Alexis
The sound of birds singing eerily in the woods and a woodpecker striking its beak against wood somewhere in the background. Sunlight was beginning to leave as night starts to creep into the land. A splash of sudden red streaked across the bushes and trees before a nasty crunch cracked the cold air. A deer's body laid twitching on the mossy floor with its broken neck held tight by a maw of a creature. Raizel was in her meager form of another beast that help raise her hunting abilities much better. She held the dying animal down with her clawlike hands, waiting for it to slip away before she drags its body back to the school. Her glowing white eyes blinked, getting the sensation that this animal is at death's door.
Bryan
It was almost imperceptible, but between the chirping of birds, the rustling of leaves, and Raizel's breath, there was a metallic sort of whirring. Little motors spinning, just out of sight. Little metal legs tap-tap-tapping along the forest floor.

They're seen before they're heard. Four-legged, spider-like machines, not much larger than tennis balls, with water sloshing around inside a transparent dome at the top. They swarm around the carcass, making a home on top of it, nestling in like cats preparing to sleep. But they don't seem to be doing anything.
Alexis
Oh no, this is her kill! She is going to begin dragging it away towards the direction of the school. From her point of her view, they were like coyotes and crows trying to steal her meal when they just waited for free food. Rai begins to shake off the spiderlike creatures as she moves, dragging, the dead deer away.
Bryan
The little machines leap off the carcass and instead surround Rai, seemingly intent on keeping her where she is. Their bodies twist around to point the water-filled domes away from Rai. One directly in front of her demonstrates their capabilities by launching a jet of water at the ground in front of her, generating a thin, but deep gash in the undergrowth. 

Meanwhile, somewhere not far away, an increasingly disgruntled employee of Newton's Cradle is fighting his way through the thicket. He's getting closer, though. He's beginning to smell something rank in the air, and he can just about make out a subtle white glow from somewhere ahead of him. Branches crack loudly under his feet, but if he had to move quietly, he wouldn't get anywhere.

He's settling for being able to move at all. He'll probably need to be disinfected thoroughly the moment he gets back.
Alexis
Oh. Oh no. The sudden shot from a jet of water triggered some memories back from Canada when hunters had shot at her. Panicking now, she begins to drag off the corpse more frantically to get away from the small machines. A trail of blood is left behind as she trying to escape. The sound of branches cracking loudly had gotten her attention. Was it a bigger thing!? She assume it was another of those mechanical spiders but much larger. She couldn't help but let out a warning growl for it to back off as she steps away.
Bryan
The machines shoot at her in response to her movements, trying to keep her from moving, but it doesn't turn out that they need to do that for very long.

What steps out of the woods *Is* Bigger, considerably so, but it's very much a human and not a mechanical spider. Male, not particularly tall, casually dressed with an N95 mask covering his nose and mouth. By the look in his eyes, he's displeased. Rai would recognize him as an employee of Newton's Cradle - not that he's doing much to hide it.

He takes a deep breath in, as if to sigh, but instead starts coughing violently. "Disgusting," He snarls, pinching the bridge of his nose. "You're the runt who's been leaving dead animals lying around, huh."
Alexis
Oh no. No. This stung. Her round eyes narrows as she stares daggers at the employee while her maw is clamped down on the deer's neck. Her wooden, pointed ear twitched in annoyance as her mane raises in spikes. Her longish, bestial arms circles the dead animal as if to hug it as she turns it away from him. "Its not our way to waste!" Her voice echoed with ghostly whispers followed after it. "We use every bit of the animal and properly dispose the remains that are not used!" As she speaks, some blood dripped from her wooden maw.
Bryan
"Yeah, well, I don't know who else could be leaving dead deer around Newton's Cradle." He fiddles around in his pockets for a few moments before finding a small pack of mint gum. He shoves it in his mouth all at once, clearly displeased with the smell.

He soon discovers the confusing - and relatively gross - taste of minty decay. But at least it covers up the awful smell somewhat.

