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Kaya seemed a little disappointed as her gesture was ignored, but spun on her heel. "Over here," she said on her quiet voice, but she froze in front of the taller girls as she saw the deer had risen. Wow, it had gotten out of its trap already? It stood there, breath bellowing out, rippling across its fur. It snorted, shaking its head, its mighty horns.

Sarah got a little nervous when she noticed it had stood up and looked like it was a little unhappy. "Umm.. Kaya? Whatever you did last time to get the deer on the ground seems to have worn off." she said anxiously. "And it looks like he's a little upset."

Minnie froze when she saw that the deer had stood up. This was not what she had signed up for. Its antlers were pulling her focus. A video she remembered seeing from her family's trip to Yellowstone of a buffalo throwing a person up in a tree came to mind, and she desperately wanted to turn tail and run, but she knew that was the opposite of what she ought to do. Almost comically, she gulped, slowly removing her hands from her pockets and taking a few tiny steps backwards. She refused to die tonight.

Kaya kept a firm mouth, and raised her hand slightly, aiming it at the ground in front of them. She seemed to throw three small lights, red lights, like the laser pointers used on cats. The stuck to the ground as ovular pulsings, warm glows going in and out of existence. The deer watched this. Then, as if it knew what they were, or what was going on, it made another kick at the dirt and turned, snorting as if with annoyance. With this, it left.

The girl's shoulders seemed to loosen. "That is unfortunate...," she whispered, rubbing one shoulder and than the other, sending a temporary warmth through her. She looked behind her, twisting her neck slightly rather than turning her body."I apologize, stranger."

Sarah watched as Kaya tried unsuccessfully to retrap the deer. "Well, at least it didn't attack us." she said. She breathed a sigh of relief because she was a little afraid of being charged at, but at least it ran away because of the initiate's glorified light show.

"That was your fault?" Minnie's voice had pitched up higher than usual, and she cleared her throat to return it to normal. Moving her hair out of her face nervously, she added, "I guess it's fortunate that it didn't attack us." Somebody would have heard about it.

"Where I come from, not securing the animal will give you many chastations." She smiled while she did this, but it was less whimsical, despite the light way she walked, slowly stepping one foot in front of the other. She rubbed her arm again. "Let's retire inward. Inside, let's go." It seemed that the icy breeze had permeated even her skin. She had had her taste of the forest. Fatigue was growing on her, and the pits of the leaves around them echoed with crickets and the shadowed unknown.

Sarah nodded in agreement. "Yes. Let's. I'm freezing." she replied.

The two girls were already walking away, but Minnie stood her ground, still baffled about what had happened. The strange girl had been the one to trap the deer and Minnie wanted to know more about it. Only when they were several feet away did she race after them.

"So you two know each other already?" she asked.

"Yes." Kaya had her eyes fastened on something in the trees, who revealed itself with a sudden fluttering as a small nightingale. "Jug jug jug," she cooed, and at its ambivalence, repeated herself. "Yes, correct. Sarah helped me when I arrived. I am grateful to her." A fallen tree trunk offered a perfect obstacle to climb all over, and she diverted her attention once more to scale the path on top of it. Her arms were outstretched as she carefully went over its surface.

"Yup. I was there when she first arrived." she said, shivering slightly. She watched as Kaya walked across the log and it reminded her of little kids she used to see back in her hometown.

The first girl seemed to have a very different pattern of speech that Minnie wasn't used to and the second girl only repeated what the first girl had said. She was starting to get irritated that she had bothered coming outside at all. Between staying inside bored and going outside and meeting these odd students, she would rather have stayed inside.

Minnie let out a breath in a cloud of air.
"So are you guys friends now?"

Kaya was about to answer, when there was a rhythm behind her, and the ecstatic girl turned as she jumped from the log. The nightingale was singing rhythmically. Twit twit twiddley twit. The girl replied, "Tereu!" It didn't stop for her, but she seemed satisfied. She didn't however, remember the question, and went about finding things to divert herself. The light of the campus' main grounds shown close.

"I guess you could say we were friends." she said, giggling at Kaya's current behavior.

A shiver ran down Minnie's spine. This was utterly childish. She did not want to be out in the cold for much longer than she had to be.
"Look, I'm sure you two are really nice and all, but it's freezing and want to go to bed," she said, trying to keep the edge out of her voice. This was not how she expected this walk to go.