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Post by White on Jul 16, 2010 16:33:52 GMT -5
There was inconsistent rustling in the trees. To the untrained ear it might sound slightly odd, but to a sharper one, it would signify something much larger and clumsier than an animal. Jaci was still trying to get the hang of sneaking around in trees. She could move around them just fine, but keeping quiet was a whole different story.
She really should have practiced more. Most of the time she concentrated on fine-tuning her skill with her bow. It was her favorite thing to do, after all, but it was so routine. Too routine. She was getting in a rut, and that was incredibly boring.
Jaci leaped to another tree, sounding more rustling. Sighing, she sat down on a branch with one leg hanging over each side, her hands resting in front of her for added balance.
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Post by Secret Agent Cat on Jul 16, 2010 16:46:43 GMT -5
A girl stepped out from behind some bushes, she looked either way. Her light colored eyes looking around as she had a arrow drawn in her bow. It was pointed some towards the ground. It seemed that she might be hunting. Her long hair flowed behind her as she stepped forward, being careful not to step on any crunchy leaves or to make any sudden noise. She tipped toed through the brush, as if she were stalking prey.
She continued forward, bow still drawn but lowered towards the ground.
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Post by White on Jul 16, 2010 17:00:58 GMT -5
Jaci spotted the newcomer immediately. She leaned forward, trying to get a better view of the girl. They looked to be about the same age. Slowly, Jaci began to slide of the branch. She hung by her hands for a minute before soundlessly dropping down to the ground.
Picking her steps carefully so she wouldn't give away her presence, Jaci crept up behind Suncatcher and snatched the remaining arrows from her quiver. Only four? Jaci glanced at them long enough to notice that they were merely toys. Odd... But for what she was planning, it was just fine.
Jaci jumped up and flipped forward landing softly on her feet, right in front of Suncatcher. She reached out the hand with the arrows she had pilfered. A devious grin was pasted on her face.
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Post by Secret Agent Cat on Jul 16, 2010 22:33:25 GMT -5
It seemed that the other girl with her bow strung was off her game right now. She usually noticed, or head when someone was sneaking up on her. Which of course was usually her younger brothers. Though, they seemed to leave her alone now a days. She hadn't explained to anyone what had happened to her; though she probably knew her mother knew. Her mother knew everything, even when Sun did not tell her.
All of a sudden she heard her arrows being removed from her quiver and then turned around, ready to aim her bow at whoever it was. But, as she turned around no one was there. She then turned the way she had been facing before and there stood a girl around the same age as her. Holding her other four arrows out towards her. She was grinning some. Sun stood hesitantly for a moment and then reached out to take her arrows, shyly.
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Post by White on Jul 16, 2010 22:50:38 GMT -5
Suncatcher was allowed to retrieve one arrow, and one arrow only, before Jaci withdrew her hand. It wasn't going to be that easy to get her toys back. Before her victim had a chance to do anything else, the girl jumped back a couple feet and beckoned for Suncatcher to follow. She didn't wait long before she broke into a steady run. It wasn't too fast, she would be caught quickly.
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Post by Secret Agent Cat on Jul 16, 2010 23:05:36 GMT -5
Sun looked at the girl, shyly and confused. Her look a bit confuzzled. She put the one arrow she was allowed to take back into her quiver, but kept the one in her bow strung. She wasn't going to trust this other girl so easily, even if she was Indian. She followed hesitantly and ran at a slower run than the girl did. It wasn't that she couldn't keep up with her it was just that she didn't want to fall into a trap or anything.
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Post by White on Jul 16, 2010 23:17:22 GMT -5
The girl was more confused than she was angry. It wasn't the reaction to theft that Jaci was accustomed to. This reaction made her feel guilty, rather than amused. It almost wasn't fun. Looking over her shoulder, she noticed that Sun wasn't running fast enough to catch her. Jaci frowned and looked back in front of her.
She stopped suddenly and turned around to face Suncatcher. Jaci held up one of the toy arrows and placed it on the ground before running up to grab a tree branch and swing herself up. Two down, two more to go. Another idea popped into her head and she drew an arrow from her quiver and fastened one of the toy arrows to the shaft.
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Post by Secret Agent Cat on Jul 16, 2010 23:28:19 GMT -5
Sun stopped slowly, being careful. She walked over to where the other girl had placed one of her arrows on the ground. She continued on after the girl when she put the other arrow inside her quiver with the other one. Following after the other girl she kept her distance, arrow still strung in her bow but aimed towards the ground still.
She wondered what this girl was up to. Was she playing games with her? Was this her way of being friendly? If it was, it was weird. Sun would have asked for her arrows back, kindly, if it wasn't for that fact that she didn't speak. Ever.
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Post by White on Jul 16, 2010 23:47:27 GMT -5
Suncatcher was correct with both guesses. Jaci was indeed playing games, and the way she was going about it, it was also her way of being friendly. If she weren't, well, she'd be being much more of a pest than she was being already. It had never been her intention to keep the little toy arrows. No, all she wanted to do was have a little bit of fun. No harm in that.
