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[center][color=darkgray][hr][hr][h2]Hunters and Hunted[/h2][/color][/center]
[center][color=gold][hr][hr][h3]Desmond Catulus[/h3][hr][hr][/color][/center]

Desmond's eyes opened, he took a breath in, and found himself...digging through...bramble?! 

Desmond subconsciously began to wince in pain, yet he found as he moved twisted in the bramble, if felt...good? It felt like it scratched just hard enough to itch the back, yet not hard enough to hurt. Desmond was curious, he began to rummage through the bramble, seeing what was within, yet before he could even reach in, he noticed something, his hand was different. He had a paw with extended claws, he turned his hands to him to see he had foot pads, with fur of black, and as he looked higher up his arm some white. Desmond began to rub his hands into the bramble, it didn't hurt, not even when he leaned into it, well, it did hurt, it just felt as if he didn't care.

Desmond then sensed something, a very powerful smell, he twisted his body to see a massive Direstork just a ways away. He tilted his head as he made his way over, every now and again pawing at the ground to see if the bird would respond, yet it looked to him. Desmond sighed, [color=gold][I]'This had to be Eshiran's Eternal Hunt, and we were sent here as prey'[/i][/color]. Laska forming as a giant bird was quite funny to him. [color=gold][I]'Her big beak matching her big mouth'[/i][/color], Desmond chuckled to himself.

Desmond began to cast his sight about, into the great wonders this world was. Great seas of green, winding rivers and deep valleys, comfortable hunting lodges, and in the very distance, a coliseum. Desmond pondered for a moment, [color=gold][I]'Where to go? Hm, we might be trying to reach the coliseum, that, had to be where we had fully reached heaven'[/i][/color]

Desmond nodded to himself before his ears picked up the snap of a gunshot. Multiple began to ring out as that confirmed it, this was the Eternal hunt, and they were in prey. Desmond gritted his teeth, it would be easy to fight if they were other animals, yet they were a Direstork, a large bird no doubt, yet it was not a beast who was intimidating, and a Honey badger. As a Honey badger, they can be fierce, yet being the size of a small child didn't do any favors.

Desmond began to look around, they needed to survive, and hopefully find a way to get a more appropriate physical form. 

Desmond the Honey badger turned to Edyta the Direstork as he made multiple reverberating whiles and squeaks, [color=gold][I]'If we show up at a Lodge, they'll maybe think twice in shooting us'[/i][/color], as he began to move towards one of the lodges. They needed to survive, this is the only chance they had in doing this, so they needed to do this smart. First, they needed to figure out where the shots were coming from, then they need to move to a place with more people. They may be hunters, however, if they show human signs in a place where the hunters may not fire, it could give them some way to find what they needed to do here.