Mirazhe glanced over at him curiously then shrugged. "I was born in a small village at the center of the Plains of Calling. That is where all of my people lived, there was never any reason to leave until the battle five years ago which brought the plains a new name; L' Takrin d' Streea, which means the Desert of Death in drow...The women, cubs, and elders were slaughtered and our warriors killed. The only reason I am still here is I was knocked out and a dead person fell on my, covering my shallow breathing."

demus gave her a reasuring smile, to convey the feeling that he was sad for her, but glad she had escaped death,"when i escaped, i planned to hide under the roots of a dead tree, there was a hole under it that the people that held us had not yet seen, but as i snuck to it to hide until night fall, my brother was telling the humans of the location of the hole, they caught me as i was wriggling into the hole..., my brother smilling at me as they pulled me from it, that was the first time i killed, it was not hard, i hated the humans....after i killed the two humans, my brother ran to tell of my actions....i was forced to run untill i could no longer run, and i found myself near a shore, i then collapsed, and long story short, i was taken in by pirates, and i ended up here, in this area, and that is basically it"he had left out details , but none that were important, he then asked her to lead the way to the temple, as he did not know where it was from their location....

Mirazhe frowned, "Your own brother turned you in?" She shook her head, then paused in her camp to drop of her pack and slip a simple white, sleeveless dress over her head and then strap on both her throwing daggers and then her m.w. dagger was placed around her waist on the small leather belt she wore. "The temple isnt too far from here," She remarked as they seat of again, a white linen bandage wrapped around the scratch on her arm as she carried the sleeping otter.

demus sits on a log , the end of his cloak drifting lazily in the waters mild current...he has no pole so he was more watching than fishing, he had wanted to spear-fish some, but he lacked a spear, and his sword would have obviosly tainted the water, so he sat waiting, hoping that a fish might swim by he could catch with his hands, which he had in the water about 5 inches apart, waiting for a fish to swim through them, so he might eat for free this night...

Mirazhe moved through the forest, a wish for a fish in her mind as last night's hunting had not gone as planned. She had shifted to her true form earlier, made obvious by the fact that instand of her normally tan skin, she had a soft pelt of golden brown. Her ears were longer and pointed, and her nose seemed a bit longer and flatter as well; to resemble a feline nose.

She stopped on the shore, turning her pale gold gaze to Demus where he sat waiting for fish.

"Having a bit of trouble, are we?" She finally called to him, her teeth becoming visible though they were no longer teeth but small, sharp fangs.

demus sapped his hands together just as she called to him, removing a large halibut from the water, and placing it on the lag he sat perched on, striking it with his sword letting the head fall into the water, where many small fish surrounded it and pulled it to the bottom..."not that much" he said as he looked at her and smiled slightly, noticing that she looked far from normal...he wondered if it were the person he had thought by the voice.....he was not sure...

Mirazhe caught the small questioning look in his eyes and nodded. "Yup, its me, Mirazhe." She shifted then sat the riverbanks, watching curiously. "There is an easier way though it requires you to get wet."

demus replied, "well i have never fished before, i think i am doing well,", he smiled largly at her as he picked a second fish from the water,"but if there is a beter way, then i must learn",he paused and looked to the sky,"this is not at all efficiant as i have been here for long enough for the sun to move from one side of the sky to the other....." he trailed of as he watched another fish swiming about his hands...

Mirazhe chuckled, "Yes your are doing well for someone who has never fished before, but if the sun has moved that much then you aren't doing too well..." She trailed off then shrugged. "Oh well, I suppose I can show you if you dont mind seeing bare fur." It didnt bother her that much if another caught sight of her naked when she was in her true form. It wasnt like she was showing any skin, and that was how the katori warriors trained. In other words, she was used to it.

demus, unsure of how to take the last statement, figured he would like to learn the way she spoke of, and replied, jokingly begining to remove his clothing,"shall i dis robe as well?" he smilled and stopped acting as if he were removing his apparal, and stood waiting for her to begin the lesson...demus then secretly pushed the pile of fish that was resting on the other side of the log into it through a hole in the logs side, hoping that she had not seen them.....he had wanted some company, he was fishing out of boredom at that point as he had allready ewatin 3 fish that day, the remnants of a fire behind him...

