<div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/35roasb.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>An-Yah (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=333483.msg15893851#msg15893851)<br/><strong>Race and Occupation:</strong>Painteno Huntress<br/><strong>Location &amp; Time:</strong>Road through farmlands towards Amberdale/after midnight /W1D3-Castalin<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Kroth-Taran, OPEN<br/><br/>Every little noise made the hapless huntress cower deeper into the clock. The Elf was close to An-Yah's size though the cloak was hardly warm enough for walking around outside at this time of night. Maybe she could trade it in for something warmer when she made it to town...if she made it to town. The stress was almost too much for her already frayed nerves, one good scare and she was sure she'd faint straight away. She'd done it before, she got lost in Oldwall Forest on her first solo game hunt, the yipping of a fox somewhere in the night made her panic like she'd never done before.<br/><br/>Everything went black and she woke up she didn't know how long after her little spell. It was nighttime, just like now but luck was with her then. She had landed on a family of rabbits killing each one in her fall, she returned to her Clan so very proud of herself, the Elders never said how the game animal needed to be killed only that it was killed and she'd accomplished that! She got better at hunting after that being able to track and kill game without having to fall on it first. It had gotten darker as clouds chose to eat Luna's guiding glow just as she was actually leaving the wheat field. She held her spear close to her chest, her paws actually beginning to hurt. She might have to find a cave or old person building to hide in for the night. Maybe make a fire to ward off the things that would want to eat her fur and all.<br/><br/>Taking a deep breath she tried to focus on anything but her own fear. Baby Gnolls, fluffy clouds, the bright sun, flowers, just anything at all.  And after a few minutes she had almost convinced herself she wasn't on the verge of being eaten alive any second, but then her keen ears picked the sound of footsteps and someone shouting something about an Old Dread and ripping legs off. All shreds of bravery and confidence instantly gone. She froze in the middle of the dirt road stock still her barely breathing, panic ran through her mind as she tried to think of what to do. The speaker sounded far away maybe she could dive off the road and find a bush to hide in? Or maybe run, she was faster than even Ba-Tou at running and that was on two legs. She she found a way to carry her spear she could run on all fours and outrun pretty much anything that didn't fly.<br/><br/>Too bad she had taken too long to decide. The voice who she know realized was a human man had spotted her and was quickly approaching. Talking of traveling together, did he not know she wasn't a human herself? Could she use that to her advantage? Humans were generally scared of the Gnolls upon looking at them, now An-Yah knew she wasn't as scary as a Gnoll or that she even looked remotely like a Gnoll. But maybe this man didn't know the difference? She could maybe bluff her way through this one. She turned to face the man with the beginnings of a snarl on her pretty muzzle, but once she saw it was a very pretty man with a very big sword, both of which were much taller than she was her bravado failed. She yelped in fear and fell back onto her ass and tail swinging her spear haphazardly in front of her screaming. "GO AWAY, GO AWAY, GO AWAY! NO EAT AN-YAH! AN-YAH NO TASTE GOOD! TOO MUCH FUZZY!"