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[Ditana Tesoni]

40th of Spring, 514 AV: Afternoon to Sunrise

After leaving the abandoned mine that she had claimed as her cave not too long ago, Ditana found a small water source to get off the smell of concentrated clay from her fur, skin, and hair. She searched the patch of forest she'd been living in for a small animal, just something to eat to hold her off for another few hour, or to the next day.

She paused suddenly, sniffing the air before baring her teeth in a grimace while muttering "Gods damn it." and quickly scaling up a nearby tree. Ditana was still in her human form and had yet to change into her clothes, which would put her in a bad situation if what she was smelling was a male from the city nearby. She stopped on a branch that was hidden within enough leaves for her to look down at whoever was invading her territory without being spotted easily if they looked up.

[Eric Trillium]

Eric Trillium has made the small journey out of town, he was hoping to find some sort of poisonous or venomous centipede, so far he had no luck getting them at Sunberth. The plains were easy, no where for danger to hide, but now he was in the woods, and danger could lurk behind any tree. He turns over a large rock, and finds a ant colony, which he shrugged off as a pointless facet of the forest, they served no purpose for him.

He took his time wandering around, he didn’t sense any danger, which was probably wrong, since there was a bear like, ten feet from him.Ten feet up that was, he was more distracted by finally finding a centipede. He got out a jar, and started to focus his Djed, he intended to coat his hand in an exoskeleton made of the same material as his claws, to prevent biting.

[Ditana Tesoni]

Ditana watched the newcomer from her place on the branch above him somewhat curiously but mainly just wanting him to leave. She narrowed her eyes as she examined him, he looked like the type that would be eaten alive in the city. He even looked kind of awkward, but she couldn't put her finger on the reason why. With an internal shrug, she continued watching him like a hawk, waiting for him to leave so she could find something to eat.

Her eyebrow raised when he bent down to pick some bug up. Seeing something moving along his hand made her want to take a closer look. She lowered herself to another branch and looked closely at the exoskeleton finalizing along his hand. Even though she wasn't very familiar with any form of magic, she new what humans could and couldn't do with their body naturally, and self covering armor just happened to be on the list.

Ditana glanced around, trying to see if there was anyone less around before sneaking to a lower branch and digging her claws into the base of the tree. Slowly and as quietly as manageable, she scaled down backwards before jumping down and landing silently on the grass on the other side of the tree so he didn't see her. She was planning on following the magic user for a while in secret.

[Eric Trillium]

Eric only now sensed he was being watched, but shrugged it off for the moment, the centipede he found was bright and colorful, it had to be a poisonous sort, probably not venomous. It isn’t like you can milk a centipede anyway. Can you? No that would be silly, this creature was going to be mashed. He grabbed it with his armored hand, and slipped it into the jar, sealing it shut quickly, and carefully placing it into his backpack.

Now he addressed the looming threat. He first dispelled his armor, not something you want to concentrate on in a fight after all, and bared his fangs. This could bluff the aggressor off if luck was on his side, which is not usually the case, so he spoke. “Are you sure you want to attack a hungry Symenestra? My venom will reduce your insides to a delicious syrup, and I will break my bread over your corpse! Show yourself to me and you will be allowed to leave unharmed.” He was completely in panic mode, he had no heart for such confrontation, but talking a big game is a strength that has served him well.

[Ditana Tesoni]

Ditana looked on as the magic user put the centipede he’d picked up in a jar and put it away in the bag he was carrying with him. When he turned around and bared his teeth at her general direction she found it slightly amusing, her own fangs being more than thrice that size of his sharp canines. Though thinking about it for a few seconds reminded her that human canines didn’t get that long.

The mention of venom confirmed that this wasn’t a human, he looked a lot like one though. She has heard a few things about Symenestras from her time working on the docks, but didn’t know anything other than that you don’t want to be bitten by one.