Mirazhe laughed "Whatever floats you log," she repling in a joking manner. She rose to her feet then discarded her boots. She paused to stretch for a moment before taking off both her breeches and her shirt; folding and then placing them beside her boots. Mirazhe put her already braided hair into a bun then stepped out into the water, the sun shining on her golden brown fur. "I dont know if this way will work quite as well for you as it does for me, but you might as well learn it."

She waded out into the river till it was up to her waist then began to swim out farther till she was in the middle of the river. "Take a deep breathe and dive under water- the fish wont be scared as much if your underwater." She paused to take a breathe then dived under the water, where she stayed for about five and a half minutes till she came up with a fish clenched between her fangs.

demus smiled, looked at her gave her a smirk then showed his own teeth, which were simple, like that of a humans, "no, i dont think that will work that well for me," he then flung one of his hands into the water then fell in, and stood holding a fish in his mouth,"i didnt really catch it with my mouth, i just placed it there... "he smiled as he let the fish fall into the water, and spat the taste out, looked at his sword , the sheath now dripping water as he stood from the water, he looked worried at the water, and then at mirazhe, he quickly flew to her pulling her from the water, and set her on the area near her equipment, and spoke"how do you feel? did you swallow any of the water?" he had a panicked look on his face as fish began to float to the top of the water, and bob about on its surface....

Mirazhe dropped the fish from her mouth, spitting out the taste aswell as she watched more fish float to the surface. "No, the fish was in my mouth the whole time you were in the water. And I feel just fine, thanks to you.... Your sword poisoned the water, didnt it?" She looked up at him, her eyes a shimmering gold though worry was visible in their depths.

"well not that it is a time to joke, but i have bathed recently, so it wasnt me that killed the fish, so yes i beleive it is my sword......should we warn the locals, it is likely they will not see the effects of the poison , it will be soon mixxed so much into the water that i doubt any one will get sick unless they eat a contaminated fish.....your call, do we stay and try to get any fish that might have to survive, or do we pack up, and leave...?"

Mirazhe turned her gaze out onto the waters, probing with her mind. She looked back up at him. "The fish that live, which there are a few, will be fine in a few days but there is an otter just a little ways downstream that is already feeling the effects of the poison... I think I can save it." She stood, stuffing her boots and her clothes into the pack that was leaning against one of the trees, and then placing the pack on her back. "We get the otter, then we can go and warn the villagers."

demus replied...as he drew his dagger"very well i had hoped we did not have to, but its the right thing to do.......i cant beleive i just said that.....dont tell any one,or ill...ill...ill fly really high and drop you!" demus smiled as he used the dagger to remove a peice of his wing that was in the center, between to edge of the wing, and the suporting bones, as if would heal better this way, hinder his flight less, and leave no scar....."we will need to aquire something to grind this in, it is the quickest cure for the poison," the bit of wing now absorbing light as it tried to heal itself, but could not as it was seperated from demus,"it is a natural cure for the poison, as well as an amaizing tool for healing wounds, it leaves horrible scars however.....the animal will have to eat some of it once we dilute it with fresh water..." demus folding the piece of wing up and placed it into a small leather bag, and began to smash it with his hands, he then walked upstream a bit, ad cought some water in the bag as well, and also washed the black blood from his hands...

Mirazhe nodded, listening closely though she smiled for a small moment. "Fly me high and I wont let go, so I wont tell... Will your wing heal on its own?" As he moved upstream for the clean water, Mirazhe hurried downstream on the banks, probing the water as she went. When she finally found the otter, which was small and young, she picked it up, craddling it in her arms as she hurried back up stream and to Demus.

"we must hurry to a town and find an alchemist, i do not have the proper tools to make the liquid that we will feed him, we do not have much time, shall we fly, i do not know how far the twon is from here..."

Mirazhe craddled the otter closer, humming to him for a few moments before looking up at Demus. "Very well... You can carry all of us?"

"i sure can, im gonna need you to direct me untill i can see it with my eyes, fair enough, we must hurry, it will die soon.." demus grabed the cat-like creature, and lept into the air, dropping as he got about 40 feet up, but then regaining himself, and flew.

