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Allen agrees with that. "Then let's stay away from corners, as suggested."
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"No corner-cutting," he agrees, adding: "The corners are spared for today." He makes a brief X shape with two fingers, though the gesture is perhaps one Allen cannot see unless he is paying meticulous attention to the mage's fingers. "Then...after you?"
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"I don't know the way," he says. "Unless you don't mind the possibility of going in circles or getting lost. No, not getting lost, just the other possibility."
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"I don't know the way either," Nagesh goes with a laugh. "I've accepted both possibilities, actually."
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"Then, I don't see harm in my trying to 'lead the way'. I will try my best."
With that, Allen straightens again and checks the surroundings to see where they'd be going. It's like he tries to get more detail than a normal scenenery-viewing look would give him.
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Lol, the narrator putting off responding for almost a month out of fears of descriptions.
"Great. If we do get lost, gods forbid, then I can use my very convenient abilities to get us back," Nagesh informs cheerfully. "It's not as if I have some taboo against using them."
Currently, they're basically on the side of the canyon, yeah? The narrator's memory is pretty hazy in terms of settings, which they don't do a good job of remembering at all. The way he's facing seems to be angled towards the edge of some forest, of course ended by the canyons again. The trees in said forest are surprisingly sparse. Perhaps there was some recent fire there, or maybe it's just out of the normalcy of the edge effect, where trees are more sparse near the edge anyways.
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((Bruh I'm sorry, long wait and short post here))
Allen gestures towards the edge trees.
"Let's head into the forest. It looks like a good way to follow."
He looks at Nagesh to make sure they both are ready to go.
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"Forests are always interesting," the mage agrees.
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Allen starts off at a moderate pace.
"I wonder what kind of wildlife is around. I've never been here before."
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"Hopefully, mostly docile ones," Nagesh says with an unperturbed grin.
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Allen feels a kind of connection to birds, unsurprisingly, so he hopes to see some of those. He nods as reply to Nagesh's comment.
He took care to step over a pretty large bush in his path.
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He shuffles to a halt, keeping an awareness towards the surroundings.
Some leaves rustle in the bush, and then suddenly a rabbit darts out at full speed, followed by another. Nagesh's eyes follow the two as they scamper away from where they had been hiding.
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Just mid-step, Allen freezes. He does not want to scare the rabbits more. Actually, there is a little guilt inside him for not being more attentive.
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The rabbits rush into some other shrubbery. One of the creatures' eyes can still be seen peeking out from the shrubbery if one's eyes are sharp enough to catch it.
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Allen doesn't move yet except for his eyes. He followed the rabbits' path with his sight.
He's surprisingly steady in his kind of awkward pose.
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On the other hand...
"You two should have run much before Allen stepped over your home," Nagesh...lectures...the rabbits as he turns towards them. He adds: "You also did not run far enough. You have been too negligent." He raises an eyebrow, though Allen can't really see the motion, seeing as Nagesh is now facing toward the two small creatures. "In addition...are your children in there?" he inquires, specifying: "Four?"
One of the rabbits' whiskers move a little. It's the smaller rabbit.
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A small smile forms on the shapeshifter's lips.
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Nagesh sounds fully baffled. "Did you just rush back to your home in full sight of two potential threats??" he questions, though it sounds much more rhetorical.
The smaller rabbit darts deeper into the shrubbery.
Well, this is the GGaD equivalent of a bruh moment.
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Is it not natural to go towards the place in which they feel safest? That would be their home.
Allen focuses his hearing in an attempt to figure out where the rabbits are by their movements.
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That is one shallow burrow.
Nagesh continues to be baffled.
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Now that he judges the rabbits feel safer, Allen moves back into a regular standing position. He looks in the burrow's direction for a moment. No, he reasons, they thought he was a threat of some sort so he shouldn't make himself more like one with his actions.
Allen lifts his head and checks on Nagesh instead.
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The mage is, as mentioned prior, quite baffled. However, the feeling doesn't quite establish itself anywhere. It's not in his eyes, not in his face, or anywhere in his posture. It's only conveyed by his stillness.
"May I ask why your burrow is so shallow?" he asks the rabbits. On the contrary to Allen, he turns to study them closely. They stare back. One has blue eyes; the other, brown. The smaller rabbit is the one with the dark blue eyes.
Another nose twitch. One shuffles a little to the side, rustling the leaves a bit more.