Dances grimaced. [color=00aeef]"I'd been kicked out of my tribe a few weeks ago and I ran out of food. I was hunting in an oasis I'd found a few weeks before,"[/color] she said, tilting her head. [color=00aeef]"I was stalking a gazelle when I tripped over a tree root and fell into a pit covered with leaves and twigs."[/color] She shook her head. [color=00aeef]"Oldest trick in the book it is, but fall for it I did. I landed on one of the arrows that had been buried in the ground, unfortunately, and I suppose the hole was for prey. When the ugly Squat-Things found me a few hours later, they threw a noose around my neck so my brain couldn't think enough to fight, bound me, took my weapons, and threw me in a cage. Once the noose was free, I was too weak to move."[/color] She sighed.

[color=00aeef]"I'll not fall for it again. I fall for it once, shame on me. I fall for it twice, I'll kill whoever did it." [/color]She said, a faint spark of amusement in her eyes. [color=00aeef]"So, where is our destination?"[/color]