Mirazhe clutched the otter with one arm, the other circled around Demus's neck. Her gaze scanned the horizon till she spotted the village. "North by north east," she said.

demus having already noticed a vilage just waited for some kind of acknowledgement that that was the village, as soon as she opened her mouth to speak, he darted towards the town, the two of them making a sound like a falcon, not as loud however, as they cut through the air with amaizing speed, he had been used to the others he knew that had wings and it had crossed his mind to let her go as soon as he was over the village, but he knew she didnt have wings, and that it would not be pretty.......he had seen what happened to those in that situation, he had used humans as weapons in this maner, flying at the target at great speed, then releasing the person, or corpse, it did not matter if they were alive, yes....he had known battle....war even..he landed in one of the tree tops as he neared the village using the hand not holding mirazha to gain his ballence , and then to pull open one of the eyes of the near death animal, he did not care if it survived, but he did pain at the extenguishment of such a young life, he noted that it must have not been poisoned baddly as its pupils were still intact.....the blades poison when in high enough potentcy would cause the eyes to grow in tempersture by great amounts, sometimes eve bursting, but usually just cuasing the pupil to lose ability to close, and causeing the black of the pupil to spread across the entire cornea, creating a strange looking eye, and complete color blindness((think eye doctors appointment, the eye drops that make peoples eyes look funny)) he scaned the village for a sign that ment chemist, or alchemist, or even a chef, he just needed a grinding basin and a grinder to make the wing break down more....."have you visited here? tell me where the shops are if you have! we must hurry!"

Mirazhe had been cooing to it in an atempt to soothe the fear that radiated from the small creature like heat from a fire. She looked up at Demus spoke then scanned the village. "No I have yet to be here though I can find a place...." She trailed off, jumping down from the tree branch to land on her feet with catlike grace, already taking in the scents of the village. "There is a potion's shop on the other side of the village but there is an inn not to far from here... Which one?"

"if we are to save the animal, the ption shop, and we must hurry or it will surely perish, meet me there with him, i will have the medicine ready for it" demus then lept into the air from the ground where he had followed mirazha, and flew untill he saw a sign that ment alchemist, he knew it well, it was the grinding basin with a grinder in it, resembeling a bowl, with a rock in it, he walked in , and began to speak with the keeper.....who he could tell was in no mood to cooperate with him, as he asked to use the grinder, the man began a game of 21 questions, that demus was not ready for, demus drew his sword and told thwe man to comply, or he would kill him, and hide his body in the forest, with that the man became demus' helper, getting him the various things he needed to make the potion for the otter, and that he and mirazha would also take, as it was unsafe for the poison to come in contact with skin also , but only if diluted in water, not too dangerous, but he was not one to take chances....

Mirazhe nodded but instead of moving through the village she, she made her way to the forest beside it. Hold the small otter carefully, she began to run, not the normal human like run but an extremely fast one much like the lions ran on the savanah. She finally slowed to a walk when the potion's shop came into view.

She smiled at a few of the people staring at her in surprise, most were merchants merely passing through. Her smile though, held nothing kind in it, and was more a baring of fangs then a gesture of kindness. She walked into the shop, looking to Demus.

demus had just finished making the potent potion from the things he needed here, and told the keeper he could either leave or stay, he was free to do as he wished, as long as he didnt make a scene in the area near the small ill animal, demus placed the mush back into the leather bag, and squished it around a bit before tightly lacing up the opening in the bag, and poping open a ruber opening on the other side,((the whole baggy thing looks like what you decorate a cake with, but leather)) he then pushed a bit out through the opening, and tasted it, as it touched his toungue, he squinted his eyes and cringed at the horrid taste, spitting it out, he then swallowed a small gulp of it, and smilled spitting some onto the floor,"i dont know how your going to get it to eat it, its horrid, it seems too ill to fight back , maybe we should just force it to eat it....., as well as your self, just to be on the safe side" he then handed the bag to the female and asked if he could help in giving it to the animal...

Mirazhe made a face then shrugged and lowered herself to the floor, the otter now on her lap. "I'll manage, how much does the little one need?" She asked though she had her attention focused on the otter. She began to hum softly as she placed the rubber opening inside the otters open mouth. She squeesed the tube till a little of the mush came out. The otter didnt seem to mide at first, merely swallowing but as Mirazhe added more, it began to squirm and wriggle about on her lap. She force feed a little more till one of the claws slashed her arm, causing pale red blood to matt her fur and drip to the ground.

