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[feathered_earth]

Characters: Cara (feathered_earth), Renae (artistic_spaz), and Helios (firacrux)
Date/Time: June 15th, morning
Location: Crystala, mainly
Rating: PG (maybe 13 depending on a CERTAIN SOMEONE'S foul mouth)
Summary: Cara enlists some help in searching for Tatsu.

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[artistic_spaz]

"Off his bed! You know he'll just sneeze himself all night." Renae lifted the whining kitten and deposited the bundle of fur onto her own bed before reaching for the door.

"Hey, Cara! Come on in." She almost thought to ask if Tatsu had returned, but if she was here on schedule for Crystala...well, that answer was evident. "I just need to grab my stuff, and then I can go. I'll be quick--oh, and that's my new kitten--who won't stay off Helios' bed. Bad kitty!" More kitten protests, as Renae moved her away from the bed yet again.

[firacrux]

"Ah Hyne, again?" Came the irritable grumble from the other side of the house. Every time he went to sleep he got a nose full of cat hair, and woke up unable to breathe. It was starting to get really annoying.

Helios came lumbering up behind Renae, looking a little red-eyed and irritable about the sneezing. He was otherwise prepared, though. Sword swung up to balance lightly on his shoulder and a confident smirk placed on his face, of course they'd find Tatsu. Tatsu just liked to get mauled or chase people around as a dragon, that was all.

"Never been to Crystala before, what're we expectin'?"

[feathered_earth]

"Hi there," said Cara, unable to help grinning at the kitten's antics. Poor Helios--it was a cute little thing, though. Speaking of, here was Helios now, looking entirely un-worried. Cara was starting to feel slightly silly over last night... except that Tatsu hadn't come home and hadn't written in the journals.

"It's mostly a big, crystallized forest," she said. "There are some monsters that roam around there, but it shouldn't be too much for the three of us to handle." Certainly Tatsu ought to have been more than a match for them. He'd managed to get away from Lezard...

...and that had crossed her mind, too. As far as Cara knew he was still being law-abiding, but that wouldn't stop her from asking him questions (or getting someone with more authority to ask him questions) but she'd rather check the more open possibilities first.

"Just keep your eyes peeled for them, and a boy with blue hair... or a dragon, too."

[artistic_spaz]

Giving up on the kitten for now, Renae turned her attention to other matters. She grabbed her staff and backpack, swinging the later over one shoulder. A moment to glance around revealed nothing forgotten and so she turned her attention back to Cara, perking up. It wasn't as though she had visited the place before now, either.

"Well, let's go! We're all ready now, right? Pfft, I'm not worried about any monsters either." She headed towards the door as the kitten padded over and whined a little more before bumping up against Helios' leg.

[feathered_earth]

Oh, so that was what sketching was... Cara quickly followed Helios' example and left the way clear for the mirror spider to have at it. She watched as the two of them clashed briefly, then the sketched spider vanished.

The real one, though, looked like it was much the worse for wear. Cara rushed in, jumping up on its head and stabbing her spear down through where she figured its brain ought to be--that seemed to do the trick, as it flailed around in its death throes. "Watch out!" she shouted, clinging to the spear as her feet slipped out from under her.

[artistic_spaz]

As it thrashed around, Renae scrambled back. She thought she was at a safe distance anyway, but better to be sure. Being knocked over once was more than enough.

She sighed when the spider stopped twitching, then immediately glanced around for others. "...do they travel in groups?" Hopefully not. Constant ambushes on their search would be annoying.

[firacrux]

Once the legs had stopped flailing enough, Helios moved in to sever the head the rest of the way from the body, just to be safe, and a little out of irritation but who could blame him?

"Let's just keep an eye out, Cara you've been here before right?" So she might know a little more about the monsters than he did. Helios retook his position at the front, not about to let the two of them get smacked around again. "Let's keep movin', before the body draws attention." In his experience monsters would just keep coming if you stood around too long.

[feathered_earth]

Cara stumbled a little as Helios decapitated the body and yanked her spear out of the spider's head. Fortunately it hadn't been too gunked up.

"Yeah," said Cara. "It's not swarming with monsters, but there are enough around to be a problem. I have a skill that can let us escape quickly if we run into another one though." She would prefer doing that to fighting and tiring themselves out, or being injured.

Under other circumstances she might have wanted to take the lead herself, but with no specific destination in mind it didn't matter very much. She just followed, looking for any sign that Tatsu was anywhere nearby.