"When you don't get around to finishing your..." He gestures vaguely at the dead deer. "...Who do you think is taking it? The spirits? The crows? The *Normal people?* Normal people don't eat rotting deer. Normal people generally try to avoid catching prion disease."
Alexis
"The rest of it is left buried. You think I'd leave this hanging waste?" She is indeed now hugging the dead animal in her arms protectively. This girl takes another step back. "This is food." Now both her wooden ears flattens back on her head. "I-I want it b-because I want to turn it into food. Save its hide and bones." It was beginning to get harder to speak when she is starting to feel anxious.
Bryan
"You're going to eat... All of that. By yourself?" He sounds incredulous, and annoyed. "And save the hide and bones instead of throwing them away." He walks a bit further into the woods for a few moments, and breathes deeply. It looks like he's trying not to throw a fit at Rai. It doesn't really seem to be working.

He comes back, and crouches down to be at eye level with Rai. "First of all, no. You are not eating all of that. Like I said, prion disease. Not a fun way to die." He's serious, but seems less mean than previously. "Secondly, why are you burying the stuff you can't eat? That's disgusting. Not to mention unsanitary. The stone age is over, we invented the freezer decades ago. Use it."

He pauses for a while to collect his robots. He puts them in a grocery store plastic bag. It looks incredibly trashy, but it seems to work well enough. 

"You're not the only one in this town who hunts for food. You could've told someone and made it at least somewhat sanitary. Maybe even made something good with the meat. But I've been cleaning up your mess for weeks at this point, and I've had several people tell me the courtyard smells like death, so whatever you do, this -" He gestures, once again, to the deer "- has to stop. Now."
Alexis
This sparked a flame in Rai when he came too close for comfort when he drew near."But I just killed it!" She argued, now attempting to stand her ground. "And this is a first time I went out h-hunting! D-Don't pin someone else's mess on me!" For the first time, Raizel had snapped at someone out of frustration. This could be a sign that she is fed up feeling oppressed by the system from another land where she got thrown into. "A-And fine! I'll use the d-damn freezer!" Rai huffed with a cold cloud of fog escaping her maw.
Bryan
He sighs. "Like I said, I don't know anyone else who'd be leaving dead deer lying around, but if I can't prove it's you either, the best I can do is tell you not to do it again. So don't do it again. I'm watching you."

He stands up and ruffles through the bag with his robots in it. He's always carrying *Something* Useful for basically any situation, even if it's something simple. Even if it's mostly there to help spare him personally some hassle.

He drops a roll of large trash bags next to the deer. "Put it in one of those if you're taking it inside before butchering it, or the whole place is going to smell terrible. And since the staff offices are at the entrance, I think someone's gonna notice that pretty quick. Not to mention the *Trail of blood.*"

"Have fun with your deer carcass. And come see me if you get sick. You'll know where to find me." He walks off the way he came, with significantly fewer branches in the way on account of having stomped most of them down the first time.
Alexis
Rai watches him walk through the thicket, leaving her alone with a dead deer and a bunch of garbage bags. She couldn't help but let out a sigh before she bagged the kill up before carrying it to the kitchen. The girl will do a decent job skinning and butchering the creature before packaging it carefully and placing it in the freezer. Of course, she misinterpreted what the man said to her earlier that day. The things that she did not eat or find reasonable to keep are the organs, guts and other parts she doesn't use are kept in a garbage bag. She'll have it stored away in the freezer like the man had mention once. *"Secondly, why are you burying the stuff you can't eat? That's disgusting. Not to mention unsanitary. The stone age is over, we invented the freezer decades ago. Use it."* And Rai drew a crude drawing of the man with a message saying,"He told me to store waste in freezer." Then she'll go cook a simple meal before going about her day. There is a freezer containing unwanted deer parts with a hoof sticking out from a garbage bag.
Bryan
Someone is going to find that. And not care.