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Post by m!chelle--✗ on May 24, 2008 22:08:58 GMT -5
She shook her head, clutching it between her two small fists. "It's just so hard to tell... They're not really sure where we are yet, so they don't know how long it will take, either..."
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Post by jenee on May 24, 2008 22:13:20 GMT -5
Joren nodded. "Alright...let's move on tomorrow night. I doubt they'll be able to catch up with us within that amount of time...and even then we should be leaving ourselves plenty of time to leave. Besides, we still need to figure out where we're going."
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Post by m!chelle--✗ on May 24, 2008 22:15:52 GMT -5
Alice nodded, expression stoney. Her eyes were shadowed with unknown emotions, and her mind seemed lost to an overflow of troubled thoughts. She let out soft sigh, and tried to remember how her life had gotten so complicated.
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Post by jenee on May 24, 2008 22:25:37 GMT -5
Joren looked at her, then back out to the trees. "Alright. Why don't you go ahead and have that deer? I'll go out to find my own meal." With a small, half hearted smile of encouragement, he wandered off, letting his senses wander as he tried to find something else.
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Post by m!chelle--✗ on May 24, 2008 22:30:02 GMT -5
Alice watched him go with the same bleak expression, and then turned back toward the doe. She tried to make herself enjoy the meal, but it was difficult, with her mind straying off in different directions every few moments. Finally she leaned away, unable to force any more blood into her system. She sighed, resting against a tree as she waited for Joren too return.
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Post by jenee on May 25, 2008 11:48:37 GMT -5
Joren came back a few minutes later, clearly haven finsihed off an feasted on his prey in the same location. "That's better," he murmured, his own mind flying in different directions. "Now we need to think of a plan. Do you know what lays beyond this part of Tarlonia?" If they were going to stay here for a bit longer, they would have to know where to go when they left. Joren did not favor the idea of getting lost.
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Post by m!chelle--✗ on May 25, 2008 11:53:52 GMT -5
Alice's eyes closed, and her voice was quiet as she replied, "Kind of. I usually stayed farther north, but I know there's a desert south of here, and mountains inland, along the ocean. Maybe we could find a map."
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Post by jenee on May 25, 2008 12:00:23 GMT -5
"That would help," Joren agreed, then went into thought. "Maybe we can find a town or village somewhere around here...they'd surely have a map. Or maybe some travelers on the main roads."
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Post by m!chelle--✗ on May 25, 2008 12:06:45 GMT -5
"Perhaps," she murmured, sighing softly. Finally her eyes flicked open and she straightened up, grabbing a small stick from the ground. "Here, I'll draw what I know." Alice began to etch out a rough map in the dirt, pointing to the southern forests where they now resided. "We're somewhere in here, along the river. The lake's up there, and a road crosses the river right below it, running from the mountains to Traveler's meet. Then there are many roads going all over the place that meet in Traveler's meet."
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Post by jenee on May 25, 2008 12:09:58 GMT -5
"So if we follow one of those roads, we'll surely meet somebody along the way, or we could just stop by Traveler's Meet...under the circumstance of being extremely careful."
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Post by m!chelle--✗ on May 25, 2008 12:17:10 GMT -5
Alice nodded slowly. "Extremely careful," she agreed, remembering what had happened the last time she'd been to Traveler's meet. That had been what had started all this...
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Post by jenee on May 25, 2008 12:28:13 GMT -5
Joren nodded. "Alright, then let's go."
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Post by m!chelle--✗ on May 25, 2008 12:30:55 GMT -5
Alice nodded, and stood, gathering up the sack that still held her egg- the egg that had been the beginning of the story, in the town that they were now returning to.
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