isleofavalon | A Short Hunting Trip [OTA]

🧙 WHO: Adela & OPEN
⚔️️ WHAT: There's a certain amount of pride in hunting game meat for yourself, but this hunting trip doesn't go quite that smoothly.
🕒 WHEN: Sometime in Mid-May
🗺️ WHERE: Brocéliande
⚠️ WARNINGS: The murder of many, many dust bunnies

Maybe it was that she was that she was more used to this sort of thing, but there was something relaxing about just walking through the forest. It reminded her so much of home that it was a comfort, and even if her familiar was no where in sight she felt at ease.

Granted, she wasn't there just for a stroll, if the short-bow and quiver of arrows on her person were any indication. It'd been a while since she'd had rabbit after all, and something like that should have been more than enough for one of those.

The papers occasionally caught the red head's eye as she travelled through the forest, but the sound of movement caught her attention and she pulled the hood of her cloak up, notching an arrow into the bow and crouching low. She remained still, looking towards the source of the noise and getting herself ready to shoot at what was hopefully a good-sized rabbit. Though, if it was a deer a single arrow might not be enough to do the job. And if it wasn't a game animal at all... Well, she'd think of that when she found out what made the noise.

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Being in town around people always left the gunner feeling on edge. That was why she preferred the solitude of the forest. It essentially provided everything she needed to live while also avoiding those in the city walls who could bring about more inconvenient questions. Elza still needed to search out the former Master Latkje, but she wouldn't do that until she was ready.

Sounds of movement drew the gunner from her thoughts. From her position on a branch higher up in a tree, she waited for whoever had entered her area to come into view. The seconds ticked by and even without seeing the person she knew they were hunting.

Then the cloaked red-head came into view and knotched an arrow to her bow. Elza kept her silence and instead turned her attention over to where this girl was looking.

Relaxing back against the trunk of the tree, the gunner waited to see just how good of a shot this hunter was.

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Slowly, silently, Adela lifted the bow, and it didn't take a moment for her to let her arrow fly lest her prey get away. That arrow happened to pierce a bunny...

A bunny that immediately dissolved into dust. Which left the arrow stuck in the ground near where the dust bunny had been.

Adela herself seemed stunned, but after a moment she let out a loud groan, getting to her feet and making to get her arrow back. Great, there were false animals there?! That'd just make it harder to find her dinner...

It seemed like, in her dismay, she hadn't noticed Elza for the time being.

She watched quietly while the girl below her readied herself to take the shot. This girl at least seemed to have decent form from what she could see. Watching as the arrow flew through the air, she followed it with interest as it hit its target then the rabbit disappeared in a puff of dust.

"It's a shame about your dinner," Elza said with a chuckle. There was an air of ease oozing from the gunner while she remained leaning back against the comfy spot in the tree. Brushing the blonde hair from her eyes, she offered the young archer a teasing smile. "Better luck next time.

Adela seemed startled for a moment when Elza spoke, and she stared for a moment before looking away, her face dusted pink with embarrassment, "If there is trickery like that in this forest, I may need more than luck. From where I was, it looked as real as any flesh and bone animal."

She was quiet for a while as Elza regarded the girl. Whether it was in thought or doing it to unnerve the other was anyone's guess as she wasn't giving any indication either way.

"I'm sure in time you'll come to learn the difference," Elza offered. She was still learning much about this new world she found herself in herself but she wasn't concerned.

There she goes with her quietly watching again.

All right, apparently that was all the other had to say to her. Adela sighed, shaking her head before lifting her hood once more. It'd be easier if she blended into the forest a bit more, and bright red hair wasn't exactly the easiest way to do that.

But, before she left, she did look at the other, quiet for a while as she pondered if she really wanted to ask.

"... Do you know of a way to tell the difference?"

It couldn't hurt to at least ask, right?

Nobunaga's falcon swoops in and scoops up--

"Damn it Haguro," Nobuanga calls to his falcon, relatively quietly given the idiot involved, but understandable given that he's hunting too! "That's another dust rabbit."

Indeed, the falcon calls back to him something snarky, after the claws fail to grip anything, but the Demon King just rolls eyes. "You'll have to figure out some better way to hunt than just looking for movement. No, I don't know how to tell the difference either. Figure it out."

There's another snarky caw, even as the falcon moves back to land on Nobunaga's arm, which is also holding up a bow, his right arm holding an arrow at the ready.

"Yo," that's his only greeting to Adela.

"Is every rabbit in this blasted forest made of dust?"

Adela fell from her kneel onto her knees then, dragging her palm down her face before she made to stand back up. Perhaps she should have had a nicer reception for the man that had taught her how to ride a horse, but the fact that she'd had no luck finding anything was starting to get to her. She was starting to think the forest was purposely trying to thwart her...

"... Hello," At least she remembered to return the greeting, even if it wasn't immediate.

"No, there's plenty of game, I just wanted to see more of the monsters here. Haguro's favorite is rabbits. And I suppose since the Minotaur attack and mining, things are a bit dustier now. Are you okay?"

He doesn't move to help her though, in part because Haguro is still there, but also in case of her pride.

"I am all right, but I apparently need to develop a more discerning eye," She grumbled as she brushed off her trousers, not looking at Nobunaga for the time being, "Though I suppose any real rabbits nearby would have been scared off by you just now."

Nobunaga looked back forth between the bird and redhead. "Don't feel ashamed if you can't outdo one of the best hunting falcons in my world." Nobunaga sighed. "But don't think this means you're off the hook, Haguro. We're not switching to fish, and you're not a pet to get pampered like one." The falcon puffed up indignantly at that! Though it's caw was tiny indeed. Back to Adela: "It's possible you may have been tricked by the faeries here too. Though, they've been mostly friendly in my experience."

A distant glance. "Do you have a spear? Supposedly the boars are some of the best here. But you'd have to be much more careful if you're only using a bow."

"I have a sword, but I would rather not risk being gutted by a boar to begin with," Adela said, though she still wasn't looking at Nobunaga and was instead looking over her bow again. That the forest fairies may have been tricking her hadn't even come to mind before, but it was possible if there were creatures roaming around similar to the kitsune that one man had. Fries themselves could be quite malevolent as well...

"No kidding. Even with Heshikiri Hasebe, I'd rather not." Nobunaga didn't gesture to the insanely long katana at his hip, but being a named blade, masterwork, and gold worked into the pommel, perhaps she noticed it anyway. "At least not unless they're a lot smaller than in Japan, and I rather doubt it." And she wasn't that much bigger than Kitsuno, so!

"Are you hunting for food, practice, or other?"

He held up a hand, because he was starting to get the hang of what people didn't like revealing... Maybe. "I ask because if food, I'll help get a deer buck, knowing it won't go to waste. If it was just Haguro and I, I suppose I could give it to Masamune to make good use of, but it's too much to carry back from here, and would just lure out creatures I don't wish to deal with alone. And feeding Kimon seems like a bad precedent of offering sacrifices."

"I was hunting for food," Adela answered almost immediately, and for a moment her interest was torn. What was Heshikiri Hasebe? And what was that sword on his waist? That was interesting, but then again... So was the mention of getting a deer buck.

Nehra, when was the last time she'd had venison? It had been such a long time, and it sounded so good...

"Very well. It would be too much for me alone as well, though I am unsure of just how much aid I would be," Adela said as she approached, driven by both hunger and by curiosity. That sword looked so... Ornate. Different than what she'd seen before, but maybe there'd be time to look it over more closely later.

A Short Hunting Trip [OTA]

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