Another trip outside Spider Island. Haka was getting used to the discovery of new place located within Kirigakure, and actually liked the diversity that came with it as it allowed her to think about new ways of hunting down prey while dealing with new, unfamiliar surroundings. this time she found herself in a swamp, a distinct difference from the dead trees and misty environment that formed Spider Island. This place was colourful. Green, alive and filled with plants and animals she had never seen before. The water here was blue and bright as the sun shone on it, unlike the inky dark blue that barely showed the slightest ripple back home. The only discomfort she had suffered was the fact that her human form didn't cope well with the area. Time and time again she sunk into the water up to her middle to such a point she grew greatly annoyed by it and decided to take on her natural form instead.

Now skittering through the land as a giant misty-grey wolf spider the size of a car and feeling like a queen in the swamps, the eight-legged terror that had never been seen before by the local fauna was enough to have most animals flee for safety. If the sight of such a monster did not suffice, those animals brave enough to get closer sooner got in touch with the equally monstrous aura she expressed, its predatory killing intent apparent even to the lowest insect. Yes, unlike Spider Island that was filled with spiders such as her, this place had yet to deal with the influence of the Spider clan, making it a great place for the young spider-nin to establish her own cosy place in time. Infesting the area with new spiders seemed like a good start if she wanted to take over the world and get rid of the humans that lived on it.

Isolating Kirigakure from the world, as if a large cocoon had been woven around it, would allow the clan to change the Village from within, while the surrounding Lands would then be ripe for the picking. Swarms of countless spiders flooding the other worlds, trained Unmei infiltrating and taking out those who would oppose the growth and evolution of the Spider clan to something beyond the superiority it was now holding. Yes, the ideas pleased the little spider even though there was still a lot of work to be done before achieving this.

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Dandi was strolling through the wilds. She was going to meet her scary aunt in a few days. It left her restless to the very bone. She wandered, took naps on sweet grassy fields. Not without laying out a highly expensive towel and a neat matching pillow of course.... She'd light small candles in honor to her ancestors tradition and prey for good luck with training. While running some laps over the hills she got insanely motivated. To the point where she had a sudden rush of high pressured adrenaline. Her strong legs felt completely in element and she'd run like a mad person. Enjoying the speed training she yet would immediately halt once the adrenaline rush was over. She tilted her head to the side. Left and right. She stared down at her feet. Something was wrong. Where the heck is she?

A bright strike of utter confusion would mark her face. Nasty trees. Dying barks, dirt and swampy mud below her feet. Some occasional mist crawled over the surface. This wasn't good. Not good at all. Dandi hated anything unclean. Realizing her shoes and lower fabrics were already soaked in some mud gave her a minor mental breakdown right there and now. While she was cussing and screaming she could hear various animals fleeing from her noise. The closer she looked the more certain she was that most of them were nasty little insects. She gave up. This place sucks.

It seemed only befitting that she was now highly motivated to get the heck out of this place. But the mud beneath her feet seemed alive. She couldn't even re-trace her own footsteps. But she could see a shadow in the mist. Something big. Could be a little hill in the swamp. Maybe a lookout. Time to find out. In utter disgust, she'd move her mud stained feed further until it became clear that this was no hill. It was closer. Smaller but still large enough to craft a nasty big shadow. By the time she reached the dark spot in the mist she'd feel it's terrible aura. This ain't no object. A living thing? This size? The moment Dandi would actually get a peek on it, was probably the moment Haka noticed her. It seemed to turn around. A huge spider face was glaring down at Verdandi. That's one of those moments in the movies where the scene zooms out and all you can hear is an intensely loud scream.



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Despite terrifying the instinct-driven beasts, one of them didn't seem to register that notion quite well. Water splashing as it continued its advance onto her, Haka turned her body and peered at an approaching human with eight beady eyes until the two locked eyes and a scream of terror cleaved the air. Remaining motionless, the scream sounded like music to her ears as it only confirmed how terrified humans generally were of spiders. Oh, how weak these fleshing beings were in mind and body. Fortunately for the girl in front of her, Haka was too much of a spider to simply lash out. No, she was not hungry and certainly didn't feel threatened, so there was no reason to take down this human plaything with the venom of a wolf spider.

