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Medicine Deer
Huntress
PantherClaw Taluna Lair
--in the jungle East of the Exchange Point--
to .Ashai.
: ...I am grinding my teeth..."Aye, Hun...they spoke peace...and then tried to collar me". I listen for more sounds, and then hear Billi give a distressed whistle. I suddenly hear Talunas moving in all around us, and I look at you with a look of resignation. I place the arrow back into my quiver, and then toss my weapons onto the ground in front of me. "I suggest that you do the same, Ashai...we are surrounded". As I finish, you see Talunas emerge from all around us...nocked arrows pointing at us...
(23:04:20 )
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Medicine Deer
Huntress
PantherClaw Taluna Lair
--in the jungle East of the Exchange Point--
to .Ashai.
: ...I give a quick whistle, telling Billi to beat feet...and then stand, proudly...I am the PantherClaw Huntress...
(23:04:49 )
.Ashai.
--in the jungle East of the Exchange Point--
to ________Fire Water______
: *I nodded once in understanding. My face grew solid and I did drop the scimitar. I was not going to give up, even if we were not going to fight. I took your lead, glancing at them. They obviously had not seen an Egyptian much like myself*
(23:06:10 )
.Ashai.
--in the jungle East of the Exchange Point--
to ________Fire Water______
: *I had no reason not to be proud either...but of course I always so, brazen and bold.*
(23:11:15 )
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Medicine Deer
Huntress
PantherClaw Taluna Lair
--in the jungle East of the Exchange Point--
to .Ashai.
: ...Their 'Huntress' emerges...she is a lovely blonde who looks us over, and then gestures to several of her girls to come over and gather up our weapons. I am surprised when she hands you your scimitar back, and lets me keep one of my quivas. But, we are kept in the middle of very heavily armed Talunas. The 'Huntress' looks at me, "We will allow you and your escort to retain some of your weapons...for the moment...but I suspect that you will both be screaming your lives out at sundown tomorrow, as we impale you both".
(23:12:59 )
.Ashai.
--in the jungle East of the Exchange Point--
to ________Fire Water______
: *I turned watching the girls, and then met the one who moved forward. I am wary, but take teh scimitar back after a moment, and string it on my waist again. I glanced to you at their words, knowing women like this were not always interested in the words of men. Indeed, I had hoped there would be screaming but not of death. Could we barter with them? Ally with them?
(23:20:02 )
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Medicine Deer
Huntress
PantherClaw Taluna Lair
--in the jungle East of the Exchange Point--
to .Ashai.
: ...I glare balefully back at the other Huntress, and set my quiva back in my sheathe. I have a sense of resignation...since leaving my home, I have sensed that my destiny was to die, screaming, feeling the wooden shaft of a spear pierce my body, until the tip almost emerges from my mouth. I keep my proud stance, I am a Princess of the Yellow Knives, and will not show fear. "Well, Huntress, take us to your Lair Leader, where I may speak to someone who matters!" I almost snarl at the blonde. You hear the Huntress return the snarl, and she pulls out her quiva..."Knife rights", she calls out.
(23:21:55 )
.Ashai.
--in the jungle East of the Exchange Point--
to ________Fire Water______
: *comparisons of pride between sexes was fairly unimportant as of now. I grunted, and stepped out of the way...feeling eyes shift to you two, but something in me wished to vie for it, to try to appease this one somehow and seduce her. I did not, though; I knew you knew these rights better than I do...and would follow your lead*
(23:24:59 )
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Medicine Deer
Huntress
PantherClaw Taluna Lair
--in the jungle East of the Exchange Point--
to .Ashai.
: ...I pull out my quiva, and shriek the shrill warcry of my people as I move towards the other Huntress...my knife is held in my right hand, in a reversed position, as I lower my body into a fighting stance. At the shriek of 'Knife Rights', the other girls back away, and one girls pulls gently at your arm to not interfere.
(23:25:55 )
.Ashai.
--in the jungle East of the Exchange Point--
to ________Fire Water______
: *I recognized that tone of your voice. Furious ferocity. I glanced to the girl who tugged my arm, and backed from you both.
