<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Delilah</strong></span><br/><br/>I jumped over the edge following the boys and only when I was under the canopy did I slow down. Having spend my life on the ground I knew the way hunters worked. On the ground the foraging parties from airships were armed but on the line descending down, there was nothing they could do. Sitting ducks, they called it. When we were all safely on the ground I looked around and listened. People of the Cloudweaver were well trained in combat but they weren't as good in listening. Every animal made a specific sound and the sounds I heard bothered me a bit. Or rather, the sounds I didn't hear.<br/><br/>The group set up a safe parameter and after some quick scouting we were split into groups and I was going with the hunting party. I knew a lot about wildlife and how to look for them. Obviously nobody knew how, all I told them it was experience. We all had our gyro bracelets on, which was highly uncomfortable in the humid heat.<br/><br/><strong>"There's Okapi around here, I see their tracks."</strong><br/><br/>Okapi were big animals and only two of them would provide the whole ship with a meal. The other good thing was that they are pretty slow and sluggish and since they are not nocturnal creatures they would just be waking up or sleepy. Easy targets.<br/><br/>Without really waiting for an order, I snuck into the bushes in search for the animals. It didn't take long before we had located the small herd. The animals were still resting and taking two wouldn't be too difficult. We would need to take them both down at once though or they'd get spooked and run off, which on itself wouldn't be too bad but the animals had enough size and weight to trample us and seriously injure or even kill a human being.<br/><br/>Just when we were ready to strike, I had my sword in my hand already, I heard something else and the puzzle was complete. I didn't hear rodents or birds and the reason was a tiger. Immediately I raised my hand a signal to everybody to sit still. We were spread out around the herd, two on each side and we'd be no match for a good sized tiger that would want us for breakfast. Desperately I searched the bushes in order to find it, not daring to come on the radio to tell the others what I had heard.