Waiting patiently until the girl had finished screaming, Haka simply observed her with unblinking eyes. She wore rather interesting looking clothes, mostly of the sort that Haka had not seen before. The sort of clothes most people didn't wore because they were not easy to move in when doing their duty, meaning she was either not used to do much or didn't expect having to do much. Of riches and reputation, the apathetic spider-nin had no notion. But there was something else still that set her apart from the humans she had met and seen so far. This girl gave off a cool chill, as if she carried winter with her, a season that drove most, if not all spiders, into a state of hibernation. Though the cold was not enough to lull her into sleep, Haka nonetheless disliked the possibility.

As the girl would finish her scream, Haka was quite curious what was to come next. Would she run in terror? Would she remain, feeling awkward at the fact she screamed at a spider who remained unfazed at the whole ordeal? Haka couldn't say, but if the girl would start to run, she would be rather inclined to just chase her for fun. Even if she was not hungry, the very idea of terrifying a human like this seemed like a joyful change of pace from all the humans in the manor who simply considered her awkward. Granted, they had yet to see her natural form, but that mattered little when there was an aura trying to eat you.

"Run?", she suggested with a soft, monotone voice, using the ugly speech of humans to make her wishes clear while wondering if subtly hinting at human's feared nature would suffice to get her some fun.

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Having exhaled most of her chilly breath onto the terrifying creature (despite her breath smelling minty and wonderfully fresh of course) Verdandi was still out of words and kind of stuck in her current position as if she froze herself into an ice statue as she accidentally turned so many of her friends into up until now. She was oggling the creature and going through various stages of mental questioning. From one point her rather reasonable voice would tell her that it is highly common to find nasty large creatures in the swamps and she shouldn't be so damned surprised. Her empathy was creeping into the spiders head and eventually feeling the amusement it seemed to exhale. This was yet overshadowed by the aura it expelled. An emotionally sensitive person as Dandi would take some time to come to terms with those feelings. As a naturally talented runner, she of course would love to take the creatures advice to heart and run away the same way she ended up here.

Her legs eventually were faster then her brain. She was still processing the fact that this creature just spoke, while a lot of voices in her head were sure that only summoning animals had the ability to do that. She yet would realize that the spider seemed to follow her. Despite emitting a strange emotion of joy from chasing Verdandi, she didn't seem to do more than glue herself to the ice princess feet and follow foot. Jumping from tree, hiding in misty little corners of the swamp. Passing over muddier and thicker swamp spots... Hiding in bushes and simply straight away running forward. Nothing seemed to get rid of the huge creature.

This was creepy. Not fun at all. But then again... if it was a summoning creature.... what if she could be bested and eventually put to serve? Short lived dreams of riding Haka into battle, would soon be interrupted by the fact that this creature was actually FASTER THEN HER. This wasn't good. It had to be tamed. Something had to be done. If it can't be outrun it has to be beaten. At the next chance Verdandi cut her jump short and grabbed onto some sort of wooden stick that she found. Eventually turning and going straight into an offensive Kenjutsu pose. Lifting her arms above her head as she aimed straight for the spiders face, attempting to hit it where it hurts most. On the spider-nose.



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It had to be said, running behind a terrified person was quite the fun game even if she wasn't hunting for food at this point. And she could use the exercise, running on and off the difficult terrain, eight spider legs with such fluidity it hit Haka it had been far too long since she had actually made use of her natural form. With eight legs, the swamp barely posed a problem, and having them naturally be chakra-enhanced, no matter the surface she ran on, earth or water, would be a breeze. Once more, Unmei evolution proved so much better than that of humans.

That was, until the girl suddenly grabbed a wooden stick and took on a stance that was not quite something most humans had. Registering the counter-assault too late, the stick hit her hard on the face, making her halt instantly and even take a few steps back. Eight beady eyes looked at her holding that stick like it was a weapon, and eventually registering the stance as some sort of trained position that would improve the stick-beating abilities she seemed to have. She disliked the new situation, mostly because the girl was now holding a makeshift weapon, and contemplated what she'd have to do about it. She still wasn't very hungry, but being beaten by a stick... now that was going too far.

In a stand-off way, the spider observed the girl before her. This time not to see who she was, but to find a weakness in her defences. As it were, the human had only two eyes and two legs, meaning the spider had an obvious advantage on holding her balance, but that stick had a better reach. While she knew speed was on her own side, that didn't mean she'd be faster at taking a bite out of the human before that stick would hit her again. A most annoying situation she'd have to deal with. Opting to endure a beating in favour of knocking the girl off balance, Haka suddenly dashed forward with the intent to bullrush the girl into the ground. If that would succeed, she'd simply pin down her arms and legs with her superior leg count, looking down upon the helpless kid with her eyes.

