The soft, but loud metallic scraping that the sharpening rock made when it was dragged across a blade relaxed Axelle. She would be able to hear that all day and be able to maybe fall asleep to it. She could feel the tension, the annoyance in the air as she continued to sharpen her weapon and ignored the other. When he spoke, she deliberately continued sharpening. The metallic noise rang in both of their ears, and probably more loudly in his because it bothered him. She looked up from her chore to glare at him. ”No. I live here too,” she snorted, but continued, ”If it bothers you, leave.” Then she looked back down to the Katana and sharpened more quickly, the long dragged out strides of the sharpening stone now more quickly, but still long.
He bothered her so much, and aside from the cat thing – she didn’t know why. It was just his presence that irked her – and maybe she just hated him for no reason. His existence annoyed her, and everything else he did, too. She could imagine him eating Frex one day – and then, she would have a reason to kill him. Then, despite all her hard work moving up in ranks, she wouldn’t care if she was exiled because killing him would be worth it. Maybe it was just that – they were too much alike. He wanted her gone, and she wanted him gone as well. It was just the issue of doing that without actually harming the man… Or maybe she could harm him without getting caught. A slight smile appeared on Axelle’s face – yeah, she was sneaky enough for that.
How would she get him far enough away from the caves to plant an attack? Maybe she could just find him somewhere and make her move then. Surely, the man would do his exploring around someday soon. He was fairly new, and she was sure that he didn’t explore yet – because she hadn’t seen him around before their previous meeting. Then she would just have to follow him, and do what needs to be done. Whatever was necessary.
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