[color=ed1c24][center][h2]Akeno[/h2][/center][/color]

Today was just a day of new and unpleasant experiences apparently.

What did it feel like to have information suddenly and forcefully placed into your brain? It wasn’t a question Akeno had ever had a reason to ask herself, even though she had seen things like the Matrix and other sci-fi stuff where it could and did happen; she just wasn’t the type to think about that type of thing. Movies were a very surface level thing for her; if it wasn’t on screen it wasn’t worth thinking about.

But if she had thought about it, maybe she would have thought that it would hurt? She could imagine having that much information inserted all at once would be an overstimulating experience that would give you a headache or a migraine. Or maybe it felt like nothing at all and you didn’t even think about it until the next time you, well… thought about it and the information was just there.

As it turned out, it felt like neither of those things. It didn’t hurt exactly, but it wasn’t subtle either. The information she had just received about her new skill, both a brief description of it and also, weirdly, the physical steps she needed to take to use it, were insisting themselves to the forefront of her mind like an intrusive thought. The knowledge making absolutely sure that she knew that she knew this now. Try as she might she couldn’t [i]not[/i] think about Fire Bolt for a few seconds before the feeling faded away.

Annoying, especially when other people were talking around her.

Akeno sat in silence for a while, letting the information recede back into her mind and letting herself catch-up on everything that had been said in the meantime. Two new Orcs had arrived, dragging the corpse of some snake-like looking thing into their camp and asking to use their fire to roast it. Like the last Orc, Esfir did not extend an invitation for them to join their group, instead offering them the use of what was left of their camp in a pointed [i]un-invitation[/i] before making to leave. One of the new pair either didn’t catch the hint or chose to ignore it and asked to join them instead.

Many hands made light work, like they’d said, but it also meant they would need to hunt more to fill the quota for all of them. There was a balance to that; add too many people and you wouldn’t make the fights any easier than they already were, meaning all you had were more mouths to feed. Their arrangement was working so far with four, there was no guarantee it would still work with six. It was Esfir’s say though; she wanted to be in charge, so this was her responsibility.

For now, she just focused on what she needed to do for the next step of their quest; which was, apparently, prepare for a fight with something called a Camazotz. Something nocturnal which spent its days in a cave and only came out at night. The big Orc back at camp had apparently given some kind of cryptic warning about that, but the others couldn’t figure out what.

[color=ed1c24]“If it’s nocturnal, doesn’t that mean it can see in low light? Ambushing them while they’re asleep is great, but if they wake up we’ll be fighting them in a dark cave where they can see and we can’t.”[/color]

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