01-29-2023, 07:12 AM
Things happened quickly, layering one on top of the other as Bird processed them.
Movement, the scent of wolf, and blood, and Bird's pulse still thudding in her ears, building toward...nothing. Bird flinched regardless, scowling at the younger girl as she looked dumbly around them, startled, and lost in equal measure.
She forced a measured exhale from herself, waiting for her initial reaction to pass through her so she could react more appropriately. Bird wanted to snap, but Bird had had the kinds of experiences, by now, to learn how to temper her temper. "Dinner." She said flatly, expression non-plussed. "But it's gone now."
She could smell the injury even through the mist's rainy overtones. Don't. Bird admonished herself harshly. This wasn't the Wasteland and she wasn't anything here, didn't have to do shit about anything she came across. If it didn't threaten her, it didn't matter to her. This, and everything she'd left behind, and everything she'd now encounter, wasn't her problem anymore.
"Guess I'll try the river." Not an invitation, but telegraphing her plan for food wasn't...not helping, either, if the kid could puzzle it out.
Movement, the scent of wolf, and blood, and Bird's pulse still thudding in her ears, building toward...nothing. Bird flinched regardless, scowling at the younger girl as she looked dumbly around them, startled, and lost in equal measure.
She forced a measured exhale from herself, waiting for her initial reaction to pass through her so she could react more appropriately. Bird wanted to snap, but Bird had had the kinds of experiences, by now, to learn how to temper her temper. "Dinner." She said flatly, expression non-plussed. "But it's gone now."
She could smell the injury even through the mist's rainy overtones. Don't. Bird admonished herself harshly. This wasn't the Wasteland and she wasn't anything here, didn't have to do shit about anything she came across. If it didn't threaten her, it didn't matter to her. This, and everything she'd left behind, and everything she'd now encounter, wasn't her problem anymore.
"Guess I'll try the river." Not an invitation, but telegraphing her plan for food wasn't...not helping, either, if the kid could puzzle it out.