"We can try," Juniper answers, a little doubtfully. Cutting one off one lured tendril was one thing; extricating a creature already thoroughly ensnared was another. Add that to the terrified animal's thrashing ...
Deimos's magic makes short work of the tendril, slicing it off, and Juniper quickly retreats with the severed vine still wrapped around her arm. Unwrapping it from a safe distance, she offers Deimos a somewhat sheepish smile. "Thank you. I'll be more careful."
She stores the wicker woman's vine in her pack, pleased to have at least one of Safrin's requirements resolved. Then she turns back to the wicker woman. "Let me see if I can get a better look at what's in there."
Carefully staying out of the vines' reach, Juniper takes to the air and circles around the wicker woman until she finds the trapped animal. When she does, she pauses, hovering, her voice sad: "Oh, it's a bobcat."
The species makes her want to free the animal more than kill it; Juniper has shot plenty of deer, but she has a certain sympathy for the bobcat, as a fellow hunter.
Deimos's magic makes short work of the tendril, slicing it off, and Juniper quickly retreats with the severed vine still wrapped around her arm. Unwrapping it from a safe distance, she offers Deimos a somewhat sheepish smile. "Thank you. I'll be more careful."
She stores the wicker woman's vine in her pack, pleased to have at least one of Safrin's requirements resolved. Then she turns back to the wicker woman. "Let me see if I can get a better look at what's in there."
Carefully staying out of the vines' reach, Juniper takes to the air and circles around the wicker woman until she finds the trapped animal. When she does, she pauses, hovering, her voice sad: "Oh, it's a bobcat."
The species makes her want to free the animal more than kill it; Juniper has shot plenty of deer, but she has a certain sympathy for the bobcat, as a fellow hunter.
Juniper
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