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singindemonhq) wrote2003-05-25 08:40 am
singindemonhq) wrote2003-05-25 08:40 am
So We Split the Scene
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It turned out that Erynne had seen the thing that attacked me, and probably killed it. It was scattered all around us. In this dimension "a salad meal" looks like having a whole new meaning.
The plants seem to have several ways of hunting, too. We found yellow flowers that drip with honey, they seemed to be attracting in insects and even small animals.
The flowers aren't something that can be kept and carried, but they'll do in an emergency. There are spiny little yellow berries, too, easy to carry. Oddly enough, those aren't poisonous, and there's a lot of sugar in them.
We'd found my own box of tricks under the place where I'd gone to sleep, including the medical stuff. My welts turned out to be from venom - the way things are that's a lot better than if'd been allergy.
Turned out that Erynne had come through the portal a way upriver, and she'd checked out the turf. There were cave systems higher up and living under cover seemed a lot better than making the car a kind of base camp. I smoked up to take a look too and there was one we both liked. It was right beside the river, in a way.
You had to look real hard to see it at all. I guess there'd been a fallaway, taking a deep scoop out of the lower half of the cliff. The cave entrance was a narrow crack in the rock, not too much wider than my shoulders, and the passage inside led upwards for a few paces until it broadened out into a cave the size of a small ballroom.
The real kick was the waterfall. This one was quite wide. The water fall ran in a wide, shallow sheet that fell clear of the concave cliff, and curtained the entrance to the cave itself. If Erynne hadn't stopped to drink in exactly the right place we'd never have known it was there. When conditions were right there was a rainbow caught in the spray, and the light could reflect back inside the cave. That was a scene good enough for anyone and no glamor necessary. Real nice.
I'd have wanted that cave even if there hadn't been fish in the pool. There were, though, and with a wide meshed net across the outlet end we could be living pretty well.
The link, or whatever it was, seemed to have broken after the emergency and I still hadn't had that talk with Erynne. Somehow, when we were looking it was as if we planning to be both in that one cave. That probably wouldn't be a good idea, though. I was going to have us back through a portal fast - assuming that the Sunnydale dimension still exists at all.
Later, we went back to the car to collect some supplies. There was no sign of Percy or Samantha. I supposed they'd gone hunting again, or that they'd thought it over and moved into one of the caves themselves to sleep through the heat of the day.
There didn't seem to be enough missing for them to have moved into a cave, though, unless they'd decided to keep their stuff stacked in the car. We hadn't moved all that far up-river and I found I was hoping that the others would choose to stick around the original site, but they weren't my first priority by a long way.
There was so much army gear in the car that it looked as though we'd have ample even if we were here for months. I'd liberated the batteries so I took almost everything likely to fit my own stuff. I'd need that up and running to get us out of here anyway. Erynne pounced on a parcel that turned out to contain a couple of books. Wicca stuff, I think - they were hers anyway, brought with her days before.
I went through the rest of the stuff carefully. I couldn't find one major priority. There were no medical supplies at all - that been a forlorn hope, anyway. Maybe Erynne had something. There were multiple weapons. I took at least one of everything that we'd got in duplicate plus half the knives.
We hadn't figured on camping out and there was no salt. I just hoped Erynne knew more about living out like this than I did.The Minions usually handle all the practical stuff and I'd been thought strange because I could boil a kettle if I had to. There were likely to be problems ahead with that perpetual overcast, too. I'd read somewhere that any habitable planet has to have a moon, maybe more than one. If a place hasn't got a moon it hasn't got breathable air.
We wouldn't be able to see the moon, here, and any kind of magic could work differently. We had trank rifles and a kind of trank pistol, and a lot of the ammunition. I added two of those guns and half the ammunition to the packs.
It hasn't rained here yet, but when I thought about it, leaving a note on the car didn't seem a good idea. I'm making a seperate disc and sticking it in the car's playback system, to tell Percy and Samantha where we've gone.
It turned out that Erynne had seen the thing that attacked me, and probably killed it. It was scattered all around us. In this dimension "a salad meal" looks like having a whole new meaning.
The plants seem to have several ways of hunting, too. We found yellow flowers that drip with honey, they seemed to be attracting in insects and even small animals.
The flowers aren't something that can be kept and carried, but they'll do in an emergency. There are spiny little yellow berries, too, easy to carry. Oddly enough, those aren't poisonous, and there's a lot of sugar in them.
We'd found my own box of tricks under the place where I'd gone to sleep, including the medical stuff. My welts turned out to be from venom - the way things are that's a lot better than if'd been allergy.
Turned out that Erynne had come through the portal a way upriver, and she'd checked out the turf. There were cave systems higher up and living under cover seemed a lot better than making the car a kind of base camp. I smoked up to take a look too and there was one we both liked. It was right beside the river, in a way.
You had to look real hard to see it at all. I guess there'd been a fallaway, taking a deep scoop out of the lower half of the cliff. The cave entrance was a narrow crack in the rock, not too much wider than my shoulders, and the passage inside led upwards for a few paces until it broadened out into a cave the size of a small ballroom.
The real kick was the waterfall. This one was quite wide. The water fall ran in a wide, shallow sheet that fell clear of the concave cliff, and curtained the entrance to the cave itself. If Erynne hadn't stopped to drink in exactly the right place we'd never have known it was there. When conditions were right there was a rainbow caught in the spray, and the light could reflect back inside the cave. That was a scene good enough for anyone and no glamor necessary. Real nice.
I'd have wanted that cave even if there hadn't been fish in the pool. There were, though, and with a wide meshed net across the outlet end we could be living pretty well.
The link, or whatever it was, seemed to have broken after the emergency and I still hadn't had that talk with Erynne. Somehow, when we were looking it was as if we planning to be both in that one cave. That probably wouldn't be a good idea, though. I was going to have us back through a portal fast - assuming that the Sunnydale dimension still exists at all.
Later, we went back to the car to collect some supplies. There was no sign of Percy or Samantha. I supposed they'd gone hunting again, or that they'd thought it over and moved into one of the caves themselves to sleep through the heat of the day.
There didn't seem to be enough missing for them to have moved into a cave, though, unless they'd decided to keep their stuff stacked in the car. We hadn't moved all that far up-river and I found I was hoping that the others would choose to stick around the original site, but they weren't my first priority by a long way.
There was so much army gear in the car that it looked as though we'd have ample even if we were here for months. I'd liberated the batteries so I took almost everything likely to fit my own stuff. I'd need that up and running to get us out of here anyway. Erynne pounced on a parcel that turned out to contain a couple of books. Wicca stuff, I think - they were hers anyway, brought with her days before.
I went through the rest of the stuff carefully. I couldn't find one major priority. There were no medical supplies at all - that been a forlorn hope, anyway. Maybe Erynne had something. There were multiple weapons. I took at least one of everything that we'd got in duplicate plus half the knives.
We hadn't figured on camping out and there was no salt. I just hoped Erynne knew more about living out like this than I did.
We wouldn't be able to see the moon, here, and any kind of magic could work differently. We had trank rifles and a kind of trank pistol, and a lot of the ammunition. I added two of those guns and half the ammunition to the packs.
It hasn't rained here yet, but when I thought about it, leaving a note on the car didn't seem a good idea. I'm making a seperate disc and sticking it in the car's playback system, to tell Percy and Samantha where we've gone.