Seclusion

[Ryuna]

Ryuna had chosen this place for the calm and bright surroundings. She had always loved the sound of the waves and the feel of water lapping over her skin. Ignoring the annoyance of the people around her that she strove to avoid, Fijion would probably be her favourite place in the world.

Ryuna headed out to the beach with her complimentary towel from the resort she was staying at. She wore a black and orange bikini underneath a light black beach wrap around her hips along with a pair of shades.

She found a place a ways away from any form of human life and laid her towel on the sand. She took off the wrap and folded it up, placed it at one end of the towel to use as a pillow as she lay down upon her setup. She stared up at the sky that had only a few white clouds here and there as she began to close her eyes and drift off into a relaxing nap.

[Myrra]

"Ahack!" Myrra vomited out all the salt water she had swallowed, forcing her elbows to stiffen up so she could pull herself and get her face off the sand. Her hair haywire as usual, only now very wet and heavy, plus infested with sand. Probably a few seaweeds too.

She was carried off by the wave to the shore thankfully after a rather desperate attempt to flee from an oncoming bounty hunter. The redhead somehow ended up on top of a cliff, and since she rather died drowning than being shot, the girl dived headfirst down the cliff. What's funny is she's still alive and well now. Except there's slight bruises on her arms and legs, probably by the waves that smashed her against rocks or corals on the way to shore.

Myrra just lay there for a while, catching her breathing and reminding herself what had happened, while trying to find the reason why the universe wants her alive after that sever jump. Naturally, she soon filled her head with the illusion that the bounty hunter could be standing right there beside her, aiming his gun to her, and the thought immediately made her stagger up on her feet to get away.

As she stood, she finally noticed someone laying down on the sand quite a few ways away, sleeping it seems. Myrra didn't want to wake that person up, so she ran around the the woman, though then her clumsiness takes it toll onto her that she tripped on a seashell and fell noisily.

[Ryuna]

Ryuna's eyebrows twitched inwards as she heard a noise. She calmly opened her eyes and sat up, an angered look plastered across her face. She turned her attention to the small girl who made noise that woke her up.

"You woke me up." She said a bit redundantly in an annoyed tone, glaring at the girl under her sunglasses. She slowly stood up on her towel with purpose of intimidating this girl as she was growing furious just seeing a human near her. "What are you doing coming around me?"

[Myrra]

Myrra could feel goosebumps creeping through her skin when she realized she woke that person up. Actually, the redhead's very close to tears when the lady stood infuriatingly, seeming very pissed off.

"I...I-I..I!" She was so scared, she wanted to just run off, but just as she pushed herself up, she fell down again. Tears had already escaped her eyes when Myrra brings her head up from the sand, her leg hurts. She must have sprained her ankle again, for the 7th time this week probably.

Myrra wouldn't dare to look at this lady again, just the feeling of being glared at is enough to send the little girl to tears, so facing this person might just make her hyperventilate. Or faint.

"I was h-hunt..hunted.." No matter how scared she is, if someone asked her a question, she would try her best to answer. Her brother had raised her like that. "I-I'm sorry!" she apologized for waking the woman up, without looking at her at all, and then began to slowly crawl away.

[Ryuna]

The small girl reminded Ryuna of some sort of porcupine or other similar and timid woodland creatures. However, the fact that she was a human still kept her on edge and pissed at her. She noticed the girl fell when she tried to stand, speculating it was due to a possible leg injury. It was when she said she was hunted that Ryuna put the pieces together about her leg. The fact that she was hunted also tugged at a tiny string inside Ryuna. She hated humans and knew that it must be humans hunting her because she spitefully saw hunting as a human act.

Ryuna looked down at the little porcupine girl now trying to crawl away, making her resemble a porcupine even more. "Where are you going?" She said in an annoyed tone. Although she sounded angry, her motive for questioning was somehow sincere.

[Myrra]

Myrra flinched when the woman spoke again, now with a very sharp and irritated tone. She paused her crawling, her arms that's holding her upper body up are pretty much shivering now that she noticed. "I...I-I.. I d-d-don't...k-know..." The redhead stuttered, very frightened as she recoiled, thinking that answer might not be good enough.

