Building a place to call home. (14/01/2010)

[Ghora]

Ghorana tripped on a partly hidden root in the ochre earth, and swore ash she stumbled. She looked, pushed her thin grey hair out of her eyes. The summit wasn't far off. She glanced at her talbuk, tutting.

"Useless goat. I bet you're enjoying yourself, aren't ya, watching me toil up this earth-damned slope."

The young male, son of a proud lineage of Talbuks, looked at her for a moment, chewing on a root, then bayed as if he was laughing, and nuzzled her wrinkled hand. They struggled up the mountain, reaching the peak a few minutes later. There is was. The clearing with the little lake and the scraggly grass, hidden away from prying eyes. Quiet, peaceful and primal.
Exactly what she needed. She petted her mount on the neck, smiling tiredly.

"This will do fine, ye old goat. Now all I need is some young pups to help me carry the canvas and the timber up here."

Breathing deeply, she turned away and whistled out a long clear note into the setting sun. Eddies of wind picked up around her, whipping her hair and robes around. They strengthened, and soon the spirits of wind were gently carrying her down the mountainside. She looked back at her talbuk, who was baying nervously and pawing the edge of the ridge.

"Heh. Sorry. If you'd carried me up instead o' whining, I might've had the strength to get both of us down. I'll be in the village a couple miles south!"

Her cackling accompanied the sun over the horizon.



=== OOC ===


Ghorana has a found the ideal place in Stonetalon to build her hut, but now she needs strong orcs to carry up the building materials to the clearing. Simple event, meet up in the evening at the Crossroads. From there, we depart! Two or three orcs and their steeds will do nicely.

The hut itself is actually in-game all ready, all secluded and such. But we'll pretend we're building it.

19h00 (server time), Crossroads, Barrens.