Geiseric Valk's Domain, 5 July 2015
"Wiidabaddabatt!!! Bddrabbutt!" They looked like Squishables made from horrible albino bug-wolves. Round of body, fat of limb, the compound eyes of the Moggip glittered unblinking as they hounded after their quarry, a horde of eleven alternating between running, swinging from branches and bouncing between the trees like rubber balls, chattering in their strange baby-rasp voices. "Aiii haaate yooooooooh! Ddrrabbabap!"
Maika huffed as she ran, growling loudly through her teeth as she held the cramp that screamed from her side after hours of attempting to avoid the fat, yet speedy and persistent creatures dead set on tearing her to pieces with their square palms and thick, powerful fingers. The trees around her glowed internally, fluttering between a serene blue and aggressive flashes of orange, yellow and violet, as if attempting to distract her, slow her down for the Moggip to set upon her.
Ahead of her, a stream of clear, silvery water ran shallow in a deep creek bed, cutting a swath through the forest. Taking as deep of breaths as her aching body could manage, she squared herself off with one of the narrower parts of the bed, secured her starting stance, and took off in a sprint, focused almost entirely on that far patch of land. The trees around her flashed, making loud pops and bangs as she passed, yet too often fired a fraction of a second too late to meet with her eyes, leaving her view unobstructed. Her boots dug unto the black substrate beneath her as she kicked off her jump, limbs scrambling in the air until he made landfall at the ditch's edge and rolling herself up to stumble into something that resembled an upright position, one hand clutching at her side as she panted.
The Moggip as a mass stopped, save for two individuals, tumbling down the incline and into the stream, where their bodies seemed to inflate like balloons on hitting the fluid's surface. Left scrambling on their backs, they rolled down the stream, followed by their comrades and gargling out little pleas. "Noooh! Helpmeeeeh!" Their words were a bit desperate for how innocuous their situation was.
Free from pursuit, Maika stumbled around to look at where she had wound up, spying the first glimpse of civilization in the way of a blue stone staircase that ran in zig-zag along a cliff, towards a good sized door carved into the cliff's face. With her arms above her head, mousey brown hair stuck to her cheeks and uniform a wreck, she trudged toward the stairs; blearily blinking her murky green eyes and drawing upon her determination to start her climb, peppered as it was with the occasional collapse at the landings. The shrieks and growls of far-off creatures, however, made sure those rests were short.
"Wiidabaddabatt!!! Bddrabbutt!" They looked like Squishables made from horrible albino bug-wolves. Round of body, fat of limb, the compound eyes of the Moggip glittered unblinking as they hounded after their quarry, a horde of eleven alternating between running, swinging from branches and bouncing between the trees like rubber balls, chattering in their strange baby-rasp voices. "Aiii haaate yooooooooh! Ddrrabbabap!"
Maika huffed as she ran, growling loudly through her teeth as she held the cramp that screamed from her side after hours of attempting to avoid the fat, yet speedy and persistent creatures dead set on tearing her to pieces with their square palms and thick, powerful fingers. The trees around her glowed internally, fluttering between a serene blue and aggressive flashes of orange, yellow and violet, as if attempting to distract her, slow her down for the Moggip to set upon her.
Ahead of her, a stream of clear, silvery water ran shallow in a deep creek bed, cutting a swath through the forest. Taking as deep of breaths as her aching body could manage, she squared herself off with one of the narrower parts of the bed, secured her starting stance, and took off in a sprint, focused almost entirely on that far patch of land. The trees around her flashed, making loud pops and bangs as she passed, yet too often fired a fraction of a second too late to meet with her eyes, leaving her view unobstructed. Her boots dug unto the black substrate beneath her as she kicked off her jump, limbs scrambling in the air until he made landfall at the ditch's edge and rolling herself up to stumble into something that resembled an upright position, one hand clutching at her side as she panted.
The Moggip as a mass stopped, save for two individuals, tumbling down the incline and into the stream, where their bodies seemed to inflate like balloons on hitting the fluid's surface. Left scrambling on their backs, they rolled down the stream, followed by their comrades and gargling out little pleas. "Noooh! Helpmeeeeh!" Their words were a bit desperate for how innocuous their situation was.
Free from pursuit, Maika stumbled around to look at where she had wound up, spying the first glimpse of civilization in the way of a blue stone staircase that ran in zig-zag along a cliff, towards a good sized door carved into the cliff's face. With her arms above her head, mousey brown hair stuck to her cheeks and uniform a wreck, she trudged toward the stairs; blearily blinking her murky green eyes and drawing upon her determination to start her climb, peppered as it was with the occasional collapse at the landings. The shrieks and growls of far-off creatures, however, made sure those rests were short.