76 Chapter 4 - Journey to Essenark (1/2)
”Ah, fastravel, I'll never take you for granted again,” Kenji sighed as he sat uponTenko's furred back. They'd been travelling for days now, ever deeper into the mountainous wilds that hid the large village of Essenark.
”Kenji, how much longer?” Tenko huffed, having asked that same question all morning.
”An hour, if this map is to be believed. Since it's just a collection of landmarks that's hard to say really, we might be wildly far way or right snuggled up against the village perimeter for all I know,” Kenji's head lolled to the side. Bored, he watched the swathes of green forest pass in a blur.
”Tenko can go faster, hold on Kenji! Hold on Tenko's pack!” Focusing, Tenko pushed herself harder, their speed increased dramatically although Tenko's breathing became quickly ragged.
”Don't push yourself too hard,” Kenji warned. ”These roads are normally blocked with monsters according to the guild, you'll need to be ready to fight if that happens.”
Ignoring him, Tenko bound along even harder, eyes focused only on the road. Sighing, Kenji let her. With his stored forms, any monster that would pose a threat would have to be something truly spectacular, and willing to attack a giant wolf at that.
”Kenji, a body,” Tenko whispered, slowing down as she peered at a nearby bush where a leg stuck out. The tree above it was filled with ripped cloth, the poor victim's head seating on a branch, his goatee drenched in crimson.
”Turn back to your normal self, and let's get going,” Kenji whispered, pulling his stone-fused sword free as he stalked forward. Arthur had called the blade 'Honour' in life, and how that very same Honour lay in his firm hands again. Well, Kenji's copy of Arthur's firm hands at least.
”We aren't at Essenark yet, Tenko doesn't want to waste time!” Tenko growled. Kenji merely pointed at a waystone, writing on it indicating that Essenark was less than a mile away.
Growling deeper, Tenko turned back into her regular form and grumpily allowed Kenji to put a thick cloak over her. These were folk that had had werewolves in their forests and had hunted said werewolves for generations if the reports were to be believed. Not the type to flaunt in front of, not when they were all descendent from those rangers and explorers to thick in the head to realise setting up a community so far into the monster-infested territory was a terrible idea.
”The Hunter General can't detect Tenko, Kenji, it'll be fine,” Tenko said. Kenji bound a thick blue scarf around her neck all the same and pulled it up to obscure her pointed teeth from view.
Not much he could do about her luminous moon pupils, however, wishing he had a pair of those aviator sunglasses cool cops wear in TV shows on hand. For now, he just pulled down her hood, the pair of moons reduced to a soft white glow in the dark folds of cloth.
”The fact they have an entire organisation dedicated to hunting down your kind at all should concern you Tenko. I'll be honest, if you're going to be this hasty then perhaps you should head back to Tariak.”
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