A-Myst the Forest

[Little Rose]

Cassandra was too engrossed with helping this other person to notice anyone coming upon her, despite neither having the ability to do so. When she felt the tapping on her shoulder she locked up out of fear - which has not completely subsided from her experience with the fountain - and turned around quickly. She began to backup frightfully away from him, but a tree stopped her firmly. Her hands went from her sides to folded across her chest, she could feel her heart pounding against her palm. “Mon Dieu, Monsieur! You scared me.” She exclaimed, trying to compose herself once more.

He gathered she wasn’t the sentry type. Even if she was, she clearly was more ‘Flight’ than ‘Fight’ type. The girl in question didn’t look particularly impressive at all if Dane was going, to be honest with himself. She was attractive in her own way, probably made most guys turn their heads without a second thought. However, she was timid and on the short side. He couldn’t help but imagine a rabbit who has been snuck up on and cornered by a hunter. Be the wolf or man, she had been caught off guard rather well.

Shh... Dane’s voice whispered inside her mind. With it, he sent her mind on a rollercoaster back into time, where a man once did much the same. Myst’s mind she stared back in the face of a mane with endless silver hair and long nails whose hand reached out the same way that Dane’s did. Who’s voice she heard was hard to define, but it said. ’I am not here to hurt you.’

Myst’s heart still raced, but she felt a lot more trusting at this point and even took his hand. Dane smiled as genuinely as a Psychopath like him could. “Pardon moi, I waz not expecting someone to be standing behind me.”

“That’s alright, Miss. I do that to a lot of people. What are you two doing out here?”

“I was just inquiring this young woman if she knew the way around this place..” Renko interrupted. Turning to the… Gentleman. “Would you possibly know how that I may leave this place?”

Dane blinked very slowly at the new person. If only because of how boring that was. He pointed towards the same way that Myst had earlier. “That way.” He said, giving her the broadest and possibly the rudest vague answer her could. This did not go well with Renko, but Dane couldn’t be bothered. He found the one who fearfully ran away more interesting. “What about you miss?” He brought it back around to the French girl, even pulling her along towards his friend and her pet.

Myst felt a little flushed that he was giving her so much attention but followed along as to not be rude, despite the display her escort was portraying. “Ah... I just, how you say… Arrived here? Om-” She stopped wondering if she would sound crazy…

“Ah, so you are new-new. That might explain why you are so jumpy. Yeah, Omni keeps things interesting around here.” He continued to lead her away from the tree. “This is called The Tangled Greens. It’s your typical jungle/forest setting. Not much at all here to do.” He informed the new girl.

Sandy nodded, noting he sounded like he knew what he was talking about. “And no water.” She added.

“There has to be water somewhere, logically, but that’s mute point because Primes don’t really need water for survival,” Dane informed her.

Myst blinked, before sending a musical laugh into the air as she realized the mix-up. “Non. I mean there are no large bodies of water around.” Then in an act of trust, she continued, getting a little more shy about what she had to say. “See, I can’t swim. And I almost drowned at the fountain. These two men helped me out, but it was traumatique.” Her French accent still shining through.