[u][center][h3][color=red]~Ruxen~[/color][/h3][/center][/u]
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[color=red]“Why am I getting the feeling that you’re enjoying this?”[/color]

Ruxen directed the question at Mikoto with a glare. Really, anything that involved the peddler was no doubt bound to end in some explosion or daring escape. Which, for the Beastkin who had just escaped imprisonment, was more than a bit excessive. All she wanted was a nap.

But she couldn’t complain much seeing as Chen was the one to have rescued her. So she had to follow him around for at least a few days before ditching him for that nap. Growling to herself, she padded after the two and walked beside them in silence, nose twitching to the bugs that randomly flitted by. The more they entered the forest, the more a sense of unease crept up onto her form…

[color=red]“Hey do you hear that?”[/color]

Ruxen suddenly paused in her step, ears twitching as they strained towards the direction they were walking in which lead to a massive clearing within the forest. Tangled growth surrounded them on all sides yet the ground underfoot had transitioned from hard dirt into soft ferns and tuft. 

What Ruxen had heard was a soft whispering, almost close enough to tickle her ear. But paying more attention now, she could narrow it down to the sound of…singing? Humming? Something distinctly similar to that and it only increased the sense of foreboding entering into the hound’s system.

[color=red]“Yeah…hey, just a suggestion. But we should probably get the fuck out of here. Like…fucking now.”[/color]

It would seem the prospect of greater adventure near-universal, the events of the battle in the sky near Arcadia coming to a close. But unlike the threats faced in Rivenwood, the vast and unexplored terrain of Arcadia would prove much more unexpected. Not too far from the wreckage of the crash site, the sound of grass crunching was heard with no mistake.

Yet if anyone was brave enough to turn towards the noise they would find nothing there. Nothing but the lingering shadow of their own curiosity. Weird. The ruins themselves seemed to be held aloft by a small body of water, the clear streams occasionally gurgling with something living within them. In fact, multiple pots dotted the water where nothing but bubbles formed. Truly a strange place…

[b]“Sienna! Linea! Where are you guys?”[/b]

The voice came from near the water bedside by the undergrowth was much too thick, the reeds too tall to tell where the voice was coming from. It sounded like Alex. No wait, it was Tori. Maybe Soma, the girl who had tried to help them out before? It was hard to distinguish who was speaking. And for the others…

[b]“Alex? Is that you?”[/b]

[b]“Tori, come closer![/b]
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