[i]Hunt for Answers[/i]

As Kaldora urged her steed to ride away from the incoming beast Zouyu launched himself at the beast. She had hoped that the gardener would be able to soften up their weakened prey even more before they got round to trapping it, but much to her delight Zouyu went above and beyond her expectations, trapping the beast in a cage of bone and binding its tusks with druidic magics.

[color=Crimson]”Goodness me darling, that was quite the stellar performance!”[/color] Kaldora called as she approached the boy and their captured quarry [color=Crimson]”I’ll get it under my spell right away.”[/color]

“Aye nice work lad!” Arthanar said as he and the rest of the hunters (who added their cheering to his) approached the trapped beast “And dinny worry about stealing [i]our[/i] thunder, making it weak's all we where needin tae do anyway. It’s the trappers you gotta worry about who'll have set up their ambush in the forest for nothing. Ye’d best watch your step till we get back lestt you end up hanging upside down in a snare trap!” he joked before directing a few of the hunters back towards the forest to tell the support teams there that the battle had been won and that they should begin packing up their things.  

As Arthanar got everyone else in order Kaldora dismounted and then carefully approached the beast front on, making sure to stay within the narrow cone where it had binocular vision. Her eyes glowed a bright crimson as she locked eyes with the beast, using a combination of the [Dominate Beast] and [Vampiric Enthrallment] skills known as [Enthrall Beast] to gradually begin stripping way at its resolve. By the time she reached it and gently laid a hand on it’s snout the trapped and heavily wounded beast was completely under her spell.

[color=Crimson]”“Shshshshsh its ok”[/color] she spoke softly to it as she gently pet the beast before telling it that [color=Crimson]”You belong to the beast pens now, and we look after our own.”[/color]

With her free hand she indicated for the other beast master's to approach. When they did so they laid their hands upon the creatures wounds and cast [First Tier Magic: Bestial Regeneration] upon it, causing the many wounds that had been inflicted upon it gradual heal shut.

[color=Crimson]“There we go. All better.”[/color] Kaldora said, before petting the beast a final time before standing and returning to her mount. The other beast master’s following her lead, but not before a few of them paused briefly to lick the blood of their gloved hands.

[color=Crimson]”You can let it go now.”[/color] Kaldora told Zouyu as she mounted her horse, before adding [color=Crimson]“It will obey anyone for the chateaux at the moment, so if you’d like to ride them back your more than welcome too.”[/color]

After the beast had been captured and the hunting party had gathered back together (with Zouyu receiving only a few dirty looks from the trappers) Kaldora spoke to the group, saying  [color=Crimson]”Well now that was an exciting diversion if I do say so myself, but we do still have a task to complete. Let’s head back and see how the others are getting along with rounding up those Gorgonbulls Zouyu found shall we?”[/color]

After she received a course of agreements the hunt set off back towards their camp at a brisk trot, the vampires chatting noisily to each other about a dozen different topics as they went. Kaldora herself road alongside Zouyu, casually making conversation with him and asking [color=Crimson]“So darling, did you enjoy your first hunt with us?”[/color]