So Myrra looked up forward, to see exactly where she's heading, and noticed there's a couple of large boulders in between some palm trees on her way a few distance off. She knows she can't make it through there, so she has to make a complete turn to get around the palm trees...which means she has to go through this angry lady.

"Uhm...p-possibly the...infirmary...p-perhaps.." Myrra rephrased her answer unsurely, and then turned her head to finally face the woman. "I..I'm terribly sorry...f-for a-awakening..you.." The small girl then turned her whole body towards Ryuna to give a sort of bow, then pulled herself through the sands slowly to the woman, to crawl as fast as she can passing this lady.

[Ryuna]

Ryuna watched the little porcupine as she listened to her story, feeling better about her thoughts of wanting to help the girl if she thought of her as a porcupine and not a human.

When the porcupine was finished and began to crawl back towards Ryuna to pass her, Ryuna let out a small sigh. She reached down towards the girl when she was next to her and got her hand past her hair to grab onto the girl's shirt and lifted her up. She looked at the girl annoyedly again, trying to remind herself to think of her as a porcupine.

"Fine." Ryuna said after a moment. "Infirmary it is." She set the girl on the her feet, assuming at least one of her legs would work then went to grab her beach wrap and tied it around herself as she headed back to the porcupine, making sure she didn't try to crawl off again then squatted in front of her. "Get on, porcupine." Ryuna said, waiting for the girl to climb onto her back so that she could take her to the infirmary.

[Myrra]

Myrra can't help but to let out a tiny squeak when she felt herself being pulled up to her feet, her tears streaming out freely again at the imagination of what the angry lady will do to her, but..

"..U-Uh..?" It surprises her, when the woman..agreed? Somehow? It confuses the redhead more and more, she forgot her foot is in pain when standing up like that. Though thankfully, her balance point is just right the way Ryuna put her down like that, so she didn't fell over unconsciously.

It astonished Myrra even more when the lady literally squatted in front of her, ordering her to get on...and addressing her a porcupine? 'Huuuuhhhh?!' Her eyes would have been in that swirly state if she wasn't so scared of the lady to begin with. Fear is definitely stronger than confusion in her subconscious, so she took a moment to stare at the backside of the waiting woman in front of her.

"A.....A-ahn.. Uh.. B-but.." With her senses now back, Myrra could now feel the stinging pain of her foot. So, she lost her balance and fell right to the front, on the woman's back. In reflex, she squeaked again, closing her eyes so tight, she wished she blacked out.

[Ryuna]

When Ryuna felt the porcupine fall against her, she wrapped her arms under the girl to lift her up. Ryuna leaned forward a bit to make sure the girl wouldn't fall off as she stood up. "Hold on." Ryuna instructed, waiting for the girl to comply before beginning to walk.

Ryuna had memories of flying through the sky when she had someone on her back and thought of how much easier it was then than now. She let out a small huff at the memory and started to walk a bit faster, making it off the sand and continuing her way to the infirmary.

She didn't want to ask the girl who was after her or why because she assumed the girl's answer would only annoy her. The less she knows about the porcupine and her situation, the easier it is to get herself to help the girl.

[Myrra]

"Y-yes.." Myrra complied every order that was given to her with a nervous nod, and just braced herself as the woman stood and lifted her on her back, then began walking towards the infirmary.

The redhead wanted to say something, but she's so scared, her tongue won't work. Though, being honest with herself, it certainly has been a while to feel this feeling; of being protected. Somehow, even just touching another human being, overwhelms the little girl that she's going to be safe.

"Uh...um.. A-are you angry?" Myrra noticed how fast the lady is walking now, so something must have bothered her. "..Is it because of me..?" She constantly apologizes, even for things that wasn't meant to be. But she remembered her brother's words, to always make sure what she did wrong first, and then apologize.

That's why she tends to ask questions a lot.

[Ryuna]

Ryuna walked in much loved silence for a little bit before the girl finally spoke. Her eyebrows twitched in slight annoyance at her little human voice. Ryuna didn't want to answer. She was angry in a way but that didn't matter because she had decided to help this little porcupine girl.

