<div class="floatleft">(https://wallpaperscraft.com/image/traxex_drow_ranger_dota_2_93722_1600x1200.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Marixsa Starlight<br/><strong>Race and Occupation:</strong>Drow Ranger<br/><strong>Location &amp; Time:</strong>Wandering aimlessly about Amberdale, Afternoon<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Open<br/><hr/><br/>The past several days had been rough on a particular young ranger.  Of course, part of this was mainly due to her own choice, being that she initially opted to take a bit more of a dangerous route through the woods as opposed to traveling on the road to get to her destination.  Mostly, this was to try and avoid running the risk of freaking travelers out if they figured out what she was.  On the bright side, she had learned a rather valuable piece of information; Marixsa was pretty decent at running away from foes she couldn't yet handle, at least in a forest setting.  Between what her adopted father taught her and her elvish dexterity, she was able to avoid getting mauled by the wildlife on her way to Amberdale.  She thought she knew a lot, but the past several days taught her both how little she truly knew, and of the value of fear.  She wouldn't be going back into the woods alone any time soon once she got situated in this town that the elders were directing her to.<br/><br/>Truthfully, only part of the journey was spent traveling the woods.  After her third encounter with multiple rabbits chasing her up into the trees, she wound up finding out that rodents of unusual size actually do exist when she came face to face with a giant squirrel.  She still wasn't sure how she had managed to get away from that one with only a few scratches on her left arm, but it was at that point that she wisened up and started walking along the road.  After she cleaned and treated the injury she had sustained as best she could, the journey was fairly uneventful from that point on, although it was a bit harder to find things to eat.  She felt simultaneously relieved and more nervous than she could ever recall being when her destination entered her field of view, however.<br/><br/>Having lived in the forest with her clan all her life, she had never seen civilization quite like this before.  Even just starting to walk up towards it, she felt awestruck.  She admittedly hadn't been sure what to expect, but she doubted that anything could have prepared her for the sight of Amberdale.  Unconsciously pulling her cloak more firmly around herself as if to protect herself from prying eyes, she began wandering the streets.  All thoughts of hunger, potentially tending to her injury, and even the reason why she came here temporarily were suppressed by the sights and sounds of the town.  Frost blue eyes took in as many of the sights from beneath the darkened hood as they could, but the way she was moving could easily have brought attention to herself.  She was acting almost like someone from the country seeing a city for the first time in their life based on her body language alone, and in many ways this was an accurate parallel.  Even if her purpose were still on her mind in this moment, she wouldn't even know where to start looking for help.