[open] if you could only see

[exsoldier]

Who: Zack & YOU, plus some closed prompts!
When: Throughout Aguril
Where: Throughout Aefenglom and the Wilde
What: August catch-all: quests, Zack going feral, red string spell stuff
Warnings: Violence due to going feral

[ prompts are in the comments below! if you want a specific starter for anything, you can pm me or hit me up over at demonology! ]

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[chaoticbeauty]

[ That moment of confusion would have been easy to miss if she hadn’t been paying attention. 30 years at Court had given her plenty of time to practice picking up the nuanced shifts in demeanor and attention -- exploitation of weaknesses often following quickly after if needed. And apparently it was needed.

In the time it takes for him to be teleported backward, she grabs one of the towels she’d put in a basket by the door for washing. The one Geralt had used to dry off. As the creature charges, she tests a theory and throws it out into the garden. A concentration of the other man’s scent, ready to teleport him again if that doesn’t work. ]

[exsoldier]

[ The chimera breaks through the gate which is just ajar enough to grant him passage and into the garden, claw-like talons digging deep into the earth as he lopes forward. A leap at this new prey had been the plan, at least up until the cloth is thrown off to the side.

There, again, that smell. He skids to a stop, nose wrinkling with a scent that shouldn't be here. His head swivels this way and that, searching for the wolf but seeing no sign of that shock of white off in the woods.

He moves over to the discarded cloth and gives it a few good sniffs, then lifts his head to stare at the woman where she stands. He snarls, but has no way of asking her how this came to be. If nothing else, the confusion has briefly distracted him from his original goal of hunting her down. ]

okokok sorry for the delay - feel free to ignore

[chaoticbeauty]

[ He stops and her theory proves to be right, even if she doesn’t know that they’d already battled tonight. She watches the reaction, trying to mentally keep up and jump through some hoops she hadn’t planned on having to navigate. If only she knew what was waiting for her later.

She almost doesn’t respond, tempted to take the opportunity to slip away into the protection of her cottage, but she’s never really been one to run -- both when she’s in immediate and delayed danger. ]

I have no interest in boring you with the details. [ Not even sure the comprehension would be there, honestly. But, she was something of an expert of holding a one-sided conversation considering half the time Geralt’s responses were more a series of sounds some days than actual words. ] Just know that if something happens to me, you will probably have to deal with him. So choose your next actions carefully.

it's fine! she can teleport him one more time and then he'll run off and we should be good?

[exsoldier]

[ The words don't mean anything to the monster, save for the tone that they're spoken in. Guarded, yet carrying a hint of a warning. This woman is somehow associated with that wolf -- or maybe it simply came here before the chimera, and she'd been strong enough to drive it off.

Letting out a huff, the chimera paws at the ground, tail flicking this way and that as it decides on its next move. Giving up on prey isn't normally its way, but it's beginning to wonder if the woman is prey at all.

The moon has it in a frenzy, though, and it's so close that her smell is clogging its senses.

So, one more time -- it charges forward and leaps. ]

[chaoticbeauty]

[ Well... Apparently the scent of another predator isn't enough to stave off unwanted attacks. Or it's not strong enough around her property to do just that. Something to keep in mind for another day.

Fuck.

She pours a bit more into it this time, a dangerous game on its own considering the moon effects on her powers, teleporting him back. And this time, a little dirt from her garden goes with him, her precision beginning to fade. Yennefer watches, ready to retreat inside if he remains persistent. ]

[exsoldier]

[ It happens again.

The chimera doesn't have enough of a reference of how it's possible to know what to make of it. Concepts of magic and how it functions have fallen by the wayside as he's given in to the animal within, and higher cognition isn't really in the cards. Any frustration or anger is superceded by another about of nausea.

The beast vomits, chucking up flesh and bone from an earlier kill. Instead of tracking down more food, this encounter has only caused him to lose what he already had. Finally, he gives up the hunt, deciding it isn't worth it to keep harassing prey that turned out to be hardier than expected.

He turns tail and vanishes into the woods. ]