Authors Note: Ah, yes, this is the part where I would like to thank those that actually took the time to read and review my lousy story. I promise you I will someday get around to explaining the storyline. Anyway, thanks for the suggestions guys! On with the story! Oh yeah, and one other thing, Maurie is the fuzzy creature.
This camp isn't so bad, they actually managed to hide it, and the tents are in nice neat rows. Looks like they're all at a meeting or something, the only people I've seen so far are all rank soldiers or cooking help. Now, I know what you're thinking, what can he accomplish by walking through their temporary camp?
Lots of things, like, what their commander is like or the efficiency of their system of teamwork. I'd say that they either have a tactical genius or a neat freak. A tactical genius, probably, nobody with half a brain puts their camp in the easiest area to defend by accident. Cliffs at your back, and wide open plains on all other sides of the board, that way you can build a veritable fortress if your fighting isn't so great.
Aha! Looky what we have here, a large group of people, seems I was right they are having a meeting. I quickly checked to make sure that no one has noticed me, before sitting down. Oh dear, I hope that woman isn't their leader, she looks like a formidable opponent. Pretty, too, if you're into that sort of stuff. Which I happen to be, incidentally enough.
I can't quite hear what she's saying. She's talking about something that is wandering through the woods.
"Now, Children, most of you have heard that there is a lone man traversing through these woods and his allegiance is unknown. I ask you to always be on the lookout should he be apart of the Destishie we would all be in grand trouble. Beware, Children, he might be an assassin of the gravest order sent to do away with me. I would not want any of you to suffer for my crimes, so, please, be careful. Now, onto lighter news, it seems that Victore has discovered a new species. Come here, Victore."
A young man, carrying a furry creature, proudly, walked to the front of the assembly. I squinted, trying to see over the craning heads, and realized the creature was Maurie. Ah, she's speaking again.
"Corporal Victore, perhaps you can enlighten us, when and where did you find this…creature? And what is it?"
Corporal Victore licked his lips and said, almost proudly, "I found it yesterday, sir, while we were shadowing the man. It was wandering through the woods looking lost. Poor, little, thing probably got abandoned, sir. As to what it is, I don't rightly know. Sir.
Jeri rubbed her chin, thoughtfully, before asking, "Abandoned? How do you know that?"
"Well, sir, the little fella has a groomed look and he has a well-fed appearance that wild animals don't have. Personally, I think his owner is most likely dead."
"You'd be right about that, kid, if he weren't sitting in the back row leering at your commander. Although, he really isn't my owner"
Victore gasped, opening and closing his mouth like a fish, as he realized the creature had just spoken. He wasn't the only one. People all over the crowd were staring incredulously at the little creature as though it were a joke that they were expected to get. It was actually pretty funny, from my point of view, you gotta hand it to the little fella he timed it perfectly.
Their leader wasn't even looking at Maurie. She was searching the crowd, as though looking for something, when her gaze came across me. She held her hand up, for quiet and stillness I suppose, and said, "You there, who are you? Are you the owner of this creature? Where did you come from?"
When I didn't answer, she raised an eyebrow and said, "Well? Are you going to answer me, young man?"
I laughed, breaking the stillness, and just looked at her. Her face became cold and still. Everybody held their breath as though scared of this beautiful, amusing leader of the little kiddy army. I ran my hand through my hair laughing at their fear and her impatience. I took a deep breath, looked at the sky, and turned to face her.
"You know, it's not very polite to intrude on someone else's lands without permission, and then, on top of that, stealing a Sydikfa. As for my name, well, you don't really need to know that, 'What you don't know can't hurt you'. Young I may look but at least I'm not a baby what doesn't know how to follow someone in the woods, hey?"
I said, smiling and frowning when the conversation called for it. I walked towards the corporal and Maurie, who was glaring at me in the most ferocious manner. Before I got there, however, I was surrounded by lots of people brandishing weapons, some uncertainly, and glaring at me almost as ferociously as Maurie.
Sorry, folks, cliffhanger/writers block, heh heh. sorry the chaps so short