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She could hear an inner voice screaming "Shannaro!!" the moment the stick hit the spiders face. Not sure where that came from but it was accompanied by a rush of positive adrenaline and serotonin surges. The spider looked abashed and much more less amused though. Dandi's celebration of success seemed to be utterly short lived. Despite the direct hit and perfect execution, thanks to her well trained Kenjutsu skills, it didn't seem to have left much harm on the target. But beating a creature of that size naturally would take more then a hit. Before Dandi could try to hit it again. The spiders legs indicated movement.

Verdandi's reaction time seemed to be on par with her opponent. But her speed was obviously lacking. She got hit right in the stomach by that oddly aimed headbutt forward. Leaving her to gulp and gasp for air for a moment. But as the spiders limbs were about to rain down on her she quickly rolled herself into a bundle of sushi, grabbing onto the siders body and using the slippery, muddy terrain to her adventage, sliding herself away below her opponent. The moment she could slip back onto her feet she was, first and for all, utterly disgusted by the intense amount of dirt that her clothes had to be contaminated with. She gave off a visual gasp of utter displeasure. Taking a few breaths in as her anger started to willow up in her stomach. Also fueled by the pain her aching belly would emit, she knew the spider wouldn't wait on Verdandi feeling all comfy and well again.

Another charge forward had to be done. She lifted her arms in the same stance as before. The spider would be fooled into thinking that Dandi would try to hit her the same way as before. Instead, just a few steps before they would clash. She'd bury her foot as deep into the muddy surface as possible and use all her feeable strength to pull it up, tossing a severe amount of dirt and mud straight towards the spiders face. If the temporal blinding would suceed, Dandi would attempt to use her stick to hit one of those many legs as hard as possible.



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Though the charge succeeded, pinning down the kid was harder than expected. Not wishing to lay still, she rolled through and away the spider's legs until she found the moment to stand up and... look at her dirty clothes? Haka wasn't sure what to make of that, since that generally didn't involve normal survival behaviour, but then again, it was hardly the first time humans reacted in a way that simply made no sense at all in the spider's mind. Why did clothes matter so much to humans? Was it because it hid the weakness of their flesh?

Angered by the sight of dirt on her clothes, the girl took on the same stance as the first one, rising her stick in the air as if to hit her again in the same way. This would be the third time now that she'd use that move, making the spider cautious as to why the human simply repeated the same action over and over again. Was it this limited in its abilities? That seemed hard to believe considering she had observed shinobi before and knew the versatility with which they were able to fight. Whereas the first time she was simply caught by surprise, the second time she had successfully won the clash despite not being able to pin down the girl. Assuming the third time would just follow a similar direction, the spider considered it pointless to knock down the girl without a decent follow-up and decided to change her approach just as much.

Charging the girl once again, Haka would rush in as if she was about to repeat her own strategy once more, but as she approached, rather than to keep running, she launched herself towards Verdandi by using her eight legs to jump off the floor and shifted from her spider form into her human form while she was mid-air. As the misty grey spider altered her body, the former broad body became that of a lithe litte girl wearing a schoolgirl outfit, and the spread legs shaped itself into the arms and legs of a human, positioned in such way that the 'spider' was now about to ram down the girl, arms first. At the same time, dirt was being kicked up, splattering her face and clothes but, due to the drastic change in physique, failed to reach its intended effect.

Once again, though differently, the spider-nin simply wanted to knock down the girl in front of her. Hit or miss, she would no longer try to pin down the human, instead jumping up to her feet and drawing her own kunai as she'd take on her own defensive stance. As was typical, her stoic face would betray no emotion as her amber eyes observed once more the girl in front of her.

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As the spider launched into the air. The muddy attack was still at large. The mass of dirt would totally hit her face. It would totally hit her... it's so gonna splat all over her... WHAT THE HELL. While already in position to adjust her original plan hitting the spideys leg, she was already trying to find a new weak spot as the soon-to-be-blinded creature was launching at Verdandi. As that thing suddenly changed itself into a more human form, Dandi was agasped by the turn of events. Having never heard of, or seen any type of shapeshifter in all her lifetime, it took her a while to swallow what was happening.

