Tal needed to find a luxere, and for that he needed to hire a hunter. Unfortunately, the best hunter he knew was Noah, who was busy taking care of his pregnant wife and getting ready for the imminent arrival of the babies.
The second-best hunter he knew was heavily pregnant and not in the best position to be out tracking wild game in the Deepfrost snow, especially when the courier didn't think she had any way of warding off the cold the way he did.
So that left Sah. The courier had 'anonymously' left a package of spice cookies he'd cadged from his sister for the man in thanks for being saved in the Greatwood, but he'd been avoiding Sah ever since because it was fuckin' awkward.
This time, though, he'd finally gone up to the hunter's door to gruffly hire his services as a tracker on a quest for finding a luxere. Preferably one who could be annoyed into charging the courier and putting his Vest to the test. That was the easy part, really. Tal had a positive talent for annoying people into trying to hit him.
Which was a long winded way of saying they'd ended up following the tracks of a trio of luxere into the eerie Hollow Forest. Tal looked uneasily around at the clatter and clash of metal branches whenever the wind blew, and even Boreal snorted and shook her head every few minutes, staying on the ground with the wolves as they prowled wide to make sure their prey didn't escape off to the side.
The second-best hunter he knew was heavily pregnant and not in the best position to be out tracking wild game in the Deepfrost snow, especially when the courier didn't think she had any way of warding off the cold the way he did.
So that left Sah. The courier had 'anonymously' left a package of spice cookies he'd cadged from his sister for the man in thanks for being saved in the Greatwood, but he'd been avoiding Sah ever since because it was fuckin' awkward.
This time, though, he'd finally gone up to the hunter's door to gruffly hire his services as a tracker on a quest for finding a luxere. Preferably one who could be annoyed into charging the courier and putting his Vest to the test. That was the easy part, really. Tal had a positive talent for annoying people into trying to hit him.
Which was a long winded way of saying they'd ended up following the tracks of a trio of luxere into the eerie Hollow Forest. Tal looked uneasily around at the clatter and clash of metal branches whenever the wind blew, and even Boreal snorted and shook her head every few minutes, staying on the ground with the wolves as they prowled wide to make sure their prey didn't escape off to the side.
