The Revenant

Joke Attempts

ESKARINA

We all eyed Amaani,who continued to smile at all of us.

"This isn't going to work." Elena said.

Amaani frowned,stomping. "We haven't even tried yet!"

"Amaani's got a point. We can at least try."

All eye's fell onto me. I shrugged. "Fuck it. I'm in. So whats the plan?"

Amaani put a finger on her chin,biting her lip. Her facial expression showed she was slightly panicked. Obviously she hadn't thought this far ahead. I doubted she actually thought we'd agree to her idea at all.

"You made such a grand suggestion but have no idea or plan to follow up with?" Tyrese asked with a sigh of dissapointment.

"Shut up! I'll think of something!"

Amaani bit her lip slightly.

"Let's just start small...like knock knock jokes." I suggested.

"That's...actually not such a bad idea." Elena said,standing up.

The General dusted off her armoured leggings,folding her arms once more,her hips dropping a bit to the side as she stood in her usual dominant pose. "So? What are we waiting for? Let's go."

"Do we even know where he is?"

"It's Nova. He shouldn't be that hard to find. We check the Mess Hall,Our bathroom,my room,or any of the training fields."

"I thought he wouldn't be hard to find Elena...that sounds damn near impossible."

"Not if we split up. Cover more ground that way. There's four of us, and four potential areas for us to find Nova."

"If we split up though...how exactly do we plan on pulling off a joke alone?"

"I could try signal everyone? Us elves are rather good at using our vocal chords to send signals and communicate to animals. I can do the same thing with all of you guys. You'll hear it,it'll give you an idea of where I am."

"Doesn't sound like such a bad idea to me." Tyrese said as he hopped to his feet.

I stood up,dusting off my pants and shaking out my legs which had gone numb from sitting for such a long period of time. "Alright. We find Nova,Amaani will be able to hear any of us with her elven ears if we spot him,she signals everyone else to where the spotter is-"

"We rendevous and figure out what we do from there." Elena said,ending my sentance for me.

"If Elena takes the bathrooms,I'm taking the Mess Hall." Tyrese said.

"I'll search your room's...if thats okay?" Amaani asked.

Elena rolled her eye's. "We're just looking for a boy who stands at 5'8. He shouldn't be that hard to find guys. No need to snoop around or look under tables or do anything crazy. Although...keep an eye upwards. Nova enjoys high places. He climbs up onto the roof supports from time to time."

Amaani nodded.

"Which leaves me to search all the other training grounds...I'm on it."

We all stood in a circle,planning out the last pieces of our master plan,making sure to adress all the pro's and con's,Nova's likes and dislikes, and so on and so forth.

When we finished, and Elena told us all there was to know,we all broke our circle and headed toward our designated destinations.

I arrived at the obstacle course first. There was No Nova to be found there.