0001 - Wei Jing
It would be incredibly... Incorrect to claim that everything was fine, and she had had worse.
Because Wei Jing--almost by definition--could not possibly be having it worse right now! Her peaceful life was shattered, her only family slaughtered by parties unknown--and when it came to surviving. She was...
Her stomach grumbled, and Wei Jing shifted sheepishly in her hideout. She was hungry, and felt it would be premature to set a fire, so she couldn't even cook anything even if she could hunt something down and get it ready! Oh sure she could try to eat it raw, but Papa always said that such savagery was fit only for beasts--she should be above such measures.
So, it was some nuts and berries, and it would remain nuts and berries for the forseeable future. It would probably keep her up and alive and moving but...
Well, it wasn't sustainable!
She needed a Plan--chasing after the perpetrators right now... It would maybe help her feel satisfied right now, but unless she had the power to fly...
Wei Jing squinted off into the roof of the cave, and willed herself up in the air.
Unfortunately, all that this did was trigger another grumble from her stomach. Nope, she couldn't fly mysteriously.
So that meant that she'd be chasing after things capable of flying through the sky at great speed. Even if that was all they could do, that was suicide. Papa raised her better than to do such a silly thing, even to avenge him!
So, she needed some way of deciding how to move forward. Going North was the logical move... But that's also where the attackers came from, and walking blind into what may be enemy territory would be dangerous.
South though... South is where the humans lived--and while Ye Fengyu was nice enough, she had to get to him first, assuming she could find him--and that walking around down in human territory didn't get her kidnapped first.
At that thought, Wei Jing brought a hand up, rubbing one of her horns. Not really any good way of hiding those either...
So, what was she supposed to do? Go north and hope for the best? Go south with vague direction and hope for the best?
She Could go to Su Ren's village--in fact, that might be the best move to make in the immediate future. But there was a chance he was attacked too--it wasn't that far away and if these were just very powerful bandits...
Wei Jing looked to the cleaver, old and beaten, sitting before her. Chopping things down wasn't that hard... But if she ran into something that could take a hit or two, that would be the end of it.
She needed an edge.
Fortunately. Papa had taught her well--and taught her how to shoot. While his crossbow was nowhere to be found, that didn't mean she couldn't put one together herself--and she'd feel a lot safer with one in hand to help even the odds if she ran into a beast.
There must be enough stuff lying around the ruins of home that she could put something together with--and it'd be an opportunity to see if the attackers had missed something in their devilry to boot.
It was a plan, and that's something far better than she had a little bit ago! She'd try it! Having direction would make things much better!