Jaci stuck the remaining toy arrow into her quiver, along with the arrow she had tied one of the toys to so it'd be easier to move around without breaking anything. She shook the tree a little to remind Suncatcher of where she was before leaping to another tree, and then another, and another after that.
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Post by Secret Agent Cat on Jul 17, 2010 0:04:28 GMT -5
Sun wondered where this girl was taking her; but she would have to follow if she wanted to get her arrows back. Though, she could probably always make new ones, but she wasn't exactly good at it. That's why they were sort of toy arrows because she had never been fit enough to make real arrows of her own. Till then she would have to suffice with these five toy arrows.
She followed slowly on the ground, looking up to see which tree the girl had jumped into next. This, was getting a little annoying, but she had nothing better to do. She had been pretending earlier to catch prey that wasn't there. She had had trouble tracking any animals in the forest lately and once she did actually find one she seemed to scare it away before she could try and catch it. She just wasn't as sneaky as her older brothers or other hunters and archers.
She frowned slightly, a bit disappointed with herself. She had never really been taught any of these things like tracking, hunting. But had instead taught herself from what she saw from others. She was very observant and seemed to learn things best that way.
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Post by White on Jul 17, 2010 0:23:19 GMT -5
Jaci peered at the girl from behind the leaves in the tree she was currently occupying. She was surprised she hadn't been yelled at yet. Normally, people she pilfered from yelled at her immediately, or if they hadn't, they had by now. 'I have better things to do than to chase a little girl all over' The comment always made her eyes roll, and more often than not, encouraged more mischief.
But with Suncatcher, it was completely different. The girl seemed pretty calm. Until she frowned... Jaci frowned herself, feeling a bit more guilty for causing trouble for her. Perhaps she should begin to wrap this up and talk to her. She shook the tree a little to cause more rustling before she began to tree hop again.
On the fourth tree, she stopped hopping around. Instead, she silently slipped into a fifth tree nearby and waited for Suncatcher to reach where it looked like she had stopped.
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Post by Secret Agent Cat on Jul 17, 2010 13:33:41 GMT -5
Suncatcher continued to following, her eyes looking up at the trees to see where the girl went next. She walked pretty calm. She wasn't much of one to get angry with others, sure she got disappointed and sometimes didn't always get her way but she had learned to take things as they came. And to what this little encounter with this girl meant, she would just have to wait and see. Maybe, it would lead to them being friends.
She stopped as she saw and heard the rustling stopped, she looked up in the trees and then closed her eyes. Breathing in softly, opening her ears to her surroundings. Since she didn't talk she had learned to take in her surroundings, to hear what others might not. She then raised her bow and aimed towards a tree. Stringing her bow back some and then letting go. Her toy arrow flying through the sky towards a tree. If she was correct, her arrow would zoom right past the girl. Enough to maybe scare her.
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Post by White on Jul 17, 2010 13:51:27 GMT -5
Jaci hadn't noticed that Sun had strung an arrow. By the time it had been aimed, she was sitting on the branch no longer facing her victim. The leather strap of her quiver was in her teeth to prevent the arrows from tumbling out when she let herself fall, her legs bent around the branch to keep her hanging upside down. One of her arrows (the one with the toy arrow tied to it) was strung with her bow, aimed about a foot away from Sun's feet. Jaci exhaled as she let the arrow fly, only to gasp when Sun's toy arrow hit her right leg. It had surprised her enough that she fell out of the tree, sounding a dull thud.
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Post by Secret Agent Cat on Jul 17, 2010 14:03:23 GMT -5
As Jaci's arrow along with Sun's toy arrow strapped to it, landed in front of Sun she looked up to see the other girl fall out of the tree as she heard a gasp. She frowned, grinning. She hadn't thought her shot would be that effective. She swooped down and picked up both hers and Jaci's arrow from the ground. Putting hers in her quiver then put her bow over her shoulder so that she wasn't carrying it. She walked over towards the tree Jaci had fallen out of and stuck her hand out with Jaci's arrow in it. Her light colored orbs looking down at Jaci, though what she was thinking could not be seen on her face. It was a bit stoic; but held a sort of kindness to it. A friendly look. She then smiled as she offered the other girl her arrow back.
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Post by White on Jul 17, 2010 14:13:11 GMT -5
The girl groaned as she pushed herself up into a sitting position. Jaci looked up to Suncatcher with one eye closed and her mouth scrunched up in an immature expression that signified a bitter acceptance of defeat. Though it was hardly defeat, it was only a little game of chase. "Lucky shot." She said, her expression suddenly softened and she cracked a smile. Her hand reached out to take her arrow and place it back into her quiver which was now laying on the ground. She took the opportunity to return the other two toy arrows to Suncatcher as well. "Sorry about that. I got a little bored."
"I'm Jaci."
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