<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 20pt;">Keeper Post</span><br/><hr/><strong>Location:</strong>200 feet south of Vortex Caves {exterior}<br/><br/>The voice would have unnerved any normal person, but for Jesse, it only alerted him to danger. He tried to make out what direction the voice was coming from but due to how thick the forest was, paired with the reverbing quality of the foot of the mountain, the voice seemed to come from multipe directions. While Jesse could try to hack through the forest in a straight line, he knew it would not give him the element of surprise on whoever was assaulting the owner of this voice.<br/><br/>His best curse of action would be to use the path that led towards the Vortex Campground. While it would be easy to navigate, it was open to ambushes from the thick forest, but it would be better than blazing his own path through the wood.<br/><br/>Fortunately, after about two hundred feet of hiking the path, Jesse would find the owner of the voice come sprawling from the bush some ten feet in front of him. The khaki button-up and the olive slacks was the unmistakable uniform of a park ranger, but that is not what struck him as being odd. It was the face of the ranger. While she had a cut to her cheek, probably from rushing through the forest, the woman before him had the same face (https://media.hollywood.com/images/638x425/1829166.jpg) as Deputy Raines.<br/><br/>In the heat of the moment, the ranger thought Jesse was just another lone hiker out on the trails and held up her hands to get him to stop. "Don't come any closer, Sir. There's a crazed lunatic with a knife around here. I was just now able to get away," she explained to Jesse. She bent forwards a bit, hands on her knees and catching her breath, showing Jesse that it seemed she had been running a whole lot before appearing out on the trail. When she lifted her head, she caught sight of something behind Jesse and called out, "Behind you!"<br/><br/>Jesse had no time to react as the entity rushed from behind and dove to the gravel like a runner sliding to home base, slashing a knife to Jesse's leg. He recovered to his feet before Jesse and as the dust settled, showed his form to him. It was a man who wore an all-white outfit with an all white cloak, dirtied by streaks and stains of mud. The most notable areas of focus was the ends his sleeves and collar, which were caked with dried blood. The knife in his hand had the fresh blood of his earlier slash. Removing his cloak, he revealed his identity, that being of a pale human with platinum-white hair and feral eyes.<br/><br/>He looked up to size up Jesse and he commented, "This is one of my pursuers. So, where's the little bitch with the mace?"<br/><br/><hr/><br/><em>Hunters permitted to reply to this post:</em>Jesse