An eyebrow raised, Lily watched the man stop some distance away and reply after a little thought. He cut to the heart of the matter and, in doing so, quite quickly struck the reason the young woman was here, claiming that he had experienced the same thing. As he so eloquently put it, 'whisked away without consent or warning to another world', that did seem to be the situation she found herself in. If he were in the same boat, could she count him as somebody to trust? A difficult question, especially when she knew nothing about him. Trust, after all, was an earned commodity.
Giving his response a little thought, Lily was beaten to speech again when he perked up a little, subtly, and muttered something that she only barely caught thanks to the tragic silence befalling this section of the forest. The nature of the quiet question made her briefly wonder if it had been meant for her or not, but then if not then who had the man been speaking to? Either way, a slight tingle ran up her spine after he spoke, as if her body was answering him when her mind did not know.
Her focus had been on this stranger, a mistake that she mentally chided herself for considering the possibilities of ambush in this place, and thus Lily extended her senses to the world around her, opening her mind to the subtleties in the air. The stench of smoke and burned foliage still overpowered anything meaningful, but the woman's eyes and ears worked perfectly fine. There was nothing to see, yet plenty to hear, and to her surprise there was something more as well. She didn't recognize it, the sense, the 'feeling', it was foreign and yet familiar.
Like her mind had been opened to the world on a level unattainable by any normal person. She could 'feel', and she 'felt'... Something. But past this mysterious new sense, there was her hearing, and that picked up something far more familiar: echoing horns, and hoof beats.
Horses? Riders? A hunting party, perhaps? Her eyes moved steadily over the surrounding
I am Inferi.
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