The White Hare

A New Visitor

Inside of the small hut the buck was ignoring the conversation going on outside in favor of reading the [Blackgate Guard Basic Training Manual]. He has read it over and practiced a majority of the useful contents within the manual since getting it. He hasn't gotten much out of it if he was being honest. The people who would be using this manual are normally larger than he was and the opponents they would be facing would be of equal or smaller size than the reader. Jack's main targets have almost always been larger. Rubbing his eyes he puts the book back in his bag and instead grabs a half finished carving he has been working on for a while.

The hunk of wood it came from was soft and rather porous. Using his claws he takes small slivers out of the statuette in the shape of a seal. It was almost done so he would have to start a new one after it was finished. Considering how little features a seal he was carving had, it wouldn't be long.

'I'm fine, I'm okay. Nothing happened this time when I went under. Nyxia is alive and unharmed. No elves were injured. Alhrana and Findrel are okay.' He assures himself. Then he thinks about how his family back in his mother warren is being protected as well. Though his additional thought about being betrayed and his family rotting with their lower legs cut off crossed his mind long enough to make him take a moment to breathe. Ignoring the little voices that whispered the worst case scenarios he did all he could to focus on the task at hand.

Slowly using a thumb claw he carves the eyes in the seal only to almost screw up when he feels another qi signature get close to the side of the hut without an opening. With a sigh he sets down the carving he had barely touched up on and moves with Alhrana towards the disturbance. A gentle snow drifting down upon him exiting the hut.

Drifting through the air was a small wisp that began to move away and enter the forest. Snow and small white lights circling around a small point in the center of the apparition. Looking upward, Jack notes the sudden increase in snow.

[You have successfully predicted the weather 20 times before reaching 1 year in age! You can now use the [Weather Sense] to predict the weather and its severity.]

Jack rolls his eyes as he is reminded of just how young this body technically is and how weird it was he was considered an adult before he was even two months old chronologically speaking. Taking a breathe he gets back on track and asks, "That a Will-O'-The-Wisp or some other spirit? I didn't get to use [Appraisal] in time."

"That would be an ice spirit. It's just poking around a bit. It's harmless really. Just pays to make sure when you deal with 'em." He says as he heads back to the front of the hut.

Jack instead gets an idea with a hint of mischief in his eyes. Moving out to the edge of the somehow still barren circle, the buck begins to gather piles of snow and gets to work on making something. Making his heat fluctuate as needed to melt the snow, pack it and then freeze it into solid ice for some parts. The small ice spirit moves closer to him as he works. The small ball of light hovering around him.

Starlet snickers and looks at the buck as he appears to be making a snowman. Eating her chips she thinks about how she hasn't heard much from Terra lately. After she went out with her friends to have some fun the goddess of information hasn't gotten many visitors in general. Maybe people were just busy.

It was a shame what happened earlier but Jack seemed to be recovering.

'I wish I knew how to deal with that damn [Caloric Level Drain] or at least offer some advice on how to mitigate the effects.' She drinks a soda as she changes screens briefly to see a group of heroes fighting an arguably evil villain that just so happens to have the [Demon Lord] title. Nothing appears to be going wrong from a neutral standpoint but the party does get defeated and then thrown out by their capes. The so called "Demon Lord" of this part of Terra shakes his head and offers a prayer to one of the local deities.