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Arania was surprised when Theo was left with her, H'kal leaving them. She put the miner onto the ground in a somewhat comfortable position, drawing bandages and the needed tools for treating him. She put her hands lightly onto the cuts on his back, and as they started to heal, she felt a burning pain in her back. She barely even flinched as sweat formed on her forehead, the rhythm of her breathing changing slightly. She looked down at his legs, and inwardly sighed. She'd be sore for a while after this...
She put a hand on each leg, and as the bones inside him healed, the pain was transferred to Arania's legs, and when she was done, her breathing wasn't far from heavy. She stood up slowly and looked at him.
"I fear that you will still be sore for a little while to come, but your bones are healed, and you should be able to work without too much trouble." She cracked her shoulders and pulled her hair behind her head, tying it into a ponytail. She felt hot from the pain applied to different areas in her body. Her limbs were aching, and that was when her sensitive ears caught a roar coming from the direction of their barracks.
"Seiyr, call me what you want, but was that not Rakar's voice?" A dread filled her at this, and she reached for her bow. She had not bothered to take off the things she had been carrying, having no plans of sleeping in those barracks. Her body just couldn't relax.
"I'll find a viewing spot. I am no good in direct combat aside from my speed, and that's hindered now that I've used healing..." Arania grabbed onto the windowsill on one of the many houses, and before long, the agile Nocturne was on the roofs, finding a position from which she could see the area that they had come from. What she saw made her freeze with terror.
Big, horrifying, man-eating bugs were all over the place. Arania, not being suited for combat with a sword, seeked into hiding as she drew her bow. She aimed at one of the monsters, the sharp, poisoned arrow cutting through the air and hitting it almost exactly between the eyes. The monster hissed as it fell to the ground, spasming with the effects of the poison she had coated the tips of the arrows in. She sunk back into hiding before the bugs could notice her.
She was filled to the brim with fear, but her body felt frighteningly steady and calm. Her hands weren't shaking in the least, and her movements were composed as if she was merely doing everyday matters. When she had waited a few seconds to calm, she shot another arrow in the direction of a bug with its back to her, standing on a building. The arrow hit between the shoulder blades, and the bug fell onto the ground, almost hitting a soldier in the process. She took a mental note to only hit those on the ground.
In all of the rumble, he noticed Rakar desperately trying to get the General out of a bunch of rubble, with Takeda and K'Jol protecting his sides. She noticed a bug coming from their one blind spot, slowly as if trying to sneak in on them. Her hands acted before her brain could, and an arrow pierced the creature's neck, just below the chin. Screaming, the creature fell to the ground, its body twisting and jerking until it lied still. She allowed a moment of mental praise to herself for having poisoned those arrows. The trick was something she had with her from her time in Viridos, where creatures were waiting to eat her alive any moment. Thinking back then, she had been better at fighting, but now all that she ever practiced was her arrow, and she was not sure of her footing in direct hand-to-hand combat with large monsters.
It seemed that she had not been noticed yet, and she took a glance around the area of where she was. It was shadowed and she was hidden behind a stack of boxes with a cloth pulled over them. There would not come anyone here and find her. She bitterly thought to herself that if she died, it would be the same situation. But she had accepted this expedition on her own, she had decided to follow Seiyr into a place like this, because they had a similar view on the world. They understood each other in a peculiar manner, and even without acknowledging each other's presence, both knew where the other was.
Frantically, Arania searched for Seiyr in the crowd of fighting soldiers, but it did not seem like the engineer had appeared there yet. [/dash]
Arania was surprised when Theo was left with her, H'kal leaving them. She put the miner onto the ground in a somewhat comfortable position, drawing bandages and the needed tools for treating him. She put her hands lightly onto the cuts on his back, and as they started to heal, she felt a burning pain in her back. She barely even flinched as sweat formed on her forehead, the rhythm of her breathing changing slightly. She looked down at his legs, and inwardly sighed. She'd be sore for a while after this...
She put a hand on each leg, and as the bones inside him healed, the pain was transferred to Arania's legs, and when she was done, her breathing wasn't far from heavy. She stood up slowly and looked at him.
"I fear that you will still be sore for a little while to come, but your bones are healed, and you should be able to work without too much trouble." She cracked her shoulders and pulled her hair behind her head, tying it into a ponytail. She felt hot from the pain applied to different areas in her body. Her limbs were aching, and that was when her sensitive ears caught a roar coming from the direction of their barracks.
"Seiyr, call me what you want, but was that not Rakar's voice?" A dread filled her at this, and she reached for her bow. She had not bothered to take off the things she had been carrying, having no plans of sleeping in those barracks. Her body just couldn't relax.
"I'll find a viewing spot. I am no good in direct combat aside from my speed, and that's hindered now that I've used healing..." Arania grabbed onto the windowsill on one of the many houses, and before long, the agile Nocturne was on the roofs, finding a position from which she could see the area that they had come from. What she saw made her freeze with terror.
Big, horrifying, man-eating bugs were all over the place. Arania, not being suited for combat with a sword, seeked into hiding as she drew her bow. She aimed at one of the monsters, the sharp, poisoned arrow cutting through the air and hitting it almost exactly between the eyes. The monster hissed as it fell to the ground, spasming with the effects of the poison she had coated the tips of the arrows in. She sunk back into hiding before the bugs could notice her.
She was filled to the brim with fear, but her body felt frighteningly steady and calm. Her hands weren't shaking in the least, and her movements were composed as if she was merely doing everyday matters. When she had waited a few seconds to calm, she shot another arrow in the direction of a bug with its back to her, standing on a building. The arrow hit between the shoulder blades, and the bug fell onto the ground, almost hitting a soldier in the process. She took a mental note to only hit those on the ground.
In all of the rumble, he noticed Rakar desperately trying to get the General out of a bunch of rubble, with Takeda and K'Jol protecting his sides. She noticed a bug coming from their one blind spot, slowly as if trying to sneak in on them. Her hands acted before her brain could, and an arrow pierced the creature's neck, just below the chin. Screaming, the creature fell to the ground, its body twisting and jerking until it lied still. She allowed a moment of mental praise to herself for having poisoned those arrows. The trick was something she had with her from her time in Viridos, where creatures were waiting to eat her alive any moment. Thinking back then, she had been better at fighting, but now all that she ever practiced was her arrow, and she was not sure of her footing in direct hand-to-hand combat with large monsters.
It seemed that she had not been noticed yet, and she took a glance around the area of where she was. It was shadowed and she was hidden behind a stack of boxes with a cloth pulled over them. There would not come anyone here and find her. She bitterly thought to herself that if she died, it would be the same situation. But she had accepted this expedition on her own, she had decided to follow Seiyr into a place like this, because they had a similar view on the world. They understood each other in a peculiar manner, and even without acknowledging each other's presence, both knew where the other was.
Frantically, Arania searched for Seiyr in the crowd of fighting soldiers, but it did not seem like the engineer had appeared there yet. [/dash]