Can You Stop It? [V x S] [1x1]

[Shiningdragon21]

As Aurum finished the food she had decided on eating, Kael got up to put away the rest of the food into his pack. He also went about putting up anything else that remained out of it besides the bed roll. Her offer of giving him a ride for a moment brought a more sensual visual to his mind, that he quickly waved away. There travel's would happen soon enough and the prospect of a quickened travel atop Aurum's dragon form was in many ways an appealing one. Moving over to the bed roll, Kael sat on one side of it.

Sitting there Kael simply let his mind wander while he waited for Aurum to be good to go. In her company it was hard to wonder if a war was truly going on between their races. Had he not seen many of the atrocities first hand, that fact may have been a simple joke someone came up with. For a brief minute the visuals of a village that he had visited with his father as a young lad filled his mind. The village, a border town, had been attacked by beasts and utterly destroyed. None had survived the slaughter when they had arrived. After a bit of remembering Kaelthas shook his head to remove the images from his mind. His current travel companion wasn't like that it seemed. So atleast that had put him at ease but the rest of her kind still worried him.  

[Shiningdragon21]

Not looking back in responsed to the huff that Aurum gave, the prince lowered his head some. After a few moments he felt the light tugging on the back of his hair. She was likely asleep again using his hair absentmindedly. It wasn't disliked, as the prince sat there focusing on it. She felt like a cat in what she was doing, an action and thought that brought a slow smile to his face.  

[Shiningdragon21]

Feeling Aurum move about and plop onto his back he kept still until she stood up. Moving in turn he went about putting the bedroll up into his pack. "Something wrong with flight currently?" Unlike his dragon companion, his own senses were not attuned to picking up the sounds of battle that had faded with them long before they had bed down for the night. "Not feeling up to it, or simply spoke of it to get a tad bit more shut eye?" While he didn't care one way or another if they would be moving on foot or thru the the air, if the later wasn't to be used he would have preferred her not offer it's means.  

[Shiningdragon21]

"I figured your hide would be strong enough to deflect most arrows not fired from something like a minotaur." He hadn't gotten a good look at the dragon's scales when they had first met. A part of him cursed himself for not studying her more in that form. If he had a good deal of information he may be able to create a book detailing beasts more. "Really? Huh I would think letting the princess rest her eyes a bit more against the battery of the sun's rays would have buttered her up some." A small grin grew across his face as she got in line with him. Stepping off he headed in the direction of the next town. His path was a tad bit towards a larger hill he had seen that would allow him to get a good look at the surrounding area's should the top be mostly clear.  

[Shiningdragon21]

Her sudden silence made him look over his shoulder. She could obviously either hear, or sense, something he himself could not. The some what far away look was enough evidence of the fact. From her prior speak of being gutted it was likely that she could hear the battles in the distance. Looking back forwards they continued their trek. After nearly two hours had pasted they had arrived at the point he had wanted to find. The hill was in fact rather large and took nearly thirty minutes for them to arrive on top of. "This should do the trick" Kael muttered as he dropped his pack and dug into it quickly. After a few moment he pulled out a telescope to survey the land around them finally. With the device he was able to see the fighting in the distance much closer tho barely able to make much out from the distance they had traveled to.  

[Shiningdragon21]

Still gazing thru the telescope, the prince had payed little mind to Aurum's sudden want to leave. What would make her want to leave at a hurried pace? He instead of moving continued looking thru the telescope until something caught his attention. It was something out of the ordinary, there was a group it seemed following the path that Aurum and him had been taking towards the village. The fact that it was near exact was what was troubling him. There was from what he could tell about 6 people in the group with one of them kneeled down doing something. What he was unable to tell. Watching them further tho showed that the kneeling figure stood up and pointed in the direction of the pair. That was, likely not a good sign to see. "Maybe your right" Kael muttered closing the telescope down as he tossed it in his pack. Looking around he had noted that he had just spoken to no one as Aurum it seemed had rushed farther down the hill. "Have you made any enemies of recent" Kael asked as he rushed down the hill towards her.  

[Shiningdragon21]

"I would honestly rather you do neither. I don't know how you usually go about things but as a human in the kingdom of beasts I would rather not do anything to draw any real attention to my presence. That and blood is a hard thing to cover with the few beasts scents that I have." While Aurum may have been one to kill easily, Kael himself had done nothing of the sort during his lifetime. He had the means to but never saw a reason for it. Following after Aurum, Kael looked behind him every so often to try to dissolve their trail as best he could. Usually a few quick swipes of his feet to rake over their footprints.