Between the Trees [Sita/Valerian]

[praiseofblood]

Damn it was cold....Sita frowned as he pulled his furs around him. He was high in the trees of the Mornai forrests, in his little camp--miles away from his tribe. Sita looked out over the forrest. It was beautiful, silver and purple and gold--so unlike the green trees back home. The air here was aso clean and so fresh, he...just couldn't believe it. Sita sighed as he looked at his little camp. He was on a solid ledge inside of a ridiculously large tree, but he wasn't too sure about building a fire just yet until he made a rock base for it.

He hummed softly to himself, his kills for the day hanging from a high ledge, drying in the cold air. He had already eaten, but was planning to smoke the meat for when kills were sparse. Blinking as he heard a noise, he crept out of his ledge, grabbing his spear. He looked around keenly with his sharp amethyst eyes, keeping his ears peirced for sound. He heard it again, and he frowned, trying to pinpoint it. Was it an enemy? A daemon?

Sita crept downwards a bit, looking for the sounds. Who was it?

[clementine]

Valerian moved almost nearly silent through the underbrush. If it wasn't for his damned leg he'd have been totally silent. Lifting his nose to the air, the male sniffed once and then twice. Meat. And fresh kills too. Beads tinkled quietly in his hair as he looked up, spying the carcasses of animals hanging off the ledge of a large tree a few feet ahead.

Perfect. Valerian was not above poaching someone else's kill, especially since he was without his own tribe. He tried not to snort at the thought as he readied a knife in his hand, knowing that fresh kills meant a person. There! Valerian immediately dropped to a crouch, clinging to the shadows as he believed he had just seen movement.

Dark molten eyes keen, the Majikadai stalked towards his prey.

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Sita frowned, what was that? He slid down the trunk a bit more, but used his agility to cling to the tree. He saw a shadow move and jumped down the tree, moving swiftly towards it, a shadow in the night. He shifted mid-run, into a small black panther, before increasing his speed. It was a scavenger, and he was out for his kills.

[clementine]

Valerian saw the figure against the trunk of the tree and lept into action himself, praying his leg wouldn't betray him even as he felt a familiar twinge in the bound wound. Moving for the tree using his own brand of speed, Val skirted around the panther (panther!) in the dark and started to climb the tree.

He was nearly shocked into stopping when the figure had shifted forms, damn Zercan, but with food on the brain there was no way he was stopping. Already Valerian was reaching for the first dead animal, scanning the forest floor for any sigh of the creature should he attack.

[praiseofblood]

Sita was already in the trees, skirting around to reach the limbs the male was on. Sita growled and pounced the theif, knocking him from the tree. He growled, snapping his formidible jaws at the male. He heard the male's cry before shifting and glaring at the...Majikadai? Sita didn't care, he just didn't want the bastard to steal his kills.

"Nehman anpg seit frest?! Who are you?" he frowned, pinning the man to the ground viciously.

[clementine]

Fuck, the kid was fast. Valerian grunt as the wind was knock out of him by the giant cat as he hit the ground, surprised to find that the humanoid form was much smaller. Val snarled back in answer into the boy's face, but mostly because his bad leg was pinned weird and fire was shooting up his hip.

Unable to dislodge the boy, Valerian spat in his face, hoping to startle him enough into easing his rather powerful grip.

[praiseofblood]

Sita growled and snapped his fist across the bigger male's face, pushing harder into him. "Answer me, you bastard! Who are you?" He growled.

[clementine]

Val's head jerked to the side, his lip splitting in a splash of blood. "Go...to hell." He growled back, suddenly jerking his hips upward and somehow managing to bounce the male off so he could squirm out from beneath him. Sometimes, size did matter for Valerian was already trying to scuttle away up a nearby tree.

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Sita jumped right back up before running up the trees right after the male, he was going to kill this bastard. Sita broke a limb from the tree before running after the male. He was just behind him, before he swung the limb, hitting the male in the head, knocking him out of the tree and unconscious.

Sita dropped the limb, panting as he glared down at the creature. He dropped down, looking his attacker over. He was...handsome, surprisingly. Sita looked him over and frowned at the bloody wound that was evident on his leg. The male's body showed signs of fatigue, and Sita cursed himself before hefting the big male up (after making sure he was really out) and pulled him to his tree. Sita tied the male to a sturdy limb, before redressing his leg, frowning at the wound. He used some Zerconian medicine, that both disinfected and helped heal the wound. He redressed it, before setting about cooking a bit of his kills and filling a canteen of cold water.

He returned to the male, splashing some water on his face and making him drink.

[clementine]

One minute he was in the middle of fleeing and the next he was waking up with the worse headache of his life with water being forced into his mouth. Valerian jerked awake, immediately tense as he coughed and sputtered from the water. Golden eyes were a little wild looking around for an escape before he realized he was tied up.

Valerian bared his teeth at the male before him, struggling at the tightly tied bonds.

[praiseofblood]

"Oh shut up," Sita said, frowning at the big male. He grabbed a couple of liquid capsules of asprin for the male's headache. "Take these, and don't refuse because I'm using precious supplies on you," he said. "I'm not untying you until you tell me who you are and why you were trying to steal from me." He said, placing the canteen down and going to grab the meat off the spit. He handed the stick to the male, because he had tied him around the midsection.

"Here." he said. "Though i shouldn't give this to you." he frowned.

[clementine]

Valerian took the medicine tentatively, face squished up in confusion and anger. He took the pills anyways, downing them with water from the canteen and hoping they didn't kill him. Val offered the Zercan more silence until the meat was offered and he was scarfing it down with loud eating noises as if hadn't had a proper meal in ages.

"Hunger. Obviously." Valerian rasped out the two words, voice low and a little dangerous sounding as he licked the stick and then his fingers clean of the meat.

[praiseofblood]

Sita handed the strange male the other stick before frowning at him. "No shit, I can see that." he said,rolling his eyes. "Who are you?" he asked, folding his arms.

[clementine]

Valerian actually gave the male a grateful look as he took the second piece. He ate the meat more slowly this time, thoughtfully almost. "No one." He finally muttered. And it was true. Although he was marked as a man and strong warrior, Val had no tribe. He had left them a long while ago because he didn't believe in some of the things that the chieftain was having the men do.

[praiseofblood]

Sita looked at the male as he pulled on his furs again. "No one won't get you untied. I'd like a name." he said, before sitting down to repair his spears.