[indent][h2][i][color=Purple]~   ♥   Nina Sari   ~[/color][/i][/h2][/indent]
When Nina woke up, she felt like she had only slept for 5 minutes, though it probably had been at least an hour. As much as she wanted to close her eyes and curl back up, a rotting smell wouldn't let her. The smell was sickly sweet, and after a minute she realized that the core form the fruit she had eaten earlier was the source. [color=purple]"God, i'm such an idiot!"[/color] She spoke out loud, clapping a hand over her mouth immediately. She picked up the rotting core and peeked out of her little alcove to see if there was anyone nearby who could have heard her.

Thankfully, there wasn't. She sighed silently and crawled out onto the path, walking quickly towards the lake. She would throw the core into the water, and hopefully the smell would dissipate soon enough, but until the smell was completely gone she couldn't go back to her hiding place. Once she had watched the fruit's core sink to the bottom of the lake, she looked around for a place that was a little less in the open. Maybe she should have tried to go into the forest in the other direction from the lake, it would have been easy enough to hide there, among the foliage.

But no. She was here now, and the paths to anywhere else were too dangerous. Too much of a chance that someone would see her, and too little space to run or fight back properly. She pulled her jacket hood up and started walking around the perimeter of the lake, her head down so her face couldn't be seen. After walking a little way, she found a place on the shoreline where the rocks were tall enough that if she sat with her feet in the water, she was only visible from directly behind. With the hood of the jacket up, no one who saw her should be suspicious enough to bug her, hopefully. 

She listened carefully to the sounds of the few monsters who walked by as she tried to think of how long her hideout would be unsafe to return to.

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[indent][h2][i][color=f6989d]~   [color=white]♥[/color]   Isa Nikolai   ~[/color][/i][/h2][/indent]
Isa smiled, if even just a little. [color=f6989d]"Yeah, that's great Dorkle. That you wanna help. And I really, appreciate the offer, but I can't let you."[/color] She sighed, not wanting the a-dork-able monster to misunderstand why she said no. [color=f6989d]"It really is getting out of hand, and the royal guard [i]should[/i] be on top of things. But, there are so few of us and there are so many other things that need to be done 24-7 that we're too spread out to spare anyone to go hunting for humans."[/color]

[color=f6989d]"So, even though we could use a little help, we can't allow anyone who hasn't been trained to fight to put themselves in that kind of danger."[/color] Isa backed off from the counter a little, her face half-serious, half-sad. [color=f6989d]"Even I'm supposed to be patrolling around the lake right now, but when I found the dust I rushed here to start warning people to stay away from that area. I have to go back, so can you tell everyone you see to stay away from the lake area until the human is found for me please? I'll be telling people on my way back, too."[/color]