[b]The Second Night: Cat and Mouse[/b]
[i]9:00 PM[/i]
The forest is especially still tonight. Since Nate's corpse had been found, It would have seemed the Raxomajump had receded. But now, a presence could be felt. Something deadly. Was the forest too still?
[spoiler]Open, and whoever can figure out the pun in the title gets a pistol.[/spoiler]
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There could be many more traps on the hill. On the top, a man crouches on a rock, holding a spear.
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[b]Anthony slowly approaches, pistol trained on the man's head.[/b]
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A log with metal spikes on it flies out of a bush and they sink into Anthony's kneecaps.
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"Agh! D-Damn it!" [b]He pulls the spikes out of his knees, and lights a torch. He burns the wounds on his knees, cauterizing them. He gets back up, and tries to spot any more tracks. He can walk, but not as good as before.[/b]
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Edited by VertheAlt: 12/21/2015 3:30:03 PMThe man runs down the hill, zigzagging around trees for no reason. He gets down to Ember. The man has back wavy hair, ice blue eyes, is tanned with giant scars running across his face.
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"I'll be fine. It'll just hurt for a few days. It's a good thing I know how to treat wounds. Do you happen to have a plant of the Vera genome?"
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Edited by VertheAlt: 12/21/2015 2:56:03 AM"I may have it back at Bastion. Layla is holed up there, bawling her eyes out."
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"Layla?! You know her?!"
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"Yeah, she's my sister."
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"Wait... What's your name?"
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"Aaron Sawyer, Paladin."
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[b]He smiles.[/b] "Do you know a man named Andrew Raidriar?"
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"I do."
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"Then it is you. I've heard a lot about you, Sawyer."
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"Good things?"
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"Mostly."
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"Heh. Specifics?"
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"I'll tell you what he said later. Or we can wait for the exam to be over, and he can tell you himself. He's joining FN after the exam."
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Sawyer looks pleased. "Great. How did he get here?"
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"You know that look he gets in his eyes when he starts to fight? How he kinda just loses his mind, a bit. It's like there's nobody there anymore... He's changed since when I last saw him. As if he would kill in an instant. War changed him, and not for the better. He's shown... Prowess in battle. When I say prowess, I mean total annihilation."
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Sawyer's smile dies. "Then it makes sense why he'd come to my team. How's Kara?"
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"Not sure. I think she's doing good."
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"Glad to hear it. Her niece, Six, just crash-landed here."
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"I know. I already know her."
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"She's nice. How do you know Raidriar?