Week Twelve: Thursday Afternoon
Who: Ari and Kalli Where: Out by the lake When: Late Afternoon Why: Nature types being all nature like..
The elf was enjoying the break for all it was worth. No need to be indoors for most of the day. No need to perform ritual school work after hours as well. He would never quite understand why they felt the need for such things, it was so different than how his people taught their own. You were showed how to do something, and then expected to be able to do it. After a time of practice, of course. No text books, no read this chapter, none of that. And of course, no finals to cram for. Though, his clan did have something similar to ‘finals’. The final test his father gave him for his survival training was one he would never forget. Of course, then that had been the idea.
He should have gone back to the mountains during the break. Should have gone back and seen if his parents were happy enough to let him stay there and not have to return to Halcyon again, but he knew that wasn’t going to be the case. Aramil knew his father wasn’t going to be happy with just a couple of weeks of this particular training episode. So, the young elf remained behind on the islands and decided to get more familiar with his surroundings.
For nearly the entire break, he was out in the woods. His room was barely used. If he was in it at all, it was only to get a change of clothing, or to wash something off he couldn’t get off on his own out in the woods. The weather on the islands was mild enough, that he really never thought about being outside all night long. It really was different than the mountains he was used to, where one could literally freeze to death at night, even an elf prepared for the winters. He even returned to ‘harassing’ the wildlife, particuarlly the deer. While he didn’t harm any of them, he knew they didn’t appreciate having their backsides hit with a harmless blunt arrow. But, he needed to keep up his archery skills, and that was the best way he knew.
He had only been on his favorite ledge over the lake for a few minutes that afternoon when he heard a noise. Ari tilted his head slightly, as he turned his ear toward the sound the sound of someone walking by. The elf gave a faint smirk as he shook his head. Light steps, he thought to himself, definitely a woman. Must be her. Pity the ‘her’ wasn’t the actual person approaching. He would learn that soon enough.
The elf glanced around for a moment, before he pulled himself from the ledge. Still thinking that the approaching person was someone else, he just smiled to himself as he quickly moved back to the treeline and disappeared up one of the trees next to the lakeshore. He always did enjoy sneaking up on people. It was going to get him hurt some day.