Chapter 1
The red daggers hummed softly in her hands. Normally she wouldn't be able to hear it, but Kasera was standing perfectly till, hidden in a grove of small trees, waiting. She tightened her grip on the handles making her leather gloves creak. Sweat began dripping down her face, matting down her long green hair. It wasn't even midday and the heat was already unbearable, 'Thirty more seconds and I'm out of this jungle shit hole.' she thought, 'thirty more seconds and It's time for some serious R&R' The thought of which brought a oddly mischievous grin to her face.
Heavy footfalls to the southeast snapped her back to attention, something sounded wrong. The steps had a mechanical rhythm. Concentrating, her keen hearing was able to distinguish the whine of servo motors intermixed with the footfalls. Startled for a moment, she took a deep breath to compose herself. She was ready.
Two Sinow reds marched passed her position. "Two!? The damn things were walking in sync to hide their numbers", she cursed softly to herself. She lept to the back of the closet Sinow, plunging both daggers deep into it's unarmoured neck. With a quick twisting motion she managed to sever almost all the neuro-motor connections, It's arms flailed about uselessly. A simple horizontal slice from her right dagger and the head was neatly removed. Like a marionette with it's strings cut, the Sinow collapsed.
Kasera dove for cover behind a nearby tree, just a split second before Sinows claw sliced through the space she had just occupied. A second attack, even quicker then the first, neatly removed the base of the tree. The 'bots attacks, so relentless, prevented her any opportunity to counter-attack. The petite Hunewearl was on the defensive and though nimble and in excellent shape she was fast approaching the point of exhaustion. Desperately she scanned the horizon for something ... anything she could use to her advantage. salvation presented itself in the form of a thick grove of large trees.
She arrived, gasping for breath and on the verge of collapse, with the Sinow hot on her heels. No longer worried about attracting unwanted attention she was able to cast shifta and deband. Power surged through her, she no longer felt the exhaustion, instead she felt confident, almost euphoric. After dodging a particularily vicious attack, the Sinows right claw was imbedded deep into the trunk of one of the larger trees. "Gotcha, fucker!", Kasera screamed running up the stuck arm like a ramp. Diving at it's head with her daggers outstretched in front, she sliced clean through, landing gracefully on the opposite side. She pivoted to face the monster, smiled, then bowed. It teetered awkwardly for a moment, It's massive weight ripping the right arm from it's socket as it crashed to the ground.
"Well, I guess my R&R will have to wait until I can find out what those Sinows were protecting," she sighed.
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