>>5796947Steps-Called-Feathers taps his wooden cane on the floor rhythmically as he thinks over your response. “Well if that’s the case, there must have been a reason correct? Given it was only your first hunt, I don’t suspect he’d ever give a younger hunter such a challenging quarry as a fully grown Stone-Death-Legs if there wasn’t something else he needed to take care of.”
As you try to remember the circumstances of your last meeting, something else comes to mind. “Now that I think of it, the Stone-Death-Legs seemed to have been acting strangely. Something that it encountered had forced it to molt its shell and shed its limbs, and there’s really no reason for such a Beast to be hanging so close to men when it’s not normally this aggressive.” The chief’s eyes widen with understanding as he follows your train of thought. “Then whatever this unknown creature was, it may be affecting more than one Beast. Perhaps Open-Both-Eyes was tracking another one of the Beasts.” Your mother joins in on this conversation at this point, adding “In that case, why not check his home? He barely ever stayed there as long as he could walk, but I know that man always has every single thing he learns written down somewhere.”
The plan is set then. Your mother forbids you from going there today, but they do agree to wait until tomorrow when you can hopefully move without every step causing you pain. You spend the rest of the day in bed, holding your new totem and rubbing the carvings on it with worry in your heart.
>1 Day has passed. Current Injuries: Broken Foot (9 days), Lacerated Muscle (5 days), Bruised Kidney (7 days). Current Projects: None. 