Quickly collecting all thirteen of my claws outside the bug's body I carefully cut off the stringer as fast as I am able, whilst I climbed back onto my comfy 'bed', before using a lot of effort to slowly carry it back because leaving a trail from my kill might be bad. Rather than going directly to my house I bring it straight towards the lake without bringing it into the area of my mist then dip it into the water pull it out scrub it before dipping it in again... because mist cannot go inside water... That would make no sense. After about 15 minutes of dipping and scrubbing, I decide it's probably the best I can do before dragging it to the little pool I built and placing it on top of the mud wall rather than taking it directly home then decondensing my cloudy claws before letting it merge with the mist cover near their can never be too safe at least if they attack the bathing area over there we can hide. After all hiding is something I'm the best at. I can make my own camouflaged and mask the whole environment in it after all. I guess if they attacked in large enough number or with a large enough attack they could blow away my entire mist cover. Like that winged dragon's sun like fireball. That could probably kill my current self easily or the water dragon could sit on me... Why am I getting weird thoughts after seeing it's eyes...
Focusing back upon my meditation as the sun begins to rise Ellie rises with it which disturbs my breathing exercise as she was my bed... You never know how hard the floor is till your bed gets up and walks away... Well breakfast is soon I guess. Getting up I condense clouds along my wings as hop into the air and follow her down. Landing my the campfire I look over and see Ellie still climbing down the tree. With a sigh I use cloud pavement on the tree and as she becomes lighter suddenly she misses her hand placement and falls from about half way up as I quickly condense cloudy claws that grab her and slow her descent. "Be careful when you do that!" looking at her with amused smirk like a cute puppy I'd love to point out as long as she doesn't getting crippled I can still heal her. Due to it being only stimulating growth in her I can't replace limbs or fix anything her body can't heal naturally unless she has a regeneration skill... but I can heal just about everything else.
"Ah stop looking at me with those sad eyes I won't stay made at you" Sad eyes? Lady you can feel my emotions so you know I'm not sad... Granted does my face have expressions? I don't have a mirror... Feeling my anger and annoyance she coughs then starts the fire before she gets up to go hunt something. Shrugging I jump up onto her shoulder and stretch my mist along the ground outside the cover to find prey. Seeing as most animals avoid or have been led away from my mist cover and the rest are simply not willing to go anywhere near the river with those fish in the water I think I can guess why... Luckily the girl didn't try to cook any of the older corpses that I've yet to clean up entirely by throwing them into the river. Those fish are scary but also very helpful when it comes to cleaning or getting rid of evidence? After finding the perfect small prey I use my claws to lead away the bigger monsters as the little guy chomps away on a large plant happily. I'd normally hunt myself but my exp is still in the danger zone as my body has not grown enough to begin leveling again. I don't know what the call our prey as it doesn't really make a ton of sense based on animals I know.
The prey has large front legs and short stubby back legs a large front and thin lower half like some kinda bodybuilder who skipped leg day it's completely covered in red fur and has the face of a monkey but it's back legs look more like a bunny while it's torso is like a dog and long front legs are shaped like frog legs. They are all covered in hair and part of a mammal but the general shape reminds me heavily of frogs... four spindly looking blob like fingers extending from each orb like palm that is much larger in comparison to the fingers like the fingers stopped growing it's narrow and long yet muscular leg bigger at the four arm then the bicep. While that's going on with the front legs the ends of the little bunny legs at the back looks a bit like a dogs paws. What is this monstrous thing? It looks like some kinda of toddlers drawing of a monkey dog hybrid. Such a wrong looking creature would probably taste terrible. As Ellie spots it her eyes light up in excitement and she licks her lips... Uh... Ok then... As she readies her daggers I wrap her in mist and make a cloud trail for her up to the back of the creature whilst surrounding it in mist and swiping at it's front with a claw to provide distraction. Ellie rushes up and stabs the back of it's neck from either side with her wolf canine knives before slicing into it's back a bunch of times.
Before the animal had a chance to respond it was bleeding out and had it's nervous system damage falling to the ground limply. It let out a painful howl before dying as I ate my cloud claw that was used for distraction. As I didn't get the kill I didn't see a message... Which really sucks as I wanted to know what that thing was called... Ellie grabbed the corpse by the wrists before starting to drag it back towards our camp with a adorable idiotic smile on her face. I don't understand it but whatever. I create a cloud path for her to walk on along our return journey.