Shifter RPG

"The river." Cho said. "I just hope we're not to close to the serpent tribe.." she said, picking up her things, which in this case, was her feather and the bandages. The gemstone Falling had given her quite a while back was the only this she didn't pick up. She couldn't hold it in her hands without knowing that it was never meant to be. Also, instead of putting the feather in her hair, she put it in her pocket. She would always have it, but she couldn't wear it in pride any longer.

Haze grabbed his backpack, but left his hammock. He wouldn't need it. It gathered rain too easily. "You okay?" He asked Ava.

Ava nodded, but she was looking towards Cho. "She's not wearing her feather." she commented, her voice low. "She also forgot her gemstone.." but the look on Cho's face explain it all. She wasn't happy with herself.

Haze kept to a whisper. "She's fearing the worst. Don't worry. It's not time to worry yet."

Ava blinked. She wasn't sure if he was right, but she nodded. Cho always frets, no need for me to. And so, they headed off.

Falling walked fast, Haze noticed, as if he was in a real hurry. As if that calmness in his voice was fake...
Did he know?
The thought crept through his brain, and he held Ava closer.

Cho walked behind the group, trailing back every now and then, but speeding up if she did. She watched the ground as she walked.

Falling noted her fear and swelling paranoia. She was fearing him. But why? He re-thought the question. Based on her actions, she was hiding something. Something important.

Every once in a while her mind would bounce to back when falling was asleep, when nothing had to be a secret. Maybe it would've been better if Falling wasn't around.. The thought cheered her up, and not once anymore, did it put her down. She loved Falling, but she probably already ruined his life, so imagining a life without him seemed to dissolve most of her edging fear.

Haze felt uncomfortable near Falling now. The girl he loved was human. His other friend was half-human. If he found out, they'd all be dead.
At some point, he had to get them both either away from Falling, or have him killed. But something felt wrong...

She began to daydream, planning how she would be exiled and how she would meet Haze and the rest of them, without Falling. Some parts where difficult because it had mostly been Falling himself that did most of the talking, or had caused the problem, but she managed to work her way around them. She also imagined herself a full-shifter with a rank higher than house cat.

Shadow ascended, knowing it would be easier to guide them by air.

After a while, Cho had stopped dreaming. She was in a dazed mode, and when Ava asked if she was okay, Cho had nodded and smiled. Ava, who was surprised, would have doubled back if it wasn't for Hazes grip.

Haze smiled at her, but kept wary of Falling. The river shone blue-ish silver on the horizon.

Ava kept one eye on Cho, the other looking curiously at the river. Because of her injuries, she didn't look around too much. But she did enjoy what she did see.

The river, too, was like a wave of nostalgia for him. Zane, Damion, Maze and him had all camped there and discussed what their attack plan would be.
Of course, his party right now didn't know anything about his history. Just that he was old and left behind.

He shook off the thought, and planned to cross the river twice to get around the human settlement that rose seemingly straight out of the ground on their left.

Ava had caught sight of a squirrel and pointed, the squirrel, in fact, seemed to turn and face her, when she didn't feel Tear's questioning gaze.

Haze looked at where she was pointing and laughed, slightly scaring the squirrel.

Tear opened his mouth, then closed it again. Whatever the joke was, he didn't get it and decided he didn't want to either.

Shadow soared above them, disgusted by the humans' tall metal structures that laughed in the face of the Gods. He noted that the river was approaching fast, but there was something wrong with the banks...

Cho, who wasn't falling back anymore, longed to ask Ava a question.
Ava, though, wouldn't have been able to answer.

The problem came into sight, and Shadow almost cascaded into the ground. The humans had actually set up mining areas around the river as well as water mills. Amber River. With obstructions to power their greed.
It would be harder to cross, now.

Tear found himself wondering how the wolf shifter, Falling, had become exiled. Somehow, he knew it was related to Cho.

Shadow descended and blocked their path. "There are humans ahead. In mass numbers."

Tear scoffed silently. Ava eyed him.
Cho spoke.
"What do we do? Is there another path..?"