"Does he need more?"

demus grabbed the bag from her, and then felt of it and sighed as she had not givin it much, "a human needs only a teaspoon of this, imagin how little he should need," he then helped mirazha to her feet, making note to not touch or injure the small animal then walked to the owner of the shop , now out side, telling the others of how demus had thrown him about the shop and beaten him into submission, and how demus had killed a cat with his bare hands upon entering the shop, none of which he had done, short of threatning the man... he walked in front of the man and pushed the bag against his chest, nearly knocking the man over as he did, and told him that if any were to become ill, this would likely help....he then alerted the man that he had urinated on himself, and walked back towards the female, and the animal, remembering that she needed the medicen still, he walked back to the man, who dropped the bag and ran for cover in the woods as if he had seen a ghost....demus picked the bag up and took it to mirazha, offering it to her smilling as he had just finished laughing at the useless humans fear..

A faint smile spread across Mirazhe's face though it disappeared as she took the pouch from Demus. She made a face then tipped back her head and pushed some of the mush into her mouth. She winced at the flavor but quickly swallowed it. "Horrible," she remarked as she got to her feet with the otter in her arms once more.

She walked out of the shop, and over to the small cluster of people then gave the pouch to one of the men. "Here, as my friend stated, if any become sick in the next few days give them a teaspoon of this... I know it tastes bad, but it will help.... And if possible, try not to eat any fish from the river for that is where the problem lays." Both her tone and her manner were warm and the small smile she bestowed upon them was kind.

demus watched as the people thanked her, and shook her hand violently, as they walked away, he wished he could be that way with people....but he could not.....he walked behind mirazha, and asked," what shall we do with the animal? it may be days before we shall know if it will live or not, should we release it, so its mother can care for it? or shall we take it to the goddess of water? she would surely know what to do.."

Mirazhe waved to the villagers with her freehand the turned to face Demus. "Well.... I think we should take him to the goddess of water, but if you dont mind, could we stop by my camp? Its not to far."

"that will be fine, its not my decision however, this is our journey, so long as we acompany each other, it is up to you as well, we shall go to your camp, shall we walk this time, or fly again?" demus looked at the animal, now sleeping in mirazhas gentle arms...

Mirazhe looked down at otter and smiled then looked back up at Demus. "We can walk, I would hate to put too much of s strain on your wings," she replied with a faint smile to him. "Come it is this way," she began to walk east then paused to look back at him.

demus wipped away a bit of black blood fromhis wing, and thought to himself, it is healing well, he then began to walk towards mirazha, and smilled at her in doing so...

Mirazhe walked off the mainroad from the village, moving onto an old dirt trail; worn down by time and the few feet that walked upon it. "So Demus, where are you from?"

"i am from a land that only my people lived in from the begining of time untill the humans found it....they enslaved my people.......they attacked our village, there were 400 of us.....and 200 thousand of them....i was not yet born, but my grand parents were....they only killed a small number of my people...they then forced them to breed, untill there were thousands of my kind...all slaves......slowly my people died out, and we became a novelty among the rich.....a pet...but i escaped, and am here now, what about yourself?"

"i assume you will be fine, but i want to make sure the otter is not disturbed, i will scout ahead, i will return in a moment" demus lept into the air and flew ahead....

Mirazhe nodded, watching as he flew off then looked down at the creature and began to hum softly as she moved onto another pathway.

demus seeing a small troop of trolls , dragging a few dead bodies with them, which looked to be an elf, a dwarf, and another troll, assumed that they were hunting for food, as well as loot, he noted to himself where they were headed, and that it was where mirazha was walking, he turned to go warn her, but saw that she had altered her path, he sighed, but knew that it was too close for comfort, so he drpped from the sky, landing in a tree and watched the trolls, to see if they were speaking, or whatever information he could gain, but there was none that he had not gained from looking at them from the sky, there were four rather large trolls,each around the size of a small giant, about 7 to 8 feet tall, and one was rather fat, the others slim, and well built, he thought that they must have giant in their blood, as they resembled humans in the shape, and placement of their massive muscles, he saw that one was not dragging any thing which ment they were still looking for prey.... he dropped from the tree, to the ground, and silently ran to mirazha, and told her of the situation as he aporached her..