemed like Toscun was one that liked to get hurt. She'd heard of the accident that Toscun had gotten into, though she had just thought of the problem it might cause... the smell of blood, if that wound reopened... She looked at Toscun a bit concerned. She mouth the words. "Are you okay?" Hoping that the girl would understand what she meant.

She smiled a bit, the slight bit of confusion was cute. Really, Toscun could have been Sen's sister with how they acted. Even though they didn't know as much about eachother as they probably should, Toscun had been around Sen for a long time. Sen always learning things about tanning from Toscun's mother. Though she still felt like she had little to no knowledge about Tanning. It seemed that she couldn't remember a lot of the lessons half of the time, and her leather working lessons seemed to take up more of her time and brain than the Tanning ever did.

Sen knew that learning how to tan would be the best for her business. If she could hunt, tan, and work her own hand made hides, she could profit a lot more from her own endeavors. Which was why she had taken Toscun up on this offer. They could find more animals to hunt and get Sen more hides to learn how to tan. And maybe, once she knew that Toscun had given her mother the feather's, she could ask for help with tanning the hide of their perfered prey this trip?

She smiled as the girl spoke of her father. So proud of him she was. And why wouldn't she be, he was one of the best trackers out on the fields. Sen's own father may not be the best, but he was still well respected within his trade. She was glad they had found the spot that her father had spotted the signs, it means that they were not too far from their prey, but they still had to be careful. In fact, their prey may already know they were there.

Toscun found them a good spot while Sen followed a little lost in thought. She absent mindedly helped Toscun set up their camp. She had found a good spot. Tall, beautiful and strong tree's almost encircling them as she looked around. They were pretty high up too. The tree's good cover, but at the same time, with their height advantage, anything that wanted to come running at them would have to do so up hill. Which was not so bad of a thing, only that at the end of their hunt, they would also have to tredge up the hill.

She let Toscun rest, she'd had a lot more to carry between the both of them. Though Sen wouldn't have minded sharing the weight. In this extra time, she took off her blanket and tied the rucksack and clean rag to her belt so that she could get to them easily if need be, and she slipped the knife in her boot, in such a way that it wouldn't hurt either her or the leather of her boots.

She had been ready for a little bit once Toscun got up and said she was ready to track. Sen nodded. She was ready for this game, a game of cat and mouse, or maybe cat and cat, as you never know what might be out there hunting you too. A hunter or huntress was taught early that they weren't the biggest things out there. Toscun was a fine example of this fact. That and their prey isn't just going to fall over and die. They are very likely to fight back if they feel to threatened.

She smiled a bit as she followed Toscun. Their steps as silent and careful as they could make them. Sen froze as soon as she saw the tracks. She smiled a bit, the posibility that it could be their intended prey, but at the same time, it could just be a creature of similar size and gait. The only thing they would be able to know about it would be to follow the trail and see where it took them. She nodded and motioned for Toscun to take the lead, drawing her own bow, and notching one arrow. Holding it in it's place, but not pulling back the string.

When hunting, you had to be ready at any time, the hunted could be aware, and waiting for a chance to escape. So you always had to be ready for a quick fire. The arrow that she'd pulled was one of her older ones, no extra feather lead. Okay, she'd had to try and keep track of this one. She looked to Toscun and started following her, crouching a bit and looking up in the air to see if she might spot any avian prey as well.

Later that evening.

Unfortunately, they had to bring their hunt to an end, as the sun was falling and it was getting too hard to track. They would have just stayed the night, except something about staying didn't feel right, like there was foreboding in the air. Sen didn't like this and asked Toscun if they could take another crack at it in a few days time.

Glad that Tosc didn't say no, they made their way back as quickly and safely as they could. Knowing the way back by the way the moss grew on the trees and how the evening light peeked through the leaves. It wasn't hard, it just was a long trip.

By the time the night fell upon them, they had finally reached the city gates. Saying good-bye to her friend, she walked the final stretch home,
trying not to look disappointed, in case her parents were still awake. To be honest she just hoped that they were asleep, kind of tired of pretending to be something she wasn't even in front of the. She had to keep on telling herself that she was okay, that the past was in the past, and that her failures now had nothing to do with back then.

Walking into her home she was relieved to find that neither of her parents were at least in the main room. She thanked Moseke in her head looking to the ceiling before she quietly tiptoed her way from the entrance to her room. Wincing every time she heard the wood beneath her feet creek.

Finally making it to her room, she opened the door as quietly as she could, and closed it behind her in the same manor. She exhaled softly, climbing into bed, she wished for dreams that would make her forget the hard work and effort that had fallen through, and hoped that the next hunt would be a much better one.