Wry humor twisted the drawn planes of her face as she considered the Kelvic's words. "I would have eaten you, had you eaten my rabbit," she quipped darkly before the possible ramifications of sharing such an idea clarified. The reasons for their current situation unfolded in the space it took Lucette to explain her 'sacrifice'. The cat had no idea she'd been there upon charging the bunny; had she, any number of other scenarious would have taken place before those of the actual events. Maintaining a respectable distance between herself and the Kelvic, the proximity and confidence that the cat exhibited when Sai had offered her shirt reminded the hunter of her companion's formidable physical prowess, she continued her sidelong study. The woman was weakening, that shirt already sopped blood. Sai actually had no idea which way Denval was; before this exciting rendezvous she'd had a vague sense, an idea shared by Catabasis, but the tremulous sense of direction was the first to go when faced with being eaten. Shadows blanketed the forest floor, tendrils of Akajia stretching from the tall, thick canopy. Though the leaves and needles, even the branches and slender trunks, swayed in the unusually gusty summer breeze, not a glimmer of that big burning navigational tool broke through. The arrow she'd drawn on the bunny was tipped by nothing more than a straight point, little more than a practice shaft. The arrows they used on big game was barbed with four long razors, and the woman was something of a mid-size creature...so...though it was bleeding a lot, perhaps it wouldn't be so bad should they not make it to Denval any time soon. Running out of important life saving considerations to muse over, the Kelvic's final question finally had to be addressed. "No. In my experience, feline Kelvics lack skill and the ability to contribute to society. I know a Wind Eagle Kelvic that proves not all Kelvic's are like that, but I've yet to meet a cat that wasn't useless," Lucy's companion informed her with dry aplomb, turning the full breadth of those guarded eagle-esque eyes on her. "No offense, but you have no business being out here; you're lucky the hunter that got you knew enough not to kill you out of mercy, and isn't of the animal variety that would have eaten you while still alive." Having reminded herself of the dangers inherent to venturing from the safety of society, her gaze swept across the narrow trail they followed, scanning the grass-obscured ground at her feet and the dried dust under Lucy's. Not so much as a squirrel scuffle stood out from the rain cleansed pattern. Their voices would inform anything nearby exactly where they were, and though nothing stood out around them, even the birds sang as they should, there really was no way to know for sure what was out there. Erring on the side of caution, one of those wickedly tipped arrows smoothly fit onto the string and snapped into place. Sai carried the weapon casually in the hand away from the Kelvic. Though a few social questions came to mind, some stemming from plain curiosity regarding the nature of this particular exotic species, what found voice was on the practical side of things. "Do you need to eat?" The wiry redhead, with her limited experience with the workings of these magical creatures, had only observed that her sister's girlfriend, Sira, required massive amounts of food directly correlating to the amount of shifting she did. |