[ Gray is as well-suited as a person could be to scouting the garden — without the power of flight, that is. She's a flea among the grass, hopping nearly weightlessly from peak to peak while scanning for resources, people, lost items, anything that might be worth informing the other Meris about. Even so, she nearly misses the distant glint of something stuck in a tree overhead...
She changes course and begins to traverse the trunk of the tree. It's a journey even for her; the craggy texture of the bark is magnified into an endless series of vertical hills at this size, and the going is uneven and tenuous. Still she climbs doggedly, her limbs sure and swift. For most of her life, mountainsides were all she knew. She pays no mind to the height as she rockets up at a sprint.
Eventually she reaches the shiny thing: a fairy wing trapped in a spiderweb. At the very same time that she lays eyes on it, she catches something in the air coming straight at her. Gray recognizes Amos's beard nearly before the man himself. It's a hearty beard, and not many Shard-Bearers seem willing or capable of matching it.
As much as she's like to greet Amos and admire his new wings, there's no room for pleasantries when he's undoubtedly here for the same reason as she is. With a speck of regret at how rude she's going to have to be, she unstraps a glaive from her back and leaps to a small leaf above the web. She slices the leaf off at the stem and rides it down — right onto the spiderweb, creating a platform for her to stand on. From here, she can try to hack out the fairy wing without getting stuck to the web herself — but the web is strong and stretchy and sticky, and it takes longer than expected for her blade to sever the strands. ]
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She changes course and begins to traverse the trunk of the tree. It's a journey even for her; the craggy texture of the bark is magnified into an endless series of vertical hills at this size, and the going is uneven and tenuous. Still she climbs doggedly, her limbs sure and swift. For most of her life, mountainsides were all she knew. She pays no mind to the height as she rockets up at a sprint.
Eventually she reaches the shiny thing: a fairy wing trapped in a spiderweb. At the very same time that she lays eyes on it, she catches something in the air coming straight at her. Gray recognizes Amos's beard nearly before the man himself. It's a hearty beard, and not many Shard-Bearers seem willing or capable of matching it.
As much as she's like to greet Amos and admire his new wings, there's no room for pleasantries when he's undoubtedly here for the same reason as she is. With a speck of regret at how rude she's going to have to be, she unstraps a glaive from her back and leaps to a small leaf above the web. She slices the leaf off at the stem and rides it down — right onto the spiderweb, creating a platform for her to stand on. From here, she can try to hack out the fairy wing without getting stuck to the web herself — but the web is strong and stretchy and sticky, and it takes longer than expected for her blade to sever the strands. ]