Unfortunately for her. The spidergirl was less forgiving in terms of time. Her certainly smaller frame would hit Verdandi frontally. Propelling the young ice princess back into the mud she just had risen from. Getting slowly on her feet again, Dandi was for once clear that this wasn't her day. Dirt was sticking all over her and she just staiend a cute girls perfectly fine looking clothes as well. Such an afront to good taste was unforgiveable, especially since the girl didn't even seem to care.

Pointing the mighty stick, now rather mud stained, at the 'new' opponent in front of her. Verdandi shouted out. "What the heck are you? Who are you? Why would you....?" seemingly disturbed by the overall situation and confused. But eventually her opponent's facial expression didn't seem to budge much. Dandi wasn't going to wait for an answer if there was one to come even. She realized this must be some sort of transformation trick. So grabbing onto her own kunai in her left hand, she'd launch forward. Eventually clashing her kunai into that of her defenders, as her right palm was swinging the muddy stick towards the girls stomach. In that process they would come eye to eye with each other. Both having at least one red glowing eye seemed to be the very first thing that Dandi could notice they had in common.

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Haka waited. The dirt on her clothes didn't bother her, but the dirt on her face that covered part of the red stripe on her face where the stick had her previously as spider was annoying. As the girl took her time to recollect from the sudden change in shape, she rubbed off the dirt closest to her eyes, not breaking her defensive stance. For a first, the human actually started to ask question rather than to swing that annoying stick first, and as such Haka felt compelled to answer - as was the human's way.

"Haka is Unmei.", was her brief answer, revealing the 'who' and the 'what' of her identity. Even if few would know what Unmei were, that lack of information was not exactly her concern, but her answer did little to subdue the girl as she already rushed in to clash again. She had taken out her own kunai too, which Haka disliked even more, and attacked the spider-nin with both weapons at a time. Dual wielding weapons? This was getting quite serious in the eyes of Haka, who wasn't sure anymore if the human still took this as a game or intended to aim for lethal damage.

Monstrous aura flaring yet face remaining as expressionless as always, Haka tried to analyse the girl's intend more than she was paying attention to what she was doing, and as such failed to notice the subtle move of the mud stick to her stomach. The stick hit, and pain shot through her body before she jumped back to rub her stomach where it hurt. Not looking down, her amber remained fixated on the girl. The 'wound', as far as a stick could cause this, eventually drove the girl to ask a single question concerning the human's intent.

"No more games...?"

The answer to that question would conclude Haka's own intent, as she was not quite of a mind to spare a human who had the intention to actually kill her rather than play a game of 'tag' with the spider. After all, even if apathetic and a natural predator, the spider was not hungry, nor of a mind killing without cause was a necessity. Hunting happened when needed, but if need be she could change all of that at a whim's notice as survival was the only rule she followed.

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The moment the stick hit was a weird one. Verdandi could feel the surge of serotonin and adernaline pumping through her but the effects were short-lived and soon replaced by regret. This supposedly aweful creature in front of her spoke, not in a creepy way as the first time. It seemed robotic and inhuman for sure. But Verdandi's empathy was confusing her. She could feel sadness or disappointment. Aside from the obvious pain that was rushing through the girl in response to being hit again.

Considering that so far she seemed superior to Dandi in a lot of skills, had some sort of powerful transformation at hand that still left a lot of questions unanswered. The main reason Verdandi was beating her with a stick, was caused by the natural monstrous aura it was giving away. But it took Verdandi up until now to realize that this emitted force of nature had not changed at all. It didn't fit what she could feel with empathy about that character.

As Haka asked if the games were over. It started to eventually shine some new light onto the situation. This creature, of whatever composition it was made of, was playing games here. Remembering that it felt very amused to chase Verdandi, she finally understood that this scary thing wasn't really looking for a fight. Eventually also realising that it was Verdandi who gave away the first strike and actually initiating any kind of violence.

The ice princess took a few steps back. This was a change of terms for her. In order to see what reaction she could get from the spidergirl, Dandi would toss her powerful stick weapon to the ground. Slightly lowering her kunai, keeping it firmly grasped in case she'd need to protect herself from another attack maybe?

Gazing over the frame of her supposed opponent it seemed like the situation finally gave away some time to oggle upon the slightly dirt crazed frame of "Haka" more properly. A young cutie with an outfit that certainly resembled the more modern type of students. Coming from a mountain villige in the land of snow.... Dandi wasn't really used to these clothes, but had to admit that in this time and age she was probably the oddball rather then the girl with that weird battle kimono on.