"I hate humans." Ryuna finally replied in an angry tone, questioning why she decided to help this girl again. "The only reason I'm helping you is because you looked like a frightened porcupine." She said truthfully and to the point to the girl, not wanting to continue talking as she made her way.

[Myrra]

Myrra's eyes stays wide and static when this woman admitted that she despises human, in quite an angry tone that Myrra just shriveled up there. A squeak was threatening to escape her throat, but she desperately tries to hold it back.

The redhead listened to the motive of why this lady is helping her in the first place, and sort of shrunk at the realization of that. Her shoulders hunched and her head drops as she frowned of that fact, never would she thought it would be possible for someone to help her by imagining she's a forest critter.

As Myrra looked sideways by chance since she's leaning her head on one of her shoulders, she saw something moving there within the grass. "AH!!" Automatically clutching tightly to the woman, the little girl pointed to the area east of them. "There's something there!!"

The woman had walked passed the sandy beach and reached a more grassy part of the ground. Being such a paranoid person, Myrra's senses is heightened from normal people due to her unusual fright of almost everything. She stared at the area warily, and not long, a hissing sound could be heard.

[Ryuna]

Ryuna was surprised at Myrra's sudden shriek and stopped in place as the girl clung onto her. She looked back annoyingly at the girl then followed her arm in the direction of the movement. "Be very quiet and calm down." Ryuna crouched down and reached her arm out towards the movement as her entire body calmed down to appear very serene and calm as thought nothing could disturb her.

A slow movement of a snake emerged from the brush and slithered towards Ryuna's outstretched hand. Its forked tongue hissed out of its mouth to get a sense of Ryuna's hand and what she was about. Assuming safety with the foreign object, the snake slowly climbed onto Ryuna's hand and wrapped itself up along her arm towards her face. Ryuna stared with a very gentle face at the snake that hissed out its tongue again to get a better sense of her.

Ryuna brought her other hand up towards the snake and it inspected that hand also before switching over to that arm. She cradled the snake somewhat in her arms with it wrapped around both as she slowly turned to face the other side. She gently lowered her arms towards the ground and the snake very calmly slipped off of her arms and continued to make it's way across the land. Ryuna managed the tiniest hint of a smile as she watched the snake go.

She almost forgot about the girl on her back until she felt the weight again and reached behind herself to help keep the girl up as she stood back up. Feeling a lot calmer than before, Ryuna continued to make her way across the plains, saying nothing of what just happened.

[Myrra]

Calming down is an order that is very VERY hard for a person like Myrra to comply, considering of how paranoid she naturally is. When Ryuna crouched down, Myrra's feet touched the ground and the girl could balance herself half-standing and half-leaning.

She almost shrieked again when a snake came out in view and move towards this stranger's arm. Myrra, now severely frightened, lets go of Ryuna's shoulders slowly as to not disturb the snake and managed to balance herself with the sprained foot without touching the woman.

The sight of Ryuna getting friendly with such a dangerous reptile almost made Myrra fainted...while standing. Or maybe she had. But a small part of Myrra is deeply moved by how skilled she is in handling such a lethal creature. Myrra could see the especially tranquil expression on Ryuna's face and to say the least, was astounded.

When the snake was released and slithered off, the balance that Myrra gained let off and she gently fell behind Ryuna, who seemed to just remember about the redhead and reached behind before standing up again to carry the little girl off.

Myrra was still stunned speechless. It's very clear to see that she's still scared, since her skin is cold as ice now and quivering slightly. Even her breathing is ragged, and her eyes started to water by how immensely scared she is, possibly the after-shock of having such a scare.

"A-a-a-are you....o-okay..?"

[Ryuna]

Ryuna kept walking at a steady pace with the little porcupine girl on her back. She could feel the girl shaking slightly and heard the fear in her voice as she spoke. "Of course I'm okay." Ryuna said, a bit annoyed at such a stupid question. "Consider various animals to be friends of mine if you wish as I used to be one." She said very matter-of-fact.

She used to be not just any animal but a beautiful, large, dark gray dragon. She loved the form she once was but has hated humans throughout both of her lives because of the man who had obtained her and those who fought against him with no regard to the dragons he had control over. Her body grew tense at the memories that piled up and anger seethed in her eyes as she walked on.