(23:30:49 )
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Medicine Deer
Huntress
PantherClaw Taluna Lair
--in the jungle East of the Exchange Point--
to .Ashai.
: ..We circle each other, somehow the scene is very sensual, two, lovely women who are going to fight to the death. The other Huntress is taller than me, and her blue eyes are watching me, and she smiles, confident that she can take the small red savage that she is seeing. My dark hair is in the hunting braid, and the feathered ornament falls over my back, the single white feathered showing among the darker feathers. You see my dark eyes exulting...fights like this I love, and the spirit of 'White Painted Woman' seems to emanate from me.
(23:33:26 )
.Ashai.
--in the jungle East of the Exchange Point--
to ________Fire Water______
: *knowing me it was more than sensual. But I didn't have a wish to see you dead, either. My body seemed to bulge with restraint, muscles flexed, the oiled animal in me awake and vibrant, still. I watched, gauging both of your movements, strength, speed, and waiting for the fight to be over.*
(23:34:31 )
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Medicine Deer
Huntress
PantherClaw Taluna Lair
--in the jungle East of the Exchange Point--
to .Ashai.
: ...She steps in, and jabs, and I barely avoid it. I return with a thrust, and she easily avoids it. The tall Huntress returns with a swipe, and I step back, gasping as a cut is opened over my left forearm. The blonde grins, and calls out, "this won't take long, scouts, we will have a new thrall to serve us".
(23:35:48 )
.Ashai.
--in the jungle East of the Exchange Point--
to ________Fire Water______
: *I remained still, not wanting to provoke the others who watched. Another new scar for you; you would love it, and you would win no doubt. I did not seem to react to her goad; she'd soon find out like you I was no thrall, after I seduced her to a panting kajira in an hour or two. I hoped that while she had her attention off of you, and on me, you'd kill her.
(23:35:52 )
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Medicine Deer
Huntress
PantherClaw Taluna Lair
--in the jungle East of the Exchange Point--
to .Ashai.
: ...Several Talunas move in, and one removes your scimitar, and three others hold the tips of their spears to your torso.
(23:37:04 )
.Ashai.
--in the jungle East of the Exchange Point--
to ________Fire Water______
: *still I was immobile. I knew how to fight, and knew when to. I let the scimitar be taken-again--and feared not a spear pointed at me.
(23:42:33 )
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Medicine Deer
Huntress
PantherClaw Taluna Lair
--in the jungle East of the Exchange Point--
to .Ashai.
: ...I pant as I back away from the Huntress, showing a look of desperation. I lower my guard, and she lunges forward, looking to bury her quiva into my ribs. Her eyes open wide as I quickly move to her left, avoiding the right hand thrust, and then her last thoughts are seeing my quiva thrusting for her throat. She can't avoid it, as I had used her clumsy move to get close to her, and my quiva meets it's mark...entering the Talunas throat, and slicing the brainstem. The woman is dead before she hits the ground. I stop for a moment, my feigned exhaustion gone, and I reach down and pull the quiva free from the dead Huntress. I hold it up, and hold my left arm up and lick the blood from the shallow cut on my left arm..."Who's next?" I coo in my soft alto.
(23:44:13 )
.Ashai.
--in the jungle East of the Exchange Point--
to ________Fire Water______
: *I smirked, a grim victory but at least you had another little mark to heal. I slapped one of the spears to the ground from thsoe pointed at me, and was tempted to fight more, but did not. Surely now they would listen to your talks*
(23:48:01 )
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Medicine Deer
Huntress
PantherClaw Taluna Lair
--in the jungle East of the Exchange Point--
to .Ashai.
: ...The girls back away from you, and the one who had taken your scimitar hands it back to you. They gather a bit away, and regard us. In Panther and Taluna culture, the challenge of "Knife Rights" meant a lot. It was especially important that their Huntress had given the challenge. Had I given it, and won, they could have all just stepped back and hurled their spears...by getting their Huntress to challenge me, I had advanced to become their 'Huntress".
(23:51:02 )
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