This idiot mount didn't even wash her clothes or the feathers... Well, I guess we aren't anywhere near water right now... Let's see, as I stop pulling mist in on an in-breath I begin to lose health fast with every out-breath as I send out my mist quick. Onward my infinite army, HAHAHA, oh shit about to die... guess I need to revolve healing and this for now... with a few in and out breaths I have completely healed myself as I stretch my mist out further and further. Like a blind army, they touch everything looking for their target. After a short while of searching, I find my target and immediately begin to pull back the massive amount of mist I sent out as I realize I am covered in sweat and trembling and this mount has started hugging me outta concern again... Idiot girl you realize I can break right through that newly remade feather shirt of yours right? It's not like that bird had that strong of feather high quality than your previous course cloth sure but it's still held in by that same cloth and I can still break the feathers with my claws... Ah, whatever she can't hear me anyways... But she feels me... not like that perverts... I mean probably but I doubt she even realizes that but that's not the point she's gotta feel my annoyances. As the billows of smoke roll in and I slowly consume the infinite army of mine and begin to lose the over-exertion and the girl finally loosens her hug so I climb back to my seat. Then I point the arrow and design a little river to match what I felt in front of it.
The dumb mount took a second staring at the new scene before her, before her eyes lit up... Guess she really wants to clean too... Or she's dying of thirst I don't know she is sucking in a lot of mist with every breath. I guess I could stop that... I mean it's a bit weird to feel the inside of someone casually but whatever. Can my mist be food as well? I mean it makes no sense as it's water but it's also a part of my body right? I guess what I'm asking is... Am I edible? Looking down at my front leg I debate it... I can heal... shrugging I give it a try and bite down hard... but nothing... Uh... wait but my teeth went through that turkey easy but I can't break my own skin? Weird... Anyways this tastes weird so I'll give up for now... Going back to meditating as Ellie trudged on in our journey about halfway there I felt something so I immediately erase the arrow and river image and turn them into claws a few of which that go to hastily dig holes in a nearby tree for the girl's turkey leg climbers while the others run into the distance while I put up a little image in a cloud for the girl of a large boar being attacked by a few indigo lizards like things who are swimming inside the ground like water and leaping out firing rocks out there mouths before diving back in sadly they are headed our way. As the first hole is carved the girl has already started climbing waiting for the next one to be finished as she realized the danger. As we are about 3 feet in the air on the tree my cloudy claws have reached the boar and start swiping at it and its chasers to send them away.
"-2"
"-2"
"-1"
"-3"
Oh wow... Clouds of mist don't work as claws when you are just hitting randomly guess hitting them in the brain was totally the right way to go. Luckily I managed to offend everyone involved. So there's that... A series of roars sound out but due to the two different kinds of roars, I don't even know how it sounded. Continuing to attack as they come after us I force some of my mist into their eye sockets like usual to go in for that brain as they reach the tree we are on Ellie is already about 12 feet up about to reach a solid branch but when the little lizards see the cloudy claws and a solid target with them they immediately start shooting stones at us and the boar immediately forgets the previous enemy and start banging his tusks onto the tree. Clearly, he thinks we are an easy meal... Clawing at the stones as they fly I manage to make the shots miss... I can't stop them outright. After the first round of shots, I have already condensed little clouds inside the enemy's heads and immediately turn them into claws and swipe out.
"-26"
"-30"
"-19"
"-39"
Yeah, that's better... As I rejoice in my choice the stone spitters immediately jump into the ground and somehow my misty claws are pushed out of the ground... Oh so they can phase through solid stone but I can't so... Maybe they got away? As the thought crosses my mind they pop their heads up and take shots at the branch that Ellie has curled up on and immediately pop back down. Cheap... Welp, I can deal with the pig at least he can phase into anything or stop my mist attacks.
Over and over I claw out at the boar as I cause the stone shots to miss me and Ellie, not to mention occasionally managing to play whack a mole with the little lizards but deal very little damage as I can't strike their organs directly. After a good minute or two, I hear a ring and look over to Alex.
"ThristleBoar level 11 slain Exp+ 30*6
level 6 exp 30/200"
That's nice... Now I can focus on the whack a mole. After a good thirty minutes of whack a mole I manage to grab one of the lizards and hold it above the ground and hit it a couple of times.
"Stonegeco level 16 slain Exp 20*10
level 7 exp 30/250"
Silence... The little heads stopped coming up after the first one died. They appear to have left. After a good ten minutes or so I decided to investigate since I am a smaller target and can fly I wrap my wings in clouds and jump off Ellie's shoulder inching towards the edge of the branch as Ellie stares at me concern visible in her eyes, leaving a few claws behind I leap and slowly glide my way around the tree till I hit the ground and look around carefully as my wing clouds morph into claws to defend me as I look about. After a minute or two, I feel Ellie passing my claws apparently having decided they probably left. I follow her down with my claws just in case. After she reached the bottom she pulls out a chunk of bird bones and began to cut the boar's skin. A couple of cuts in the bird bone broke and she grabs another bird bone before starting again... This'll be a while. Walking over I sit down next to her as she works and focuses more on my meditation after a couple of minutes I hear the girl thumping about and shouting so I look over and see her angrily hitting the boar next to a pile of bone shards... guess the hallow bird bones don't have that great of durability ha... Let's give her a little help, with a deep-out breath I make a large puff of mist into a cloudy claw and begin to cut at the boar's lower leg repeated. Not quite as sharp but infinite durability.
