07-21-2020, 03:17 PM
[font=trebuchet ms]The creature at the border, covered in hunting trophies and cloaked with snakes, inspired a strange sense of deja vu in Rin's mind as she headed towards him. She wouldn't have been able to put a name to his face, but somewhere within her memory, she had sensed a flicker of recognition. Maybe they'd encountered each other at a party, or during the blurry days after she'd first retired from being the Ascendants' Cleric.
Alternatively, maybe her brain had extrapolated incomplete information to the point of total fabrication, and she'd never seen this person before at all.
Nonetheless, the peaceful look on his face, and the way he'd stopped at the border rather than marching right on past it, meant he probably wasn't hostile- so he'd explain himself soon, she figured, and the mystery would be cleared up. Coming to stand between Clony and Aurum, giving a nod to the two of them as well as Marr, Rin then turned her attention to the serpents covering the stranger's frame. The slight movement in their forms, subtle but still there, indicated live snakes- albeit sleeping. She had to wonder if they served as familiars, personas even, or if he really had just tamed regular snakes to the point that all parties involved were comfortable with this sort of arrangement.
In either case, she was admittedly intrigued.
Glancing over the stranger's shoulder to check for movement in the trees, and finding none, she then took a seat and curled her tail around her paws. Watching the newcomer with her good eye, she waited for him to answer- once he had identified himself and what he was doing there, they could proceed.
Alternatively, maybe her brain had extrapolated incomplete information to the point of total fabrication, and she'd never seen this person before at all.
Nonetheless, the peaceful look on his face, and the way he'd stopped at the border rather than marching right on past it, meant he probably wasn't hostile- so he'd explain himself soon, she figured, and the mystery would be cleared up. Coming to stand between Clony and Aurum, giving a nod to the two of them as well as Marr, Rin then turned her attention to the serpents covering the stranger's frame. The slight movement in their forms, subtle but still there, indicated live snakes- albeit sleeping. She had to wonder if they served as familiars, personas even, or if he really had just tamed regular snakes to the point that all parties involved were comfortable with this sort of arrangement.
In either case, she was admittedly intrigued.
Glancing over the stranger's shoulder to check for movement in the trees, and finding none, she then took a seat and curled her tail around her paws. Watching the newcomer with her good eye, she waited for him to answer- once he had identified himself and what he was doing there, they could proceed.
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