MAEA
Maea was quick to shake her head at the question - a little too quick perhaps, because the motion tugged on her sore muscles and made her wince. That shift in his jaw was one she had learned to read as a bad sign. Clearly her attempts to reassure him were not working this time.
"No, I... I arranged for a local to come with. He knew where the Cloud Manta's were, and... well..." Maea flinched at his reproach, at the tone - so flat, so even as if it was all he could do to hold back - and again she swallowed. Felt a bit like a child being scolded for climbing too high into a tree... or perhaps a student gone off to attempt something that really should have required years of study. She supposed it was apt... Sunjata was her teacher, in a sense. He'd taught her to use the bow, after all. The very one she had taken along for this little quest of hers.
"I... shot the manta first," she went on, going back to explain the details. Perhaps that would help, would tell him she hadn't been entirely thoughtless. "And then he cut at it with a sword, but the manta knocked me over with its fin. And when I got back up, he'd stabbed it really deep, and it was falling. Would have landed on him, so I... I sort of ducked in between? To make a shield, so he wouldn't get crushed. It worked! Well, until the manta fell onto the shield. Then it sort of... collapsed, onto me.
"Too heavy," she rounded off, by way of explanation. A bit lamely, with a feeling that she wasn't doing herself any favors.
"No, I... I arranged for a local to come with. He knew where the Cloud Manta's were, and... well..." Maea flinched at his reproach, at the tone - so flat, so even as if it was all he could do to hold back - and again she swallowed. Felt a bit like a child being scolded for climbing too high into a tree... or perhaps a student gone off to attempt something that really should have required years of study. She supposed it was apt... Sunjata was her teacher, in a sense. He'd taught her to use the bow, after all. The very one she had taken along for this little quest of hers.
"I... shot the manta first," she went on, going back to explain the details. Perhaps that would help, would tell him she hadn't been entirely thoughtless. "And then he cut at it with a sword, but the manta knocked me over with its fin. And when I got back up, he'd stabbed it really deep, and it was falling. Would have landed on him, so I... I sort of ducked in between? To make a shield, so he wouldn't get crushed. It worked! Well, until the manta fell onto the shield. Then it sort of... collapsed, onto me.
"Too heavy," she rounded off, by way of explanation. A bit lamely, with a feeling that she wasn't doing herself any favors.
Lost in a world full of non-believers
Searching for smoke in a still water pond
Searching for smoke in a still water pond
BASE INSPIRED BY ODD <3
