Lassara - Shards of Neril - Story Thread

[seireikhaan]

Kyran waited for the elderly man to make his move. The man went to the northeast, at a pace somewhere between a walk and a run. Kyran followed above, until the old man finally stopped. He stopped, seemed to be observing his surroundings. The old man materialized a box from some place Kyran could not see, and propped it up with a stick. Kyran instantly recognized the highly rudimentary trap. He wondered what the man was hoping to catch with such a poor mechanism. While pondering the trap, Kyran was startled when the old man began levitating himself up into the trees. "Perhaps it is time to finally introduce each other," Kyran thought. "I suppose I've stalked him long enough. Nonetheless, let's take some precautions..." The old man was sitting on a tree branch about about fifty strides away, and a fair ways down. Kyran closed his eyes, and focused his mind on the tree holding up the old man. The tree jerked to life, and the branch wrapped around the old man. Kyran leaped down from his position and towards him. With a final leap, Kyram felt himself cradled down to the man's position by a generous limb. The old man was unharmed, but looked quite annoyed.

"You're a very strange human, you are," Kyran noted. He motioned to the box trap. "Looking for quarry, are we? I don't think that will catch anyt-" Kyran was cut off by the sound of the box falling. He cut his gaze back to the old man, who simply grinned.

"You were saying?"