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Sigrid

Braylar couldn't believe her ears. Sure, hearing that someone wanted to eat you was probably disheartening, but she was the real victim!

"You're sad?" she scoffed, pawing at the river bed and kicking up a dust cloud that drifted lazily with the current. "How do you think I feel? I haven't had a decent meal in days because everyone here is either inedible or can somehow see through my glamour."

For a brief moment, a dark thought flitted across her mind. Maybe it would have just been better to let that angry mob kill her. If the alternative was being relocated to an island where food was scarce, what was the point?

Slow death by starvation, or stabbed by an angry mob.

At least with the latter she could have gone down fighting. Now she was just going to wither away. Maybe she was being a bit dramatic, but her first impression of this island was not very hopeful for her future. Somehow she'd have to evolve her methods.

Braylar looked up at the sky, distorted by the water rushing by overhead. Her mane floated into her view and she shook it out of the way before looking back to the Kraken. "Don't be upset about the deception. If you know anything about my kind, you know it's how we hunt. If I'd have known what you were, this would have been very different. As it was, I was certain you were human."

It was probably the closest thing to an apology he'd get.

NOTES: don't think too poorly of her haha she's new

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Sigrid

She snorted. "They are a vexing species indeed."

Some of her saltiness cleared at his mention of a restaurant. One that sold her particular delicatessen of choice. Her red eyes widened a fraction of an inch and she lowered her head like a wolf that picked up a scent. Was there really such a place?

Had they not been submerged, he might have seen her begin slavering at the very idea.

Braylar opened her mouth to speak, but promptly shut it again. She wanted to ask if such a place really existed on an island where humans were still present (would it be considered a faux pas?) but it was a stupid question. There were plenty of man-eating creatures inhabiting the island as well, so perhaps it wasn't so farfetched.

Where they obtained the meat didn't matter to her, either. If they had it, that was all she needed to know. Run out and murder someone, have it shipped in from overseas, it was of little consequence.

"Who or what, pray tell, runs this establishment?" she asked, her tone guarded. She had no job and no money, so it would all be for not if she couldn't fool them with her glamour and snag a free meal. "And can you take me to it?"

NOTES: sorry, I wasn't home all day yesterday!

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Sigrid

Braylar pawed at the soft river bed, kicking up more clouds of dirt. Some sort of shark person. She could maybe pull off some glamour tricks, but she wouldn't know for sure until she saw the owner. At the very least, she'd have a general idea of what she was getting into and could stack the odds in her favor.

His offer pulled her from her own thoughts and she glanced at him, then stared at the fish he'd produced from who knew where. She cocked her head to the side and considered it for a moment before giving her answer.

She was hungry, but was she hungry enough for a straight up hand out?

No, no she would never be that hungry.

"I will pass this time," she muttered, tossing her head and averting her gaze out of contempt. Braylar was far too proud for that. She would work for what she wanted no matter what.

Though Braylar was trying to come up with a way out of the conversation, he seemed keen on continuing it. She supposed since he had information she wanted, she could stick around and humor him for a while. Get direction to the meat shop, then at least count herself lucky for having a kraken ally—of sorts.

Seeing no reason to fib, she said, "I was relocated when I was driven from my home by an angry mob. The villages that were my hunting grounds banned together to try and kill me, so it was either move to this island or be murdered for being what I am."

NOTES: she can be so abraisive and stubborn haha