Putting on a somewhat amused smile on her lips she'd stare at the girl with familiar eye color. "Games? Are we playing a game?" Still agasped but certainly starting to get a feeling for the situation she'd oggle at every facial motion and reaction Haka would give away. Going by the spideys first comment she could determine that her name was Haka yes but what Unmei meant? Was it a word to describe herself? But before any of that would come to light.... gotta make sure this doesn't turn into another headbutt to Verdandi's gut.


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A reply to her answer didn't came immediately as it was now the girl's turn to observe what Haka was about. She could see the eyes run up and down her figure, analysing her human form for the faintest of details as if she wanted to be sure Haka was truly humane in shape. Naturally, she was, as any sign of her inhumane nature would not be visible at first sight, like her aura and her blood colour. Seemingly certain that Haka looked human indeed, she threw away her wooden stick and lowered her kunai. Haka would have preferred it differently as the kunai was more of a danger to her species than the stick, but lowering one's defences could just as much be interpreted as a sign of surrender as anything else.

Coming to her own conclusions, the girl replied to her question with a question of her own, making it sound as if she had not been quite aware of the fact that Haka was not hungry and therefore bore no killing intent. But much like with previous interactions with humans, she reasoned that this girl had simply been intimidated by her presence as well. Like... well, everyone who wasn't Sero or Miyu, probably.

"No hunger, no death."

Her statement was a reply to the question, a tightly formulated explanation that eschewed a couple of steps in her reasoning about why this was, indeed, a game in her eyes. She was not hungry, so there was no need to hunt. Logically, chasing someone you would not hunt down would thus mean a harmless game. It was more a matter if the girl in front of her would understand this as well. To add to the comprehension that it had all been a game, she mimicked Verdandi's action by lowering her kunai as well.

"Why use two weapons?"

She knew about weapons in general considering she had rummaged in Sero's weapon arsenal, but her comprehension on how they were used was limited. To her, using one kunai sufficed as she mostly made use of ninjutsu and summons, but it seemed this human was of a different mind as she had wielded the semblance of two weapons. Certainly, she could see certain benefits to it, but it equally looked mostly a loss in strength and coordination.

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Verdandi was certainly reliefed to see that Haka followed the symbolic geasture of lowering weapons alike. This was still a certainly odd situation. But Dandi was tired of making a whole sense of it all. Instead she was just trying to figure out who's she dealing with at this point. The girls answer was as cryptic as the situation itself. But given the fact that she was, initially, a scary spider with a very obvious killer instinct in her aura, it allowed some minor insight what the girl actually meant. Yet understanding this immediately lead to the conclusion that Dandi could have met her on the off chance that spidergirl was hungry. This kind of thought made a shiver run down the ice princess spine. Would she have tried to eat me? New odd questions were filling her head and any kind of deeper interpretation of it just left her shivering further.

Never the less, in this situation, neither of the two had any actual reason to inflict any further harm on the other. But Dandi was clear in the interpretation that this creature was still very giddy on playing 'games' with her. The creature seemed oddly enough interested in Dandi's Kenjutsu, despite that without any Katana at hand yet, a simple kunai and a stick could hardly be called weapons. In a sudden odd moment of a moreso experimental kind of curiosity, Dandi reached slowly to pick up her stick and then in turn offer it to her 'sparing' partner.

"Try it" she answered. Eventually going back into a defensive position and adorning her facial expression with a moreso playful grin, unsure if the creature would actually follow Verdandi's offer to try dual wielding herself. But heck, the situation was odd enough already. Why not try and make it fun instead?

She'd still be cautious. Any attack towards her would be parried within the capabilites of her reflexes. Considering the spider was still willing to stay within the mroe playful approach of things. If she would got serious again this could, after all, turn out badly for the curious rich kid.


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Her question triggered a slow reaction from the human. She slowly picked up the weapon, expressing no ill intent and handed over the stick to the spider-nin, who merely blinked. She wanted her to try it, and so Haka took the stick. Unlike the weapons in Sero's armoury, the stick didn't feel like a weapon, surprising the spider-nin slightly at the fact the girl had used it as a weapon nonetheless. Strange use of tools aside, Haka switched the stick-sword and her kunai several times from hands until she felt comfortable with holding it. Stick in her left hand, kunai in her right, she somewhat mimicked Verdandi's previous stance. Though she did understand the benefit from wielding two weapons, she didn't register the benefit of said stance even if she understood that, much like her own defensive stance, it was supposed to be efficient one way or another.

