The waters of the stream were clean and transparent so Aria decided to stop there for a moment, kicking her shoes off to plunge her feet into the icy water. She let it wash over her skin and gave content sigh -- after five days of running around after monsters, her feet hurt quite a bit and she was grateful for the cold relief. Her clothes, a white shirt and silvery camouflage trousers, were sticking to her shimmering form and her black hair was wild, the white streak falling between her eyebrows.
Heaving her backpack off her sore shoulders, she gathered water in her hands and splashed it on her face, the cold reviving the pores of her skin. She batted her eyelids once and already the world seemed clearer -- sharper. Icier. She could feel everything perfectly from the shape of the thickets to the whisper of the pebbles at the bottom of the stream. The wind laid on her tongue the taste of the faintest herbs and musks, which gathered against her palate to mix with the other aromas of the forest: pine, bark, leaves, sap, wild mushrooms, earth, ferns and bugs, lizards and wildflowers. It felt like a thick syrup in the back of her mouth, both sweet and disgustingly foul.
Suddenly, she tensed. Something was coming... It was not a deer but it was too tall to be rabbit or a raccoon. The sounds of the breaking undergrowth told her it was walking on two legs... she smelled hair, dirty skin, and something else... wolf musk. Perking up, she turned around and faced the coming creature, curious to see what would come out of the thicket.
Heaving her backpack off her sore shoulders, she gathered water in her hands and splashed it on her face, the cold reviving the pores of her skin. She batted her eyelids once and already the world seemed clearer -- sharper. Icier. She could feel everything perfectly from the shape of the thickets to the whisper of the pebbles at the bottom of the stream. The wind laid on her tongue the taste of the faintest herbs and musks, which gathered against her palate to mix with the other aromas of the forest: pine, bark, leaves, sap, wild mushrooms, earth, ferns and bugs, lizards and wildflowers. It felt like a thick syrup in the back of her mouth, both sweet and disgustingly foul.
Suddenly, she tensed. Something was coming... It was not a deer but it was too tall to be rabbit or a raccoon. The sounds of the breaking undergrowth told her it was walking on two legs... she smelled hair, dirty skin, and something else... wolf musk. Perking up, she turned around and faced the coming creature, curious to see what would come out of the thicket.
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