Midnight-black hair danced in the air currents moving past her as Lorelei's feet led her running and bounding through the branches of the trees making up the landscape she was currently passing through. She'd been a couple of days now on her journey, and so far she'd gotten rather lucky. She'd not yet found herself face to face with any of the monsters or creatures that she was certain still roamed the lands she'd been so long gone from. She knew that luck wouldn't last forever, however, and she had made certain to stock up as well as she'd been able, before leaving Duunstad. She had also taken the time to put her newly acquired Alchemy skills to work. She hadn't been able to produce much given her limited inventory and funds at the current time, but what little she had managed to make and fashion for herself she was sure she would find benefit for in some situation or another.
Pausing in her steps, her feet resting against a large branch in a vastly overgrown tree, she took a moment to untie the canteen at her waist and take a swig of the liquid within, before returning the canteen to its place on her belt. Flexing the palm of her left hand into a quick fist and back out again, she brought up her palm UI, using the interface to check her location on her map. It seemed she'd entered Eastern Brisshal. The area definitely seemed even more 'wild' than she recalled. She pondered as she closed her UI and prepared to head on her way, debating on rather she might stop at the next village she came across. She wasn't on any sort of quest at this time. Rather, she was simply exploring; enjoying finding new things in the world.
Her steps only drew her a few feet further, however, before she stopped once more, the halt to her actions sudden as her head whipped around and her elongated, elfin ears twitched. ~Screams?~ The thought was fleeting as she turned her course to take her towards the sounds, curious to see what might be going on to cause such a loud ruckus. A quick run and a few jumps across some longer branches brought her closer to the source as she heard the sounds growing louder. The surrounding area, she noted, had become less dense with trees and plant-life. The ground below her was damp, wet and covered in water in some places, and the roots that poked up from the large, twisted trees were massive. The branches of the trees themselves were just as overgrown and gnarled as the roots of the trees, and she found herself having to slow her course as she neared just close enough to see the source of the sounds she had heard.
Naught but a few yards before her she could see what appeared to be a young boy, and he had definitely found himself in a spot of trouble. Arriving just in time to see the green blob-like creature he was fighting split into two, as he swung the sword he carried into the disgusting thing, one of the now two creatures moving to -grab?- the kid. The other darted towards something or someone she couldn't quite make out at the distance she stood. Whom or whatever it was was tiny. She could tell that much. She didn't bother thinking much more about the situation as she reached back to pull her longbow from it's loop against her back. It was clear that the kid wasn't likely to get through this fight alone, at least as she could tell.
Slender fingers dipped into her quiver, pulling free one of the arrows she had placed there. The shaft of the arrow was nothing special. Hand hewed wood she had gathered herself. The 'feathers' of the arrow were made from a thin but sturdy stretch of some leaf she'd also come across. It was the arrows head that mattered in the current case, however. Instead of the standard piercing tip the danger end of the weapon had lashed onto the shaft a small vial. The liquid within a clear blue, swirling with silver flakes and glowing with a light that just about anyone would recognize as magical. Nocking the arrow, she drew the string of her bow back. Her stance was straight, sturdy as she released the string and let the arrow fly.
She watched the arrow's trajectory with a keen eyes, observing as it hit it's mark just below the area of the green slimy thing that held onto the boy. She wasn't close enough to see the vial burst, but she was close enough to see the green of the creatures -Skin? Flesh?- lighten in color, its movements becoming slower as the freezing drought that had been held in the vial took effect. A light smirk curled her lips as she bounded down from the tree she stood in, another arrow nocked and ready before her feet hit the ground. Drawing the string back once more, she sent the second arrow flying for the other creature as she started making her way closer to the boy. Her skills in alchemy were still quite low, so she had no guarantee if her potions would work for long, and she wasn't about to leave a kid to fight the things alone.
The second creature stopped in its pursuit of what she could only say was a fairy, as she finally reached a near enough distance to actually see the little thing. She hadn't paid much mind to what the boy had been shouting as she'd come upon them, she'd only made a decision to assist. His personality mattered not to her in the moment, as she fired off another arrow into the creature that held him, the gelatinous thing becoming more stiff as more of the green slime froze.
"Swing that sword, kid, get yourself out, before you can't." She shouted a fourth arrow leaving her bow and arching its way to the creature still closing in on the fairy.
"Name's Lorelei, I can assist, but I'm going to need cooperation." She shouted to the kid, not bothering to look and see if he'd made it free, as she concentrated her attacks on the other slime for the moment. The vile thing had stopped moving, which was a good thing, but Lorelei wasn't done, yet. Continuing her movements closer, she lifted her left leg and kicked the frozen slime as hard as she could, watching as it shattered into pieces beneath the blow. Then and only then did she return her attention to the boy, arrow at the ready, in case he'd not been able to free himself.
@Dynamax
