[center][h2][color=F0E68C]Asteria[/color][/h2][/center][hr][hr]
Mei appeared to be entirely too involved in dissecting the lizard’s corpse and fiddling with its removed poison sac to notice anything else. Shaking her head at her sibling’s eccentricities, Asteria made her way towards their Mother, nuzzling into her to wake her up if she wasn’t already. She waited patiently in case Mother wanted to have her breakfast from one of the lizard’s corpses. Then, she did her best to imitate what Mei had done the previous night, and attempted to communicate with Mother. Asteria nudged the larger Dire rat lightly, walked a few paces away from her, her head swinging from glancing at her Mother to gesturing to the rest of the cave, hoping to convey that she wanted her to follow. [color=F0E68C]“Come,”[/color] she said, hoping it would help get Mother to do as she wished. Slowly, Asteria begun making her way to where the Dire rat family had encountered the pair of Wisps and another Dire rat the previous evening. Eventually, she picked up her speed, whether her Mother followed her or not, enjoying the wind ruffling her fur, the light jog energizing her. Unfortunately, the cave wasn’t an environment where one could take too much time to enjoy even life’s simplest pleasures.

When Asteria finally reached the location of yesterday’s unfortunate meeting, she stopped and used her sense of smell to her advantage. The most predominant scent was definitely from the two lizards they had killed there, but nonetheless, she managed to catch a hint of Edward’s scent and Ria followed it carefully. She tried to stay aware of her surroundings, but was most definitely concentrated primarily on tracking the other Dire rat down. And his scent led Asteria to the remains of no less than six dead creatures! There was a dead lizard, a pair of rats, a wisp, a goblin and a strangely coloured gelatinous spilling that was probably the “corpse” of a slime.
 
Asteria took it as a good sign that Edward’s corpse was not among these creatures. He must have truly had the devil’s luck to both happen upon such a group and survive the confrontation. Although she had recently eaten, Asteria was rather curios about what another monster would taste like and slowly made her way from corpse to corpse, trying to inspect each as best as she could to decide which one to try. The dead gelatinous mass had an awfully strange scent that she suspected was poison. The lizard was something she had already tried and as such it held no interest for her. The rats…She’d rather not do something so cannibalistic when there was no need to do so. The goblin she inspected much closely to see if it had any sort of a tool even a rat like herself could use, but it was pretty much naked…and incredibly grotesque. Offended by its smell and unwilling to taste it, she moved towards the last corpse, a wisp’s. Seeing it there only reminded her of what had happened the last night. But, she reasoned, it [i]probably[/i] hadn’t been a human. She couldn’t claim to excel at differentiating one wisp from another, but this one [i]probably[/i] wasn’t one of that pair that she and Mei had met yesterday. Unable to oppose her rising intrigue, Asteria sunk her fangs into the felled wisp, chewing thoughtfully. The heap of corpses here entirely lost her to Ed’s scent. Most likely, she would have to move farther away and hope she caught the track elsewhere. But which direction to take…?

[@Zeroth]