sableyed
ace hex maniac
- Joined
- Feb 4, 2015
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"It was kind of like that with me and Boo," Ruby said, adding a dried carcass of a log to her stack. "When I was eight or maybe nine my uncle took me spelunking for the first time. I got lost, of course." She pushed a red curl off her forehead. "Boo is kinda naughty... he had shadow sneaked up behind me to scare me, but I dunno, I guess he saw that I was already scared."
She had made a modest pile of firewood on top of a mossy boulder, and she stepped back to brush the dirt from her palms and inspect their haul. Together they had gathered enough give them an hour or two of heat, at least. The temperature seemed to be dropping rapidly, and she wrapped her jacket tighter around her shoulders and scanned the forest canopy.
"Anyway, he got me way more lost than I already was. I guess having a friend along for the adventure made it a lot more fun, though... we scared the crap out of the ranger that finally found me."
There was a tree stump up there somehow. Ruby squeezed her eyes shut and opened them again, wondering if the night was playing tricks on her. But no, there it was. It was levitating up above them, and as it turned she saw two glowing red eyes peering down curiously at her. "Leslie-Ann," she whispered, "Look... there's a phantump!"
Ruby thought for a second about the assortment of empty pokéballs in her bag, annoyed with herself for leaving them behind. As creepy forest spirits go, phantumps were probably the cutest.
She had made a modest pile of firewood on top of a mossy boulder, and she stepped back to brush the dirt from her palms and inspect their haul. Together they had gathered enough give them an hour or two of heat, at least. The temperature seemed to be dropping rapidly, and she wrapped her jacket tighter around her shoulders and scanned the forest canopy.
"Anyway, he got me way more lost than I already was. I guess having a friend along for the adventure made it a lot more fun, though... we scared the crap out of the ranger that finally found me."
There was a tree stump up there somehow. Ruby squeezed her eyes shut and opened them again, wondering if the night was playing tricks on her. But no, there it was. It was levitating up above them, and as it turned she saw two glowing red eyes peering down curiously at her. "Leslie-Ann," she whispered, "Look... there's a phantump!"
Ruby thought for a second about the assortment of empty pokéballs in her bag, annoyed with herself for leaving them behind. As creepy forest spirits go, phantumps were probably the cutest.