The Duo Explore

<font color='698AAB'>Nebai grins, surpressing a chuckle, <span style='color:#E4BB69'>{There should be another exit around here, they usually have two or three. One of us needs to listen for where they scramble when one of us freaks 'em out, and we can catch a few as they scatter.}</span>

She points down at the hole she's laying on, <span style='color:#E4BB69'>{Whoever it is, digs like crazy, and they'll dart for the other exit. Temkaja usually digs, because between the choice of getting her dainty paws dirty or killing something, she'll dig!}</span> Nebai would have laughed, but that would've tipped the stupid creatures they were hunting.</font>

 

<font color='698AAB'>Nebai nods, <span style='color:#E4BB69'>{Go ahead!}</span>

Then waits for Qamu to begin, watching and listening in the hole for any sign of movement.</font>

 

<font color='698AAB'>The rather thunderous apprach of the little beasts was something that made her smile; even if there was an exit somewhere else, a bunch were using this one.

The first one out Nebai catches in her jaws and brings it swiftly to sleep with a snap of her jaws on it's gentle neck.

The next three escape while she tosses aside the one she'd caught, but she catches the next two with a swipe of her paw, and trips them. Through the sea, Qamu should easily be able to pick out another, while Nebai leaps on the larger of the two she tripped, and with a snap of her powerful jaws, puts one more on the dinner list.</font>

 

<font color='698AAB'>Nebai grins, <span style='color:#E4BB69'>"Not bad at all! Now, lets see just how 'Kaja's doing with building that fire of hers."</span>

The orange and cream hued pendragon chuckles at the thought as she picks up one of the deceased trinthil in her jaws, and flips it up, to rest across her neck. Yes, a bit strange, but leaving behind deceased prey always lead to others coming for your hard-earned kill.

Another trinthil is picked up in her jaws, and she telepaths, <span style='color:#E4BB69'>{How many can you carry? I can manage another, if they're too big.}</span>

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Meanwhile, Temkaja was humming gaily to herself, plucking sticks up from the surrounding area, and circling stones together. She was reaching for some dry grass when a hissing sound erupted in front and just off to the side of her, and she freezes.

Temkaja looks down without moving any part of her body to see the tmuka staring at her. It wasn't moving, and neither was she.

<span style='color:#818391'>Nebai..</span> Temkaja whines.

<span style='color:#E4BB69'>What?</span>

<span style='color:#818391'>Um.. help..</span>

<span style='color:#E4BB69'>Why?</span>

<span style='color:#818391'>Because there's a big nasty tmuka under my paw..</span>

<span style='color:#E4BB69'>Hold on, I'll be right there.</span>

- ~ -

<span style='color:#E4BB69'>{'Kaja's gotten herself in trouble with a tmuka.}</span> Nebai sighs, and starts right off in her twin's direction. Truth be told, she was more scared for her twin than she was annoyed with Temkaja's lack of wilderness skills, at this point in time.</font>

 

<font color='698AAB'>\\ OOC: Oiy, sorry, first my computer died, then writers block. X_x;

\\ IC

Nebai walks over to her sister, spotting the venomous serpent without much problem.

<span style='color:#E4BB69'>Don't move, 'Kaja. It's a spitting tmuka. And close your eyes please. That's where they aim.</span>

To stunned to speak, Temkaja simply does as asked, without hassle or battle.

<span style='color:#E4BB69'>Now, honestly, don't move.</span> Nebai warns again.

<span style='color:#818391'>I'm frozen in place, Nebai. Honestly, do you really think I want to be bitten?</span>

<span style='color:#E4BB69'>Stay that way. And yes, knowing you, you'd do anything to give me grey fur.</span>

Nebai comes around behind the tmuka, and places her paw firmly on it's head. At the contact, the tmuka flips out, hissing agrilly. But because the movement was not from the front, he doesn't spit.

Nebai returns the pressure on his skull and forces him to the ground, pinning him there. She bends her head down, going to bite him behind the head to kill him, when Temkaja whines, <span style='color:#818391'>"No, no, no.."</span>

Nebai stops and stares at her twin, <span style='color:#E4BB69'>"Excuse me? ... No, no, no, yourself 'Kaja. You don't want to keep this thing, do you?!"</span>

<span style='color:#818391'>"Well.. I.."</span>

<span style='color:#E4BB69'>"Not on your life. Or mine, either."</span>

<span style='color:#818391'>"Oh, come on. I'm a big girl, honestly Nebai."</span>

<span style='color:#E4BB69'>"Why do you want him?"</span>

<span style='color:#818391'>"Because."</span>

<span style='color:#E4BB69'>"Really. Fine, then. But if you get bit and die on me, just remember I warned you."</span>

<span style='color:#818391'>"Thank you. I'll take care of him, honestly."</span>

<span style='color:#E4BB69'>"Sure."</span>

Nebai hands off the tmuka to her twin, gripping the creature behind it's neck, securing it's head.

