#also i want the creature to be a slinth cause they sound /terrifying/ to be hunted by

[tahnisreu]

ㅤNeteyam's agitated pacing was like a ripple on the surface of still water, breaking her concentration which each step or tail flick. Try as she might to ignore it -( he's over reacting..) - she was, admittedly, beginning to absorb the same sentiment. She wasn't a stranger to some sort of danger hindrance; viperwolves, bugs, or just machinery reduced to rust and bolts making any data within unsalvageable. But sometimes the reward was worth the risk.

ㅤAnd it was often a known fact that her curiosity wouldn't be satiated until she saw a bit more. Otherwise, she'd only end up coming back at some point - with or without a guardian. After all, she rarely came across a two story facility complete with a stocked hangar. It was the theoretical 'jackpot'. Anything before had just been a link shack or two, maybe a wooden shed with old crates, and a few degraded vehicles. If the interior wasn't ruined by water damage, she might even be able to get into a server room or at least one computer terminal. This was an excitement she couldn't share with her reluctant ( anti- technological ) companion and instead it filtered out as annoyance.

ㅤShe offered an appropriate look of ' will you calm down? ' at his hissing and insistence on leaving. Yet she couldn't ignore the grip he had on his bow, the readied stance, the clear anxiousness over something she couldn't sense. Na'vi instincts were much sharper than a human's, she knew better than to brush it off as nothing. Her attention lingered a second before she looked back at the datapad. The circle loader had been stuck at eighty-three percent, leaving her to sit up on the glass of the open driver pit and look around.

ㅤThe hangers high ceilings allowed for the strangest echoes from both within and out. The patch of sunlight gave just enough lighting to see, but anything past the third standing AMP suit was nothing more than a silhouette. That suddenly begged the notation of why this suit was on the ground. Once they were in their holding docks, they were fairly sturdy and would take a great deal to - the bolts holding down the base of the suit dock had been ripped up with the frame. Something.. knocked this one over. He was right..

ㅤSoon as the number hit one hundred, she pulled on the cord and popped it out of the port before sliding off the glass." Okay, " she said, trying to hide the edge in her tone that would betray a slight rising anxiousness. " we can go. Maybe not that way. " she gestured to the 'backdoor' they used. " That sucked. We'll find an actual door. " With a slight air of sulking, she started walking towards where she suspected the hanger doors would be, picking through the dim lighting so as not to knock into anything.

ㅤ" You get mad if I stay inside too long and then get mad when I do go outside. " She said, wanting to lighten the sudden serious mood descending on them. " At this point you gotta pick one thing to be mad about 'cause it's not gonna be good for your hea- " One step further and her words were accompanied by the hollow sound of something scattering at her feet. Peering down, the realization slowly dawned on her that she had just walked into the dried bones of a ribcage. She shuffled backwards with a shudder and small curses. Unbeknownst them, the creature that had caused the demise of many of these scattered bones had been clinging into the top of one of the shrouded AMP suits, staring down at them through its red glassy eyes, unappreciative of the intruders.

❝  addi!  ❞  neteyam  hissed  as  the  girl  disappeared  within  a  narrow  opening.  he  crouched  low,  forced  to  maneuver  his  body  at  an  awkward  and  uncomfortable  angle  in  order  to  crawl  after  her.  it  was  a  tight  fit,  the  edges  of  where  the  sheets  of  steel  had  fallen  and  the  overgrown  vegetation  around  it  scraping  harshly  at  his  skin.

          neteyam  shook  off  his  discomfort  once  he  was  inside,  standing  to  his  full  height  and  watching  her  with  a  stiffened  upper  lip.  both  she  and  lo'ak  seemed  eager  to  discount  his  caution  for  cowardice  leaving  him  with  little  option  but  to  follow  them  into  their  foolish  treasure  hunts.  he  inspected  the  AMP  suit  she  had  found  for  only  a  moment  before  he  turned  his  attention  back  to  the  contents  of  the  hanger.

          much  of  it  appeared  to  be  abandoned  as  opposed  to  damaged,  neglected  and  left  to  errode  from  time.  the  darkness  however  concealed  much,  only  a  thin  strip  of  natural  light  falling  from  a  large  open  hole  in  the  ceiling.  he  paced  around  addi's  suit  as  she  scavenged  for  whatever  it  was  she  was  searching  for,  ignoring  her  criticism  and  watching  their  surroundings.           there  were  the  familiar  sounds  of  nature,  the  wind  current  as  it  whistled  through  open  crevices,  the  trickle  of  water  from  a  loosened  pipe  or  a  natural  stream,  but  the  shuffle  against  hardened  steel  was  not  natural.  neteyam  hissed  sharply  as  she  called  out  louder  than  necessary.

          ❝  just  hurry  up  so  we  can  get  out  of  here,  ❞  neteyam  whispered  furiously,  he  tipped  his  chin  back,  sniffing  the  air.  there  was  the  unmistakable  sting  of  steel  and  metal,  the  cold  scent  that  accompanied  human  technology  but  there  was  something  else  as  well  .  .  .  blood.  neteyam  snatched  his  bow  from  over  his  shoulder  and  had  an  arrow  notched  within  a  single  fluid  motion,  ❝  there's  something  in  here,  ❞    //    @tahnisreu  continued  from  here