These woods are nice for a casual walk or even if you have a more adventurous urge. Bubbling hot springs lie just around the bend, fruits can be found to suit every taste bud, and rumor has it there are talking Tali who can speak Lambastian! (+2 Precision)

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Postby Jaykobell » 07/20/2015 12:55 AM

"Ugh, I feel awful," Olive complained quietly, keeping his head low, but raising it just high enough to ask, "Alpha, why are we up this early?"

Althea narrowed her eyes, and Marzanna looked to her leader to know if it was safe for her to say anything. "Olive, you and the others were woken up urgently because we need to talk," Althea told the Ambia, and her stern voice made the Ambia pipe down; he certainly knew his place, but he just had to be reminded of it once in a while.

"Marzanna and I surveyed the forest during the night," Althea went on to say, getting to the meat of the meeting once Olive had been shut down. "We saw nothing out of the ordinary; we came across a number of small creatures, but nothing unusual or dangerous," she recapped, and there was a glimmer of confusion in the group as Althea told of a very normal night to them. "Except for one thing," she added, and within a heartbeat, the four Paragon went from confused to shocked; worried, if not terrified.

"What happened?" Mihovil asked, sounding positively worried; something a little unusual to hear from the happy-go-lucky Paragon of the pack.

"We saw another Paragon a few hours before morning," Althea went on to say, and while that, too, sounded fairly normal, what was to follow did not. "We saw a Paragon covered in blood feasting on the carcass of another."

The words had been crude and to the point, and to a clan that barely experienced any threats of that extent, the news inspired gasps, mainly from Eevi and Mihovil.
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Postby Jaykobell » 07/20/2015 12:57 AM

Olive grimaced, grossed out, and Suchart frowned, baring his teeth. "A cannibal?" he asked Althea, and Olive, who sat close to the Primal, turned even paler than his scales already were.

"It seems like it, yes," Althea confirmed, and for the sake of her small band of Paragon, she didn't let it show just how much the story made her stomach turn in disgust. Judging from the looks on her Paragon's faces, she could tell that they, too, found the news enough to turn their hearts and stomachs upside-down. "It was dark, but Marzanna confirms that it was a Paragon. When it left, we went on to observe the carcass, and it couldn't have been a Hollowheart of a Battleheart. It was most definitely a Paragon."

It was complete silence for a moment, and the first to speak for Mihovil. "Wh... what are we going to do?" he asked in a high-pitched voice, the thought of a cannibal Paragon roaming around their clan terrifying him. He hadn't appreciated being woken up this early, but after hearing news like that, he couldn't bring himself to go back to sleep.

"Alpha Althea," Eevi asked, trying to interject quickly in an attempt to calm the others down, "was the Paragon very close to our territory?"

Althea looked over the four, and she mulled over her answer. "Not close, but not very far, either," she finally replied, which wasn't what any of them had wanted to hear. "Regardless of distance, if that Paragon has tasted and smelled Paragon blood and flesh, distance is no longer a factor: it will hunt whatever it can find, and it will most likely travel nonstop until it finds what it wants."
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