[It is the noise of the creature's body thumping into the forest floor that stirs Liem from his tense, anticipatory stillness. He straightens from his tightly wound shooting stance, letting the quarrel in his grasp slide back into its quiver as he walks closer to join Akua beside the fallen carcass.
It certainly looks dead, though he supposes it might only be stunned. But the slow seep of blood weeping from its throat suggests that whatever mechanisms had been in charge of its circulatory system are no longer operational.]
Nice spell, [he returns when he reaches her and looks down at the dead thing. When it doesn't move in response to her nudging boot, he returns his crossbow to its place slung over his back and draws a long, dark-bladed dagger instead, crouching down to examine it more closely. He starts with the face and the other visible details on its exterior, but cutting the thing open is definitely on the horizon.]
I put magic on my bow, briefly — but most of it was on me, to augment my strikes. The bolts themselves [— he pulls one free of the creature's chest, trailing greenish-blue fluid —] are mundane. The magic on them was wholly transitory.
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It certainly looks dead, though he supposes it might only be stunned. But the slow seep of blood weeping from its throat suggests that whatever mechanisms had been in charge of its circulatory system are no longer operational.]
Nice spell, [he returns when he reaches her and looks down at the dead thing. When it doesn't move in response to her nudging boot, he returns his crossbow to its place slung over his back and draws a long, dark-bladed dagger instead, crouching down to examine it more closely. He starts with the face and the other visible details on its exterior, but cutting the thing open is definitely on the horizon.]
I put magic on my bow, briefly — but most of it was on me, to augment my strikes. The bolts themselves [— he pulls one free of the creature's chest, trailing greenish-blue fluid —] are mundane. The magic on them was wholly transitory.