[PRP] Briar Rose (Solia and Aurel)

[Kyribird]

Aurel hadn't gone...looking for the haunted house, per se. He had been open to it, because he needed to know all he could about Hunters despite Amrita's warning. He had not expected it to happen so fast. So, when he took the hallway and found himself somewhere that was definitely not Amityville he knew where he was.

Kind of.

Sort of.

Maybe.

After hours of searching, he hadn't...actually come across anything of interest. At least until the green house came into his vision. Well. May as well not be a total bust. Aurel took a breath and opened the door only to see a human there.

At least, Aurel assumed she was a human. She didn't...smell the same. And she didn't really appear to be dangerous. "Are you a hunter?" He said bluntly, finding no room to pussyfoot around.

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[Kyribird]

"Flowers are a thing," he said, eyeing the crown of flowers that she had in her now bleeding hand. Blood did not bother the Lesovik, however - and while normally he'd chastise for pulling up flowers and killing them he had other things on his mind.

Her nervous speech was a surprise. The way Amrita had described hunters had basically been that they were dangerous creatures to not engage with at all. This ghoul seemed more interested in flowers (much like himself) than anything else. Impossibly bright green eyes trailed down to get a good look at her and he pursed his lips for a moment, not sure what to say or do.

"You cannot put flowers back. Once you cut them, you have killed them." He said instead, indicating to the cut ends of the buds. "How can you be a hunter and not have fought anyone?" That didn't make any sense.

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[Kyribird]

"You said you did not, and not you are saying that you have. Only one of those statements can be true." He squinted at the hunter. She was kind of making a mess of explaining things. Given Aurel only knew the history that was told to him second hand, as far as he knew hunters were something to fear. He did not take lying well, either.

Aurel watched her put the flowers down on the ground and exhaled a breath, moving to pick them up and pet at their petals with his index finger. "Návrat na Zem." He mumbled quietly at them, giving them a sad look. He didn't have time to sing them a proper song. It wasn't the place for that.

Attention was put back on Solia, "Why do your kind fight us?"

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[Kyribird]

"I told them to return to the Earth," he said simply, placing them back beside the roots of the tree. "Sometimes I can talk to plants and make them feel better? But. There's nothing you can do when their connection to the Earth is gone."

"Find a new job, then." He said bluntly. That was just common sense. If she didn't like it, don't...do it?

Aurel looked back toward Solia, brows furrowing at the Frankenstein reference. Nope, he'd never read any books through and he was pretty sure he never would because reading was hard. "I would tell you not to be afraid but then we would not exist. Your fear is a good thing, though much of it is for no reason." There were some rogue creatures that hurt humans but as far as he knew, for the most part, they were far and few between. Granted, he lived in a forest most of his life so what did he know?
 

[Kyribird]

"Your kind have hurt someone I care for, and others that she cares for. I will take allies where I can." He decided that she was safe, for now, but he was still cautious.

He promised Amrita, after all.

Aurel was drawn to the bow, however, green eyes locking onto it. Covered in roses and a bow. Ok. That was cool. "You use a bow. So do I." It made his life easier when he went out to hunt. Easier than setting traps and waiting for things to come through and step in them. "But mine is more practical." Smirk. The indication to sit with her was met with a shake of his head. He didn't trust her, yet.

"Aurel."

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[Kyribird]

Normally, Aurel would have been all over teaching someone how to use a bow. However, being she was who she was, he wasn't going to teach the enemy how to more effectively use a weapon against them. "You will get better, it takes practice. And arm strength." That was about as good as she was going to get out of him.

"I am a Lesovik." He stated, crossing his arms over his bare chest and watching her quietly. The inner florapuppy in him wanted to befriend everyone - but he was trying so hard to be more careful. Trusting everyone was a really hard habit to break. "We are demons who guard the forest and all that inhabit it."

So, somewhat similar to a druid - but he didn't have all sorts of magic powers. He could make himself and his surroundings change and look different but that was pretty much it.

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[Kyribird]

"I have only known one other, and he was much larger than me. And old. And had a very bad attitude and hated humans and people and everything, really." Elder had threatened to kill him more often than not. His kind did not tolerate others in their territory very well and only in rare circumstances.

"Uh. In a way? Plants don't...talk. Not in the way that you think they do." Mostly, they emoted. He felt them, more than heard them. Hell, they may have talked - but his kind certainly couldn't understand the language.

Aurel watched her draw a rune in the mud and tilted his head, moving a bit closer - curiosity getting the better of him. "What was that?"

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