"Oh... cool, can you cut out that left I'm sure this thing's legs would make a better knife..."
That was my plan but I guess she can see that... Whatever... Ellie gives up for now and walks over and starts gathering the woodchips from the holes from before into her pant pockets before gathering some big twigs and collecting them all in a pile then she whispers something incomprehensible under her breath and stretches her right arm out and a spark flew from her hand... Oh shit, my mount knows magic... Can she do anything else? With a crisp snap, the leg finally got cut off and I begin to skin it with my cloudy claws before pulling off the meat on it. As Ellie appears to be trying again as that magic she knows isn't strong enough and didn't manage to catch the wood on fire she grabs some dried leaves nearby and crumbles them up in her hands before putting them underneath the woodpile and tries again. After a few tries, the girl has finally got the fire started before she turns back to me. As it took her awhile I've already pretty much worked this thing all the way to the bone as she sees that she walks over and grabs it happily... Hey, I wasn't done how am I gonna carve it into a knife if you take it from me? As I complain inside she has grabbed a rock and started grinding away with it on the bone and making the edge... Gonna be a while till lunch it seems... Just to be nice I take my remaining cloudy claws and begin to slowly cut down from just below the boar's ribs to its genitals it's a girl it seems just for your information... don't know how that's important but whatever... After finishing the cut I dig a hole in the ground about 30 feet away with a claw before dragging the boar over there Ellie is too spaced out making her knife to notice me draining the boar's blood and pulling out the organs before burying the bloody hole and dropping the meat and skin I pulled off the boar's leg bone on top of it before pulling the boar back and sitting it next to Ellie as she appears to be about to finish her knife.
When she got up to start working on the boar she jumps in fright before turning back to me curiously. I yawn and make a little cloud that shows the terrain around us and building images of the blood and organs before making them all fall into a certain spot on the terrain before fading into it. After that, I breathe the little cloud back in and turn my attention back to Ellie who is now staring at me... Hmm did I do something wrong? I buried the blood away from us as to avoid attracting predators if possible and I don't think we plan to eat the organs... did she? Hmm...
"You are a weird beast... you know that... You just did a lotta stuff you shouldn't know to do." hearing her words it hits me... Oh yeah, that... makes sense whoops. With an imaginary chuckle, I close my eyes and begin to meditate again not caring about her curiosity and doubt. After a bit, the feelings that came from the binding faded and I assume she's let it go and started working on the boar. After what I assume was a couple of hours the sun begins to go down as the girl has finished up cooking a good chunk of the boar and gives me some. Yawning I starting chewing on the meat as I shift my mist produced to start making cloudy claws and forcing them up to the branch Ellie was hiding on earlier and start slowly digging away to make a little nook. Ellie notices my claws leaving but doesn't realize what I was doing till she saw the wood shavings fall down from the tree. Seeing me at work after she had finished eating she grabs the skin she had pulled off the boar and a bunch of its bones and starts making something. As crimson spreads across the horizon, she has fashioned what looks like a make-shift backpack outta the rawhide and bones before dumping in some of the cooked meat... Gross, I'm not eating that... You didn't even clean the inside of the hide girl... Eh, whatever still not even entirely sure I can eat... After putting away some of the meat and tying her knife to the outside of the backpack she walks over to me and picks me up... Hey... I can do it myself I grumbled as I climbed out of her arms and onto her shoulder before slapping her in the face with my wing as I jumped covering my wings in clouds and flying up to the tree and checking on my work.
After seeing my progress that's pretty good about a 2 foot deep 5 feet wide hole in the tree above the branch... Wide enough to lay down and deep enough for her to not roll out by accident and fall down I guess... After checking on that I turn around and look down... She's climbing slower due to the extra weight. Seeing as the construction is good enough I take my cloudy claws and shroud her and her backpack in clouds as I push up. "HEY" oops... Hearing her shout I move the clouds away from her breasts, crotch, hands, and face... all those could have been the issue... Giving me a stare like I'm the one who tried to fiddle with her junk in her sleep before she begins to climb again much faster with my clouds lowering her weight by pushing her up. After getting up she looks at me before turning to the hole I dug... "Nice... a bit cramped." You wanna complain you do it. After complaining she tosses her new bag into the hole and grabs me, hey why you always grabbing lady... sigh... whatever... as she pulled me on top of herself like I'm some kind of stuffed animal she curls up lays her head on the backpack. As we lay there I hear a gentle sobbing and out of instinct curled up a bit closer to her while I meditate. She moves a hand to pet me... I'm not a pet!!! Ah, can't speak... Eventually, her sobbing slowly comes to a halt as her hand that sliding across my side from head to stomach stops, and the feeling of her chest expanding and shrinking slows. Looking over I can see her reddish wet face eyes closed sleeping... well at least the noise has passed... If only the smell could be fixed.