"Weapons are awkward", she concluded, relaxing her position and giving the stick back to Verdandi. As an Unmei, she was used to rely on her own natural weapons, and no matter how much she learned about the 'claws of man', she simply couldn't understand its use or why humans didn't evolve to improve their own natural weapons rather than to make use of all kinds of constructed attachments, of which some were truly absurd both in looks and use.

Having handed the stick back, Haka put away her kunai and ran her hand through her long white hair, looking away as she thought what to do next. With the game having come to its end and the lack of need to fight off a potential attacker, her interest waned and her mind was trying to find something new. There was a lot still to explore, but she did not want to share her dark plans with a human in the least. On the other hand, she could perhaps brings this girl home to mingle with all the others whom currently resided at Sero's manor. After all, this seemed to be the running trend lately as just about every human either sought out her Creator, or simply stumbled onto the dark island by their own.

"Sero Osada likes weapons. Haka will show them."

Even if it didn't sound like an offer, to the spider it was an offer. She couldn't say if Sero would actually approve of her bringing in people or even showing the large armoury with all the weapons he had stored, but her apathetic nature didn't really care for the wishes of others, not even that of her father. She simply assumed bringing in humans to Spider Island was just how things went, and that was exactly what she was about to do. Not waiting for a reply, the spider-nin turned around and started to walk the long road direction Osada Manor where she lived. Whether or not Verdandi followed, the spider would not look back.

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OOC: We can continue in a new thread at Spider Island, if you wish/follow. That way, you can use the wc here for your training, and we can start a second social for your rank up requirement :]

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Seeing that any eventual hostile feels were lifted. Dandi would put her kunai back in it's pocket. Watching the young changeling in front of her play around with the dual weaponry until she seemed satisfied but seemingly unimpressed by it's potential. Understanding what malicious nasty weapons the girl could produce simply by changing into a spider, Dandi didn't really bother to question her lack of interest for Bukijutsu.


While spidergirl was playing around a bit. The ice princess took the chance to clean herself up as far as possible eventually even sliding into another combat kimono until she was satisfied. She was still disgusted by the environment so as the shapeshifter offered to change planes, it was highly welcomed. Once Haka returned the stick, she seemed to just walk off. Leaving Dandi a few steps behind and eventually confused on whats exactly gonna happen at this point. Tossing the stick back into a bush, until it might be found by another damsel in distress and in urgent need of a makeshift weapon.

In her new and certainly clean attire. She'd slowly jump after her new... friend? In a way that would make the least amount of mud spill in any way. Not going to get dirty again in this filthy hole.... Dandi had no idea who that Sero guy was. Nor where her guide was leading her to. But since auntie seemed busy there was no actual reason that'd keep the curious brat from following. Even along the way she'd try to get some sense out of Haka or what she's intending to show Dandi. Despite some short lyric answers Verd couldn't really make much sense of it. But she guessed it was now part of this adventure and she should just follow afoot.

Having no particular idea yet what they were about to get into. Verd was sure she could at least put the puzzle together of what her new travel companion was. Despite not really understand the depth of the word "Unmei" at this point, it was yet clear that she was neither a summoning creature nor just a transformation user of the common sort. Which, in the end, was still kinda creepy. It brought some hesitance to Verdandi's motivation to follow her guide. But by the time she arrived at that thought they seemed already quite far off their previous track. Not to mention that with Dandi being new in Kiri yet, she had no clue where the heck she was at all.

Trying to eventually pin point their location by means of reading celestial signs or nearby mountain sights would be drowned in it's hopes by the shady mist that surrounds their home country. At least she could tell that they were still on Kiri grounds for that. Gazing occasionally at the seemingly emotionless person that was leading ahead... and also seemed to be quite comfortable with not speaking a single word other then some more lyrical riddles in simple response to Verdandi's slightly worried efforts to get whats going on. At last she could get the gist of it, that they were heading towards a place considered to be.... Spider Island? Where the Sero guy would hang out?

It seemed far too late to question it now. And the malicious aura that spider person gave away started to feel unusually comfortable. It was odd. Maybe it was Dandi's natural empathy that allowed her to see beyond the mere killing instinct. Haka had proven to be more than just a mindless beast. But following into her lair... well she'd have to be on guard at least. But one thing for sure. Travelling with someone that was faster then miss princess rich pants, proved to certainly increase Dandi's own skills in that part and if that wasn't a good motivation to tag along she didn't knew what else she would be doing to hone her skills as intended.

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