[IC] instability

[MarshiestMallow]

Shakuntala nodded, finishing her food and standing, "okay" She grabbed her sword, and some clothes to change into

[manapool1]

Ness hid in a patch of near by foliage watching shakuntala, she was fascinating, something about the texture of her skin made him want to feel it, the weapon she used was amazing in it's beauty but seemed much like the large dagger he carried. He wanted to know more, but if a foreign creature enter's his natural environment he couldn't tell what they wanted, and they could create weapons like she owned they were clearly dangerous, he thought he was the only one who could smith in the whole universe, he was clearly wrong. After a few moments of gawking Ness decided to retreat. As he stepped back he fall over and scampered to get back up and hid again in the near by foliage, hoping she heard nothing.

[MarshiestMallow]

Shakuntala glanced about, on high alert, she held her sword in hand, eyes darting about, "Ziza? is that you?" But she knew it couldn't be the little creature, it had made too much noise.

Stepping towards the sound, she let her clothes drop, ears straining for any small sound, then remembering she had promised not to go into any dangerous situation alone, called out, "River?"

[manapool1]

Ness panicked, he wasn't prepared to let the new creature find him yet, but he had no option, he noticed it began to talk to the river and wondered if there minds were alike. He wasn't to sure but he knew he couldn't find out. He was clearly out matched in the muscle area and weapon wise she was the winner as well. His only hope was either to hid or run as that's all he was truely good at, the dagger was mostly for show. As her clothes dropped Ness felt himself blush. Her figure was that of the woman in his town, only in some way better, he couldn't explain it, maybe it was the fact that she wasn't always covered in coal dust or that her fur, or lack thereof, wasn't mangled and dirty, no in a way she was clean, something Ness didn't know to much about. If he wasn't smelting or using the forge to create better tools, he was usually using his time off to sleep. He never got to bath, no one did, they were to busy and being the only smith in town he needed to be up to the task as much as possible.

[GhostWing]

River looked up as he heard his name and stood. "You okay Tala?" He called, walking to her.

[manapool1]

Ness fumbled out his dagger, and began to breath deeply, panicking the whole time, afraid of the new one, clearly male and much stronger than him, he began to back away, the tall plants around him move only freaking him out more.

[MarshiestMallow]

"there's some one- " Shakuntala began, then dropped her sword as the plants began to move, she crouched, then sprang "here" She tackled something hard and soft at the same time, solid, which meant it wasn't just some plant.

[manapool1]

Ness began squirming as the lady grabbed her, his matted fur moving with him, his movement's tired him out quickly. As he lay there realizing he was bested and in there mercy he looked at her eyes, they were beautiful.

"please" he said before muttering a pile of jibberish

[MarshiestMallow]

seeing the creature wasn't threatening, Shakuntala rose, but still took the dagger away. "I think we'll need Fi to build another translator, cause I don't understand anything its saying" She said over her shoulder to River, keeping an eye on the creature, "It doesn't seem threatening, but maybe you should hold it"

[manapool1]

Ness scattered back, but made sure not to hoof it as he realized they were much quicker than he expected. He took a moment to cautiously move towards them he didn't have his weapon but he had very sharp nails and was ready to attack if needed. Instead of sizing them up, Ness stared at there strange clothes. His burlap shorts seemed petty and out of place with them, they were clearly more sophisticated than he was. If they really did have things better than metal weapons he wanted to know at all cost, even he had to be a pet.

His hunched over figure slowly moved over to pick up the extra apparel and hand it to the girl. As he raised it to her he grunted.

[GhostWing]

River darted around and looked down at the scruffy thing. "He could use a good scrubbing too," He said, then tapped his comm on. "Rory, wake Fi up. have her build a new translator or borrow Targen's." He raised an eyebrow as it held Tala's clothes out to her. "He actually seems friendly.

[manapool1]

Ness looked around, the things they said were practically a random assortment of sounds, there language was strange. He noticed a new item in the male's hand, what he made out to be a small rake, it seemed useless to him that's for sure, chances were they weren't going to drop everything and create a zen garden.

[MarshiestMallow]

Shakuntala took the clothes, blinking at the creatures strange behaviour. "Um, thanks" She said.

Rory sighed, "Great, send me to the tigers" He muttered, heading over to Targen and Fiera. "Please wake her"

Targen grimaced, then nudged Fi

[GhostWing]

Fi groaned and looked around bleary eyed, ready to rip something apart for being awoken on someone else's terms rather than her own. "What?" She demanded.

[MarshiestMallow]

Rory grimaced, anticipating her wrath, "River said something about needing a translator" he said

"Come on" Shakuntala said, grabbing the creature's arm gently "lets head back to camp"

[GhostWing]

Fiera growled and waved her hand, bits and parts jumping from her pack and forming a new translator. "Take it and leave me alone," She said darkly before settling back on Targen's chest.

[manapool1]

Ness began to struggle but realized it was in vain as he learned before. Instead he let her warm hand lead him on. He noticed that she said something in her language but he didn't really get it, it sounded like she wanted him to follow and he would do so.

[MarshiestMallow]

Shakuntala led the way back to camp, hearing Fiera's tone of voice, she lingered a bit before walking out the trees.

Rory quickly moved away from Fiera and Taragen, "Next time you want something from her, do not send me. She can easily reduce me to scrap metal, and I like living thanks" He handed Shakuntala the translator, moving as far from Fiera as he could get.

Targen cleared his throat, didn't say anything, leaning back slightly so he was comfortable.

Shakuntala quickly had the translator on the creatures wrist. "Hello" She said

[manapool1]

Ness clawed at the newly found braclet before looking at the girl frustrated.

"what is this blackmagic?" he said taken back by the fact the wrist item was making sound, tthe same as hers.

"hey, how did you do this? Are you a wizard? You must tell me your secrets ma'am"

[MarshiestMallow]

"Its not magic, black or white" Shakuntala said with a laugh, "God knows how Fiera does it, and I'm not going to wake her again to ask" She smiled, "We are...mutants I guess. Abnormalities with our biological make up. Right then. Why were you watching me?"