Khara looked off in the direction that Brandon had pointed, even if she'd already guessed she wouldn't spot anything. The ground wasn't entirely level, sloping downward and upward again rather sharply in various places. She waited a few ticks, straining to hear even a hint of what her fellow Chiet had caught wind of, but only birdsong and the wind tugging at her hair answered.
A small smile formed on her lips as she looked back to the man and Khara let out a short hushed laugh before quietly speaking. "If you ever get bored of teaching, you at least have a backup. The hunters would love you for being able to tell them things like that."
It wasn't exactly envy that coloured her words, but there was certainly something wistful about the way she spoke. Khara felt it too, as keenly as anything else. While simply tracking down animals for others wasn't exactly her life's goal, any edge she could get over another scout would have been just another thing that added to her possibility of moving upwards.
Stop daydreaming and go find those deer he talked about! The thought came sharply, not entirely with her own internal voice and Khara flinched slightly at the familiarity of it. Not that her mother had actually voiced such things when she was younger, but it never stopped her mind from dressing itself like her from time to time.
As the scout began to take the first few steps down the small ravine she found a small frown forming across her features. Deer didn't normally pass through areas like this. It was more rocky than the denser wooded areas of the lower elevations. They were far more exposed, which meant they were either heading away or towards something... or had been driven out from their usual grounds. Maybe that wolf pack? she mused to herself. It certainly seemed possible, they weren't that far away and startled deer certainly made better time than two Chiet trying to keep quiet.
As the ground began to incline again, Khara turned back towards Brandon. She'd been trying to keep an eye out for any of the usual visual signs of the deer possibly passing this way - prints, scat, disturbed piles of rocks among hose that littered the ground - but nothing had come up. She came to a stop just before a bit of exertion would be needed to reach the next rise, a sheepish expression playing across her face.
"Don't suppose you could offer me any tips on how to sense things like you can?" She whispered, hoping the continued smile she kept would make up for the lack of expression the hushed tones allowed for. Khara wasn't even sure if Brandon could tell her anything, he had made it sound an awful lot like skills he simply had, after all. Still, turning down an opportunity to learn something new was simply foolish.
A small smile formed on her lips as she looked back to the man and Khara let out a short hushed laugh before quietly speaking. "If you ever get bored of teaching, you at least have a backup. The hunters would love you for being able to tell them things like that."
It wasn't exactly envy that coloured her words, but there was certainly something wistful about the way she spoke. Khara felt it too, as keenly as anything else. While simply tracking down animals for others wasn't exactly her life's goal, any edge she could get over another scout would have been just another thing that added to her possibility of moving upwards.
Stop daydreaming and go find those deer he talked about! The thought came sharply, not entirely with her own internal voice and Khara flinched slightly at the familiarity of it. Not that her mother had actually voiced such things when she was younger, but it never stopped her mind from dressing itself like her from time to time.
As the scout began to take the first few steps down the small ravine she found a small frown forming across her features. Deer didn't normally pass through areas like this. It was more rocky than the denser wooded areas of the lower elevations. They were far more exposed, which meant they were either heading away or towards something... or had been driven out from their usual grounds. Maybe that wolf pack? she mused to herself. It certainly seemed possible, they weren't that far away and startled deer certainly made better time than two Chiet trying to keep quiet.
As the ground began to incline again, Khara turned back towards Brandon. She'd been trying to keep an eye out for any of the usual visual signs of the deer possibly passing this way - prints, scat, disturbed piles of rocks among hose that littered the ground - but nothing had come up. She came to a stop just before a bit of exertion would be needed to reach the next rise, a sheepish expression playing across her face.
"Don't suppose you could offer me any tips on how to sense things like you can?" She whispered, hoping the continued smile she kept would make up for the lack of expression the hushed tones allowed for. Khara wasn't even sure if Brandon could tell her anything, he had made it sound an awful lot like skills he simply had, after all. Still, turning down an opportunity to learn something new was simply foolish.
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