To Practice Archery and Meetings

During the period of a day, Ain had packed his bag in the guest room of Celeste's house and put on his red cloak that he had not worn in a week. Just recently he listened in on the conversation between a police officer, Celeste and her son - Shale, from what he learned he steeled himself and knew that he had to do. With the police around that were looking for him according to Zoraida, The Black Wings looking for him definitely, and the current goings of the house like Shale's behavior; it was a done deal that he was just in the way and was best for everyone involved if he just went back to his real home - the Forbidden Forest.

Hopping into the kitchen when Celeste wasn't around, he held his helmet under his arm and wrapped up the remaining cake to go and placed it in his bag. Ain appreciated that he was allowed to stay but he couldn't just stick around. He knew for a while that he should leave, the only reason he stayed was because he personally didn't want to - and Celeste would probably not tell him directly to leave so he was left with sneaking out.

With that he had all of his things, put on his helmet and threw his bag over his shoulder and ran out the door. By now he was fully healed, and ran faster than he had ever run in his life. It was quite curious but he didn't really care at the moment.Taking detours through backyards to avoid attention on the streets he was at least partially sure that no one had seen him leave Celeste's house and didn't think anyone noticed him running through the cities alleyways on the way out of Manta Carlos City.

In a short amount of time he made it to the edge of the city, past the cementary and dashed further into The Woods like a blur of red. The whole time his expression under his helmet was a frown, he had really wished that he could live a happy life like everyone else, but that wasn't his fate. Making his way through the trees, he slid around them with effortless ease, bending his elastic body and kicking off branches at great speed until finally he found his way back to The Forbidden Forest where his small house was - away from most people.

The Forbidden Forest was a dangerous place with vicious monsters around but he was quite used to it by now after fifty years, and easily bypassed the most dangerous parts to a clearing where his small one floor house was. 'I'm home, I guess.' he thought to himself as he arrived and stepped up the porch and tossed his bag by his rocking chair that was out front, he took a second to breath, and for a while he zoned out knowing that he would probably spend many more years away from people.

He sighed sadly.

Ain who had finally got comfortable being back, took out his bow and looked to the treeline where he had set targets for archery practice. He had not practiced in a long while, and walked into the center of the clearing and began firing off arrows into the targets. Each shot no matter how far away they were were bull-eyes, and he chuckled to himself on whether he actually needed to practice when he heard a noise and slipped and missed a single arrow that flew into a nearby tree.

'Who is there?' he questioned to himself.

@Pallas

As a loud crash rang across the forest when the branches hit, many animals scattered to the four corners of the land as well as attracting attention from some of the more dangerous monsters.

Ain who was practicing his archery, raised an eyerbrow under his red dragonscale helmet and wondered if a new monster had arrived to cause havic or if combat had started between unknown people. Either way, he had to go investigate what was going on, as he dashed into the trees he snatched all the arrows from the targets and the tree as he went and listened carefully for more noise.

Swiftly he drew a single arrow and nocked it to his bow as he moved, there was no telling what would happen next.

Popping out of bushes he saw her quite clearly, a giant sphinx, holding a huge bow standing there. His eyes popped wide open under his helmet, as he stood there in awe of her large fifteen foot high form, never once did he witness someone like this in all the years he had been on the island. Lowering his bow to his side, he unnocked the arrow he had readied in case it was dangerous - yet kept the bow in hand just in case.

'Is she dangerous?' he thought to himself.

Stepping closer slowly, he remained cautious.

@Pallas

It took a second after hearing the words of the noble sounding sphinx, and realized that strangely she was not a threat. Looking upon her he noted her large feline body, and the large wings on her back but what what interested him most was her strong looking feminine body that towered over him. Other than that he paid close attention to the bow she had, not the most well designed bow but he could appreciate a fellow archer - well if she wasn't so big that is.

Ain's eyes looked to the tree line and saw many trees knocked over, and a single tree in the center that was untouched. 'Was she trying to hit that tree? With those spear sized arrows she is bound to cause more damage than properly practice,' he thought before looking back at the sphinx.

He couldn't talk so he gestured to his throat to try to say that he couldn't speak to her, that is if she understood what he meant. 'What was she saying about Sekhmet's favored children? Is that a god of this world?' he wondered as he stepped closer but stopped about eleven feet from the sphinx girl to avoid getting her caught in his fear aura.

On a whim he raised his bow towards the tree she was obviously trying to hit, nocked and arrow slowly, pulled the string back tightly and fired sending the arrow swiftly into the center of the tree. After that he pulled open his red cloak and put away his bow - strapping it in to his side before looking up at her.

@Pallas

Ain blinked at the normal conversation she was displaying, usually things went differently in The Forbidden Forest, getting attacked right away or having an aggressive relationship was not too uncommon. His lips curled into a smile as she complimented him, it was his defining talent from a young age and he doubted anyone could best him in an archery competition, maybe she was a good person.

Deciding to trust anyone that understood that level of skill, he reached up with both hands to his helmet, undid the straps and pulled it off of his head. As the helmet came off, his messy blond hair almost bounced up in response back to what it always was without his headwear and his now visible youthful appearance with elven ears revealing what he was if she was aware. His violet eyes peered up at her calmly, getting a better view of her golden eyes and what he had originally thought to be eye makeup was actually a tattoo. She was big, but also pretty noble and attractive in her own way if you could overlook her lower parts.

He took a breath as he placed his helmet under his armpit and held it tight.

For a second he thought, 'would getting closer provoke a fight,' he almost wanted to test it and retreat if it went bad. For the time being he did nothing.

@Pallas

As he looked up at Ankh he listened to what she had to say, when she spoke of him being an elf he nodded and shrugged about the talk of Fae for which he was quite sure what she meant. He then stoos still and listened to her introduction, mentioning a bunch of stuff like her name being Ankh, talks of a goddess and a place called Egypt. Except her name, he didn't really follow, but he nodded just the same.

Ain then stared curiously at being called Archer, and he supposed that being called by a class type was acceptable if he could not tell her his name; It beat being refered to as Red on his ID card. Nodding acceptingly he covered his mouth with his hand a muffled a laugh, it was silly but he could consider using it.

He then decided that he was going to take the risk, snd stepped forward as his aura flowed over Ankh's sphinx body, the aura of fear taking effect in the way that he could not predict. He kept a half step of caution so he could dodge away if necessary.

@Pallas