[ You'd have to be deaf to have not heard the scream; enhanced hearing had nothing to do with it, and Laura pauses in her steps outside the coffee shop where she was headed to grab a coffee, glancing around. No one else seems to have heard it, but that makes no sense. There's something else going on.
Laura makes her way to the woods, not bothering to hide her steps. Whatever made that noise is either long gone or dead, considering they haven't made it again, and she snaps a twig under her boot when she hears the noise of something else that isn't one of the woodland creatures that call the forest their home. She's upwind, but the scent of blood and at least three people is strong enough to reach her nose anyway and she stops when she comes across him. He's only a few feet away, but he looms in front of her anyway.
Daken. She curls a hand into a fist, and starts moving again, brushing past him as she answers his question. ] Yes.
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Laura makes her way to the woods, not bothering to hide her steps. Whatever made that noise is either long gone or dead, considering they haven't made it again, and she snaps a twig under her boot when she hears the noise of something else that isn't one of the woodland creatures that call the forest their home. She's upwind, but the scent of blood and at least three people is strong enough to reach her nose anyway and she stops when she comes across him. He's only a few feet away, but he looms in front of her anyway.
Daken. She curls a hand into a fist, and starts moving again, brushing past him as she answers his question. ] Yes.