Sorry it's short, I wanted to reply though. :> WC: 307
Despite the distance and noise, it seemed he'd heard her. The man stood, slowly, the remains of the dead creature, it's skin and fur, in one hand. The other held a sharp, heavy rock that the girl eyed warily.
"Well hello, miss," he started, friendly enough.
Sage remained silent, but dismounted Lennon carefully, cautious. Once she was on the ground, she turned back to him, and hand running over the horse's mane and giving his ear a quick, reassuring scratch. Really, though, the hippie child was more worried than the horse. She trusted he would not wander, and took a single step forward.
"What on earth is one of Gabriel's doing, all alone on this dreadful mountain?" he asked with a grin after dropping the offensive-looking stone back into the river, where it belonged.
Breathing a sigh of relief and realizing there weren't many other readily available weapons, she approached slowly, a vague smile on her own face as she inhaled a healthy cloud of smoke from the joint between her thin fingers. For now, she would trust him.
"Looking for something long lost, love," she called back wistfully, her voice rising to meet the noise of the river. She stopped at a comfortable distance, slightly less than a yard away from him. "What about you? What will you do with that?" she asked, inclining her head to the still dripping pelt, now realizing that the liquid was tinted bright red, the scent of the animal still strong and lingering.
She was curious, after all; if this stranger did anything like what she did with her pelts, perhaps they might trade. Maybe this way, she could help Inferni's relationship with Anathema. Even now, she sported some of her own creations; a rudimentary, naturally tanned leather skirt hung gracefully about her hips, stopping just short of her knees. It was a simple piece, tattered and frayed purposefully at the ends, but she liked it.
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