She sensed a bit of uneasiness from him though, but decided not to take anyway chances and stepped out of the way of the tree so they Sym can view her more easily. ”A’ight, you got me, wasn’t plannin’ on attackin’ no one though.” she had her hands raised over her head limply to show she wasn’t holding anything and that she was barely taking his threat seriously.

After a moment she looked down and remembered a kind of important detail… she’s naked. Oh well, can’t do anything about that now, can she.

[Eric Trillium]

Eric looked over the girl, and was quite surprised. He figured she probably didn’t mean any harm considering she was… nude. Then again it could be a trap. He blushes lightly and responds “Look, you don’t have to keep your hands up… You can cover up if you need to.” He really hoped she had some clothes nearby, she was dry so, obviously she hadn’t been bathing, not that there was a significant source of water nearby.

He couldn’t help but appraise the young girl, she was naked for the gods’ sake. She had rough features and kinda looked pissed off that he caught her, maybe he was the intruder here? She was very lucky that Eric wasn’t in his breeding period right now. Very lucky. He was a first born after all, and she would make a fair and convenient surrogate. No, don’t think like that, you are better than Kalinor. Only breed with the willing damn it. Wait did she reply yet? Damn pay attention would you. Getting distracted by your damn instincts.

[Ditana Tesoni]

Ditana looked at the Symenestra crossley as she looked him over, finally pinning the awkward look on the fact that his limbs were too long, then put her hands behind her head and looked at something she saw moving in a tree that will probably be food later “Na, ‘m fine like this.” And after over a minute of silence she added “Stop starin’ at me, old fuckin’ perv.”

“What’re you even doin’ catchin’ bugs in mah part of the forest anyway? Plus that magic shit gonna get you ass killed if it weren’t me dat caught ya.”

[Eric Trillium]

He looks away “I am not staring.” He tried to find something else to look at and found the tree appropriate enough. “You have nothing to fear from me human, I’m not on my cycle right now, so am infertile, you are lucky that I am not, no one would have been here to stop me from...” He looked guilty, something inside his eyes might have said why. It was the Symenestra way. “Anyway its not much magic and the people of sunberth are not so stupid that they would lynch me for my ability to make a glove” He wiggles his fingers at her for effect.

“As for the bug, I am searching out poisonous centipedes to utilize in my poison brewing. Sunberth is not the best place for it sadly, I'm not even sure this one is poisonous.” He revealed the creature to her, and allowed her to inspect the jar, it wasn't valuable until after he used it anyway.

[Ditana Tesoni]

It took Ditana a few seconds to understand what he meant before she shrugged at him, “Ya wouldn’ have been able ta do mucha anything anyway.” To demonstrate she pulled her lips back in a snarl that revealed teeth strong enough to pierce through flesh and long enough to go through someone’s arm and scrape against bone. Then relaxed her face and took her hands from behind her head, showing off the tiny dagger-like claws attached to her fingers, “Think you woulda been in mo’e trouble than me in that situation.”

“People ‘round here are crazy, wouldn’ put it pass ‘em to killa bastard fa usin’ a lil bit a magic.” She put her hands to her sides and watched him take out the jar containing the (probably)poisonous centipede. “Maybe yall should go find some bugs an’ shi’d somewhere dey got ‘lotta ‘em an’ make dat poison stuff.” That bug… looked weird. Whatever, she’s seen weirder.

[Eric Trillium]

What the hell was up with that girls teeth? “What the hell is up with your teeth?” Sometimes Eric was a deep thinker, now was not one of those times yeah. Wait, those kinda looked animally, was she one of those shapeshifters “Uh, are you one of those shapeshifters? Not like, the magic kind, but the animal that looks human sometimes kind. And to answer your question...” He sighs and shrugs.

“Well it isn't like I can go anywhere in the world to peddle my wares, its illegal everywhere but here and the place where they eat people.” He sounded a little indignant. “Seriously, how dare these humans ban what could be the purest form of Symenestra art? Venom is literally the lifeblood of our people, with one bite we can reduce a human to a tasty slurry.”