Revenge|Beastlands

[kiyukit]

LinLy was angry. VERY angry. She was stuck thrashing through the underbrush, her clothes were stained with blood and it was taking her far to long to get to Autus to get Ballah back.

She wondered, absently, if anyone had found Venbel's body. She was also wondering what color it had turned. The poison she had downed could have unperdictable effects, and LinLy had wanted to study them. Unfortunetaly, she was stuck in this stupid land of plants. And she hadn't even been able to find any of the ones she knew could be deadly.

[Northen Light36]

Echo retreats farther back into the shadows of the thick plants here, her ears and nose twitching nervously.

'This one smells dangerous, Echo,' her kitten companion, the silver tabby known as Wish, pipes up. His worriedly waving tail lashes the plants until Echo quietens the noise by lightly resting a foot on it.

'Shh,' she replies in the language of beasts.

[kiyukit]

LinLy scratched her hand on a bramble and shrieked in rage "HOW DARE YOU!" Ripping the weedy vine up, scratching her hand further in the process. "I hate this place. I hate it all, and I'll make Ballah pay for making me go through this..."

[Northen Light36]

Echo frowns at that, considering her options. Wish was right, this one seemed dangerous to her, which meant Echo wanted to keep an eye on her.

"Hi!" she calls, stepping out of the bushes with a friendly smile. "Are you lost? You look upset."

[kiyukit]

LinLy forced herself not to smirk, or grimace at the new comer. Putting on one of her many mental masks she replied "I'm quite lost. I'm trying to meet my friend in Autus, but I can't seem to find my way. That's why I'm upset." She returned the girl's smile with one of her own, a convincing smile that she hoped would make the blood on her clothes simply disappear.

[Northen Light36]

'Dangerous and a good liar,' Echo thinks, her discomfort growing with every passing second - though she hides the emotion with the ease of the experienced thief and liar that she is. "Autus hmm? Well, I'm not heading that way, I'm expected home very soon, but I can get you as far as Humontis. And judging by the look of you, you could use a visit to a healer."

[kiyukit]

"Oh yes, why thank you so very, very much. I..." Here LinLy faultered, her mind searching for a good reason she was covered in so much blood. "Got caught in some brambles... And I should be able to find a guide in Humontis, yes? I do so wish to see my friend again. We've been parted for some time now, and I only just recently found out where she is..." LinLy's smile became bitter, her mind growing dark with thoughts of suitable punishments.

[Northen Light36]

"It's pretty easy to get caught in the plants around here isn't it?" Echo comments, smiling as though she believes what LinLy is saying. "And sure, you'll have no problem finding a guide there." 'Except you won't be able to pay them after I take your coin purse and I plan to have a little whisper into ears of the monks.' she adds silently.

[kiyukit]

LinLy forced her mind from her plots as the girl spoke again. "Oh, oh that's good. Ooops! It seems I've forgotten my manners! I'm LinLy." She stuck her hand out, cursing whoever had decided that touching was a good thing to have when greeting someone.

[Northen Light36]

"I'm Lark," Echo lies. "Uh, I'd shake but... Well, I've got claws and you look like another cut might cause you to bleed to death." She gives the other girl a friendly smile and picks Wish up. "This is my companion, Sliver. Well, follow me. You're not too far from the city really." With that she bounds off towards the city. "So, where are you from?" she asks.

[kiyukit]

"Lark. That's a nice name," for a moment, LinLy's act slipped and her bright smile turned sinister, before she regained control. "I'm from... The Beastland's actually. Though I've been staying with another friend for a while. But she had an... accident. And I found out where my dearest friend was staying, so I set off to find her." LinLy forced herself not to smirk as she spoke, but the humor of calling what happened to Venbel an accident did get to her.

[Northen Light36]

"Lair," Echo thinks grimmly, leading the way to Humontis' main city... and subtly trying to slice through the cords binding LinLy's money bag to her belt.

[kiyukit]

LinLy, with the blindness of one consumed by rage, didn't notice a thing that was going on around her, simply following the young woman and plotting what she would do to Ballah when she caught up with her.

[Northen Light36]

Echo slips the pouch into a hidden pocket and leads Linly to the city gates. "Here we are!" she annouces with forced cheer. "See? You hadn't gotten too lost."

[kiyukit]

"Oh! Thank you SO much! I don't suppose you could show me where to hire a guide? I do SO need to get to Autus!" LinLy gushed, all the time wanting to strangle her guide. But even more then that, she wanted to get to Ballah, and teach her never to run away again.