Damian May wrote:
Jaafan burst from the jungle and found himself face to face with three startled looking men, two whirling slings and another carrying a thin iron blade....he released the two children at his side to continue running as he faced the men.
Damian May wrote:
Kuublu and Chiemeka readied their slings as Uruka recovered his weapon and rejoined them, they were just about to release their stones at the approaching figures when they were suddenly revealed to be frightened humans and not attacking Volucreth.
Kharille wrote:
Kuublu catches his own sling shop, he hands his sling to the stranger and drops any the rocks that he gathered as he readies his Assegai and looks beyond the humans....
Ultstadt wrote:
Jaafan opened his mouth to speak until the sling was shoved at him. He took it for a moment, confused, and then shook his head.
"You men, you are armed! Are war band hunting the Volucreth?! Come! Let us attack these bird folk while they are disorganized in their attempts to collect the slaves!" He shouted as he raised his stolen volucreth blade and wheeled around to lead the way back toward his former captors.
Kharille wrote:
Kuublu clutches at the strangers arm.
"We are too few! Lets grab the children and save what we can!"
Kuublu drops the sling and reaches out for one of the kids. He gives the others a look before proceeding to run....
drb1004 wrote:
Chiemeka nods to Kuublu and heads after him.
Ultstadt wrote:
As the stranger’s arm tugs him back, Jaafan turns to them with a quizzical expression. If they were too few now, their numbers were unlikely to change soon, and the disorganization caused by his slave escape would end and leave them at nothing but a worse disadvantage.
He opened his mouth to speak, stopped, turned to look back toward the volucreth camp, turned back to the strangers, and frowned. After a moment he made to follow them, hoping that perhaps they were a vanguard instead of merely cowards. He looked down at his new Volucreth blade and the cloth rags his captors had allowed him to wear, making a dissapproving clicking sound at the sight.
Firestar76 wrote:
Uruka helps with the children his enhanced strength allowing him to carry perhaps two easily.
Jaafan sees with shock the man without the sling, only slightly more muscular than himself but with limbs strangely corded and heavily veined lift the children off the ground with ease.
A dozen or so more people break through the foliage, Jaafan herds them before him as he runs after the other three men now retreating through the jungle.
The dozen or so of them bolt through the undergrowth away from the Volucreth, the captives eyes were wild and staring about as they ran.....
One of the women called out,
" Where are we running to?"Ahead Jaafan and Kuublu suddenly glimpsed movement some 50m ahead through the brush but they could not make out what it was....