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Re: Chloe and Ashley (ranger and thetwo)
(I never did describe Nina, did I?)
Nina kept pace next to Chloe as they walked, the tall, thin, long haired blond girl looking queasy and unenthusiastic. "I could be worse.... I think."Her color didn't improve, even after Chloe's attempt to reassure her, but she nodded hesitantly all the same. Hopefully, she'd get over her fear once it really mattered. She'd certainly handled herself pretty well in the cafeteria, at least. As Chloe mentioned her missing boot knife, Charles calmly drew it from a pocket in his vest and handed it to her. "I found it yesterday, and just forgot to give it to you... Sorry."
With no further objections present, and a group nod to Ashley's agreement of their purpose in the area, they set off. They could see several other groups off in the distance, all heading in the same general direction but eventually breaking off or disappearing into the woods. The tree line loomed closer and closer as they hiked across the moors surrounding the Academy, the ground soggy beneath their feet and riddled with the boot prints of the other patrols. Eventually, they reached the narrow stream bordering the woods, the coniferous trees casting shadows upon the ground below. There was no path, but Charles calmly directed them a short distance East, and over an old, partially rotted bridge that crossed the stream. They entered the woods and followed an ancient, badly worn and heavily overgrown road toward their destination.
The path twisted, and the mod on their shoes caused moisture to soak through them and settle around their feet. It was dark, dank, and claustrophobic within the woods, and they often had to duck under branches that had grown over the ancient road, or climb over fallen trees, or pass any number of other obstacles. Tesnya missed one such obstacle, and the branch left her face covered in angry red scratches. Jenn at one point tumbled off a log, and ended up laying right next to a deer carcass that had been there for long enough to accrue a large infestation of both ants, and maggots. They'd had to stop for a short while to wait for her to finish throwing up, but Charles grinned wryly as he patted the girl on the back and said; "It could be worse. We could actually be going THROUGH the woods!"
It was a fairly miserable hour, all things considered, but also a fairly peaceful one. The road suddenly ended, and up ahead the visage of a solid granite wall loomed amid the trees. Glass windows, long broken and leaving nothing but tooth-like shards, stared like empty eyes through the trees at the approaching group. The doors of the church still stood, solid oak rotting only on the surface, but even from this distance the rest on the hinges was evident. The windows of the last structure in the town were all well out of reach, at least on the side facing them. The rest of the buildings that had once made up the village stood only partially, looking like nothing more than so many extra large gravestones. A skeletal human corpse was lying on its stomach in front of the doors to the church, its right arm extended towards the door.
"Right. Lets get this over with." Charles said, his voice brittle. Nina and Jenn both looked like ghosts, and even Tesnya had paled somewhat.
Chloe: HP = 65, PP = 56, EP = 65, Status = Fine
Ashley: HP = 49, PP = 66, EP = 45, Status = Fine
(I never did describe Nina, did I?)
Nina kept pace next to Chloe as they walked, the tall, thin, long haired blond girl looking queasy and unenthusiastic. "I could be worse.... I think."Her color didn't improve, even after Chloe's attempt to reassure her, but she nodded hesitantly all the same. Hopefully, she'd get over her fear once it really mattered. She'd certainly handled herself pretty well in the cafeteria, at least. As Chloe mentioned her missing boot knife, Charles calmly drew it from a pocket in his vest and handed it to her. "I found it yesterday, and just forgot to give it to you... Sorry."
With no further objections present, and a group nod to Ashley's agreement of their purpose in the area, they set off. They could see several other groups off in the distance, all heading in the same general direction but eventually breaking off or disappearing into the woods. The tree line loomed closer and closer as they hiked across the moors surrounding the Academy, the ground soggy beneath their feet and riddled with the boot prints of the other patrols. Eventually, they reached the narrow stream bordering the woods, the coniferous trees casting shadows upon the ground below. There was no path, but Charles calmly directed them a short distance East, and over an old, partially rotted bridge that crossed the stream. They entered the woods and followed an ancient, badly worn and heavily overgrown road toward their destination.
The path twisted, and the mod on their shoes caused moisture to soak through them and settle around their feet. It was dark, dank, and claustrophobic within the woods, and they often had to duck under branches that had grown over the ancient road, or climb over fallen trees, or pass any number of other obstacles. Tesnya missed one such obstacle, and the branch left her face covered in angry red scratches. Jenn at one point tumbled off a log, and ended up laying right next to a deer carcass that had been there for long enough to accrue a large infestation of both ants, and maggots. They'd had to stop for a short while to wait for her to finish throwing up, but Charles grinned wryly as he patted the girl on the back and said; "It could be worse. We could actually be going THROUGH the woods!"
It was a fairly miserable hour, all things considered, but also a fairly peaceful one. The road suddenly ended, and up ahead the visage of a solid granite wall loomed amid the trees. Glass windows, long broken and leaving nothing but tooth-like shards, stared like empty eyes through the trees at the approaching group. The doors of the church still stood, solid oak rotting only on the surface, but even from this distance the rest on the hinges was evident. The windows of the last structure in the town were all well out of reach, at least on the side facing them. The rest of the buildings that had once made up the village stood only partially, looking like nothing more than so many extra large gravestones. A skeletal human corpse was lying on its stomach in front of the doors to the church, its right arm extended towards the door.
"Right. Lets get this over with." Charles said, his voice brittle. Nina and Jenn both looked like ghosts, and even Tesnya had paled somewhat.