Daily Excerpt Post: 5 November

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[hylian_shadow]

NaNoWriMo Username: JArvin
Any background information: Fantasy, but more weird than epic. Context for this is that one character has been out on a ridge alone during a thunderstorm, and he's just been discovered by a small group of wagons.

Excerpt:
The wagons stopped where the road met his outcrop. "Do you need a hand over there?"

He stood easily and turned to face them. Several people, all men, all clad in clothing that marked them as local men. That immediately put him on alert; he'd yet to receive even the slightest bit of hospitality from anyone in this gods-forsaken region.

"I appreciate the offer, but I am fine." He scowled inwardly at the small cloud of steam that accompanied his words. It didn't seem quite fair that the first people he had seen all day long would have to come by while he was venting the excess heat from a recharge. Solrisha would say the gods were having a laugh at his expense if zie were here.

A couple of the men shifted their weight in what would be a subtle move for their weapons if he wasn't so familiar with and expecting such a move. The two he guessed to be the leaders started speaking with each other in a language he didn't know, though the somewhat-cocky tones they used told him enough.

He held his hands up to show he wasn't holding anything. "I mean you no harm."

"Open that cloak, and we'll believe you!" one of them called. A couple of the others took a few steps forward onto the rock, though they didn't draw their weapons just yet.

He did so, moving carefully.

"You don't look worth a thousand steel."

Bounty hunters. He narrowed his eyes. So that irritating mage wasn't going to let him go so easily; he should've expected this. "Perhaps I'm not," he said coolly. "Are you sure you have the right man?"

"Oh, I'm sure we do. Large man with dark hair and no weapons, traveling alone, not human... Sounds like you, doesn't it?"

Skyward lowered his arms to his sides. "If you think you can capture me, you're welcome to try. I will correct you on one detail, however..." He flicked his arms outwards, extending the blades on both of his forearms. "I'm not weaponless."