Temkaja, grinning from ear to ear, follows Nebai back to the campsite, where Temkaja had gotten everything ready, and now all they needed was a fire.</font>

 

<font color='698AAB'>Temkaja roots around her bag, throwing things out of it like a mad woman. In goes the tmuka... and a moment later, he dashes off. With Temkaja following fast on his heels, to grab him again, and put him back in the bag.. and off he goes, once more.

While Temkaja was looking rather comical chasing the deadly serpent, Nebai sets to work, lighting the fire. Holding a hand full of grass in her paw, she stares at the end; concentrating. A second later, it bursts into flame, and she grins satisfactorily, setting the burning grass into the ring of stones and wood pieces.

Nebai looks at Temkaja a moment, then shakes her head, and looks to Qamu, <span style='color:#E4BB69'>"You see, that is the mark of a crazy 'dragon."</span>

<span style='color:#818391'>"I heard that!"</span> Temkaja shouts as she runs after the tmuka again.

Nebai laughs, then gestures to the four trinthil, <span style='color:#E4BB69'>"Let's get started cooking these things for miss priss."</span>

<span style='color:#818391'>"I heard that too!"</span> Temkaja shouts as she returns the tmuka to the bag.. and out he goes. Again. Again, again.</font>

 

<font color='698AAB'>Nebai nods as she picks up one and works to skin a trinthil, <span style='color:#E4BB69'>"Yep. She's the same age as I am, so she's gonna have some brains in her head.."</span> a devious pause. <span style='color:#E4BB69'>"I think."</span>

Temkaja was too busy chasing the tmuka to bother chastising her twin.

In a few deft movements after skinning the dead beast, she's cut off the head at a neck vertebrae (for 'Kaja refused to eat anything "looking at her"), has cut it open from neck to back legs down the belly, and removed the insides. These she tosses on the rocks around the fire: even if 'Kaja wouldn't eat them, she would.

In a small construction of sticks, one stick goes longways through the slit and empty innards of the trinthil to rest on two vertical sticks on opposite sides of the fire. Two trinthil could fit on each horizontal stick, so there were two set up.</font>

 

<font color='698AAB'>Nebai sets to waiting for the creatures to cook. Before she can ask Qamu what her thoughtful expression was for, Temkaja was shouting for them, <span style='color:#818391'>"Heeeeey.. heyheyhey!"</span>

Nebai raises an eyebrow, <span style='color:#E4BB69'>"What?"</span>

<span style='color:#818391'>"I've got an idea! A good one!"</span>

<span style='color:#E4BB69'>"That's a first."</span> Her twin mutters with a smirk.

<span style='color:#818391'>"Seriously, Nebai!"</span> Temkaja sighs irritably. <span style='color:#818391'>"Give me some meat, I'm going to see if he's hungry.."</span>

Nebai grabs a leg of one of the cooking trinthils, tears it quickly and neatly off, and tosses it to 'Kaja. The purple-hued twin catches this half-cooked leg, and between tapping the ground and waving it in front of the tmuka's face, attempts feeding and training it.

Nebai shakes her head at her twin, and forgetting her for the moment, she looks back to Qamu, and starts up a conversation, <span style='color:#E4BB69'>"Your meal alright?"</span></font>

 

<font color='698AAB'>Nebai nods at the confirmation of a satisfactory meal, then chuckles as the second comment is made.

<span style='color:#E4BB69'>"I have a feeling she just might stuff it down it's throat if it doesn't feel like eating it."</span> Nebai chuckles, reaching out and pulling off a trinthil to begin feasting all her own.

Chew and a swallow, she continues the mediocre conversation with Qamu, <span style='color:#E4BB69'>"Any particular reason you're out here? You didn't seem to have anyone else around, I mean."</span>

Nebai was slightly concerned for the young one's well-being. Nebai was following Temkaja to keep her from being hurt, but Qamu didn't seem to have any bodyguard of her own. Not that she needed one, per se. Just for appearances' sake.

The wiles of the world toiled hard at trying to nip your ego and bruise your hide, and the twins were fortunate enough to have each other to face the world together.</font>

 

<font color='698AAB'>Nebai nods, understanding the niotie's plight. She smiles softly, staring at the flickering fire, <span style='color:#E4BB69'>"If it's any consolation, I think you've rather been adopted by us."</span> she chuckles, <span style='color:#E4BB69'>"As a surrogate sibling, I mean. If you never find some place comfortable, or you're in the mood for some company.. odd company.."</span> here Nebai tosses a glance towards her twin, still chasing after the tmuka, <span style='color:#E4BB69'>"just put word out you're looking for us. We're always around."</span>

She tosses most of the carcass into the fire, but gnaws idily on a thigh bone. Temkaja returns at that moment, snatching up some things around the make-shift camp. <span style='color:#818391'>"When we get to the next place we need a bag."</span> she nods several times, grinning like a fool, <span style='color:#818391'>"I can easily keep him in a bag."</span>

Nebai flicks her ears and raises an eyebrow at her twin. She then looks over towards Qamu, <span style='color:#E4BB69'>"On second thought, why don't I just go with you?"</span></font>