Faizure watched as Hollow aggressively cuts up the rabbit he caught earlier. "Hey, are you alright?" He asks, taking a break from leveling his stat points from the fish he caught earlier. Naut listens in as he washes his hands in a nearby stream, the water swooshing lightly. A crawdad crawled across a rock, crawling into the water. "I'm. Super. Fine." Hollow states plainly, throwing the hide roughly back into the woods. Faizure frowns and reaches for his friends hand. Pulling away, Hollow goes back to work, skewering the best parts of the meat on a stick. Birds call around them, their whistles u soothing to Hollow compared to other times. Standing, Naut heads over to the two, throwing his arm over Hollows shoulder. "Calm down." Naut says, whispering to him, watching Faizure in the corner of his eye, making sure he went unheard. Hollow shrugs him off, then grins widely, his cheeks pushing his mask up half an inch. He had an idea. A quite sick one, at that. Revenge was on his mind. "Hey, Naut. I need your help with getting more sticks!" Hollow says, faking enthusiasm, making sure that Faizure overheard them. Nauts smile drops and he glares at the boy out of the corner of his eye. Faizure looks between the two, glad that Hollows trying to bond with Naut. His black and white hair swish lightly in the wind. "Come on." Hollow says, dragging him with him into the woods. Faizure watches them until they disappear in the woody kingdome. Smiling, he goes back to work, going in the opposite direction to collect sticks as well. Then he'll finish starting a fire so Hollow can cook the rabbit.
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Finished with the fire and happy with his pile of sticks, he stretches, his arms burning from overworking. Leaning against a tree, his eyes softly flutter shut, taking him into a light sleep. But not for long. A long scream rips him out of tired state, scrabbling back onto his feet. It came from his friends direction. Taking off into a sprint, he winces as vines and branches whip and nip at him along the way. Finally spotting them, he runs to help Hollow. Naut is slinged over his shoulder, bruised and beat. "What happened?" Faizure asks, getting Nauts other side. "He fell down this big drop off. I had to go down and retrieve him. Luckily, no bones are broken." Hollow says, slanting his eyes at Naut as he weakly looks up at him. A curse slips past his lips, far too quite for anyone to actually hear. They take him to camp, laying him on his pallete gently. It was going to be a long night.