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[color=4BE2A3][h3]Naija[/h3][/color]
[color=4BE2A3]Lvl[/color]: 1
[color=4BE2A3]Day[/color]: 1
[color=4BE2A3]Location[/color]: outside the Demon lord's Castle
[color=4BE2A3]Speaking with[/color]: Garrett[@Simple Unicycle], Mario [@Holy Soldier], Fox McCloud[@Etherean Fire]
[color=4BE2A3]Mentions[/color]: none
[color=4BE2A3]Word Count[/color]: 1,087
[color=4BE2A3]Seed deployed[/color]: 1 Napple Seed
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Naija watched and listened with increasing aggravation as fox simply dictated to her team a plan as if he was the leader. Said plan also seemed like a poor idea, in her mind exploring such a massive castle separately was a recipe for disaster, they would get lost, have no means of coordinating (Naija was not familiar with the coms devices that let fox perform such operations with his own team and still keep in touch, which would have made the plan make a lot more sense to her) and inevitably blunder into fights on their own that would require the help of the others. His rather flustered conclusion however, duld her anger at him, It was quite adorable really, he had simply got caught up with his idea and his enthusiasm had lead him astray. His plan did indicate the strengths of the various team mates far better than they themselves did though and for that she was thankful. Mario was the kind of person who could and would get right into the thick of things, fox thought himself similarly capable but also capable of keeping an eye on the big picture simultaneously, while Garrett was stealthy and could run interference on anyone who would try and sneak up on them.

”[color=4BE2A3]I will take all that into consideration, though I would prefer if we stay in shouting distance of one another rather than all going in different doors. The basic setup of our forces sounds sound though[/color]”

Then there was Garrett, pockets were not a thing under water, they would only cause drag, but she got his meaning. He was a thief, in what kind of a world was a thief a hero she wondered. Shure she had engaged in looting the ruins of civilisation but that was different, the owners were long dead, or were so once she had delivered them from their fates worse than death. If he could stay on task for the most part she would not be opposed to him collecting a few ‘souvenirs’ but it was a bit odd to send someone like that into a saving the world situation.

”[color=4BE2A3]Just make sure you're there when we need you and not busy looting when the time comes for us to fight[/color]”

She grinned at Mario when he was surprised about the rock, glad to have surprise him, but her mood soured once again as she was referred to simply as ‘fish girl. again. 

”[color=4BE2A3]Mario, my name is Naija [/color]” she said rather exacerbated

She was not getting the respect she should as leader, sure she was small in comparison and they were all well renowned, bould, handsome heros…  Naija was not handling meeting more people very well when it came to dealing with the fact that almost everyone new she had met was attractive. As a result of being distracted by being around people who did not want to kill her on sight, an unusual state of affairs for her, the appearance of so many that did certainly was a rude awakening back to the dangerous reality of the situation they were in. 

She let out a gasp at the size of the detachment rising from the castle, 30 winged women like those that had been with the general rose along with the large demon lord. One the one hand the flight of him and his guard was intimidating as they filled the dark sky, but on the other his tiny wings were silly and she had fought larger beasts and made armor out of their hide in her ocean home. She watched as they began to fly out of the castle rather more concerned at the number of valkyries than the presence of the demon lord, so many attacks would be tricky to dodge. She was not confident in their ability to take on them all at once, but they had the tree cover and they only needed to stall and not engage in a pitch battle to kill them all. 

”[color=4BE2A3]ok planning session is over apparently and unfortunately  I cannot fly or shoot at the moment so it is up to one of you to get their attention. If they don’t all come down to engage us we are going to harry them all the way to the other castle. If they come down try to stay hidden from the main force, hopefully they send down a small detachment first and we can get used to fighting alongside one another before the rest come down. We follow the basics of Fox’s plan but stick together: mario in front, me and Fox on the flanks and Garrett you cover our asses. Fan out and get ready to hit anyone who comes to investigate[/color]” 

She paused a moment before adding

”[color=4BE2A3]Also let’s see if we can take one alive, they wanted samples of the virus right? I assume his guards would have been around him long enough to get infected so we tie one up and bring her back with us. It would also be nice to see if there’s physical differences between the generals valkyries and these ones so we can spot the infected at a glance in future.[/color]” 

Because when it came down to it ambition was not an easy tell when it came to identifying the infected and Naija was a little bit concerned that maybe they could be duped in the future by an infected to fight someone they claimed was infected, for all they knew that was happening now but it wasn’t like they could just ask the demon lord if he was infected.

She briefly hopped down from their tree and retrieved a Napple Seed from her inventory, dug a small hole in the soil and planted it in a small sunbeam that broke through the treeline. Naija had never gardened before but this was quite an interesting idea, growing food some place specific rather than hunter gathering like she did, she would need to look into this when they returned to platform city. Perhaps she would set up some kind of piece of land with specific plants to grow ingredients, it would be much simpler than combing the seabed for patches of vegetation that might contain the right type of plant. 

She then hopped back up to a nearby tree to watch the sky, dragging her rock up with her and lodging it in some of the branches, ready to leap out at anyone who came down to investigate their team firing upon them.