Search For The Strange Stranger

   Kar and curl took Pradai to the place where they had their "meetings" . They didn't want to let anyone or better still everyone know about this strange stranger. Although she had proved to be harmless to get them, they thought they needed to know more about her before anyone else. But how would they? When they couldn't even understand each other. So that posed a great challenge for them. 

   The weather, and temperature, were all weird to Pradai, but she was happy nonetheless that there was atleast day and night. 

They kept her in their meeting place which was a hidden and underground cave only known to them. They would come to see her when they are sure they won't be looked for, however, their underground cave wasn't far from the village , but no one will ever get to find out. 

  It was a beautiful morning, and the young Meivs were there watching over Pradai, as she opened her eyes, she saw Kar and Curl staring at her, just like the first time, and although she had seen that face and eyes before, she was still shocked. 

"Do you think she can't talk? Or she just doesn't want to talk?" Curl asked Kar, who was busy thinking… nothing important, obviously. 

"Hey… how was your sleep? Slept well?" Kar asked Pradai, she slowly sat right, and shrugged. 

"What does that mean?" Curl whispered to Kar. 

"I don't know?" 

"She gets more and more strange" 

"Yes"

"What do we do with her?" 

"What do you think?" Kar asked Curl 

"Curl knows not" 

"You are good for nothing"

"Say no more. Say no more, I won't bring you fresh meat anymore. We will see who can't live without eating meat!"

"I can hunt!" 

"Oh, can you?"

"I mean, forget it. Don't stop bringing me fresh meat, okay" 

   Kar gave Curl a pat on the back. If there was one good thing he gained from Curl, is fresh meat. Curl's father is a great hunter, and they always have fresh meat. Curl hunts too. But the Tribists don't hunt, because they believed they are too great and high to hunt for animals.

   They rather hunt beasts and enemies who pose a great threat to their people. But Kar loved meat so he had Curl smuggle portions for him from time to time. 

  As they finished talking to each other, they faced front to see that the place where Pradai was sitting down, was empty. They looked at each other and exhaled... They did it again. 

"Uhhh not again" groaned Kar.

"That thing doesn't stay in one place!" 

"Maybe we should break it's legs" suggested Curl. 

"Ummm, are we going to continue talking to ourselves?"

   They got out of the cave, and there was no sign of Pradai, so Curl bend down and sniffs the grasses… but there was something about it. He couldn't sniff anything out!

"What!, It didn't leave any trace" 

"Huh?, You can't be serious"

  Kar tried his own tricks. He closed his eyes, slowed down time and the beating of his heart, and listened… his ears flappped, he opened his eyes which already had turned blue, just like that of the wolf. But still, nothing. 

He couldn't believe it, he staggered backwards and looked at Curl, who only shaked his head. 

"How is this possible?, Why can't … What's happening to me? Am I losing my powers or what"

"I was going to ask the same question… The Cruk's heart Kar!, What if this is the cause of all this?"

"It can't be. It doesn't have anything to do with this. If it does, I will know." 

"That thing might not be harmful to us, but…"

"It could be dangerous to everyone" Kar cuts in

"Errrm not exactly what I was going to say, but…"

"We need to find her" added Kar, again. 

"Oh come on! Will you just let me finish talking!"

   They went after her, after all, there was no way she would go far, besides, she doesn't know where to go. It became a mission at that moment,to find Pradai. 

   Kar and Curl had already walked many miles, and searched for quite a long time and were seriously getting tired, humping like dreaded soldiers on foot, and yet humphing that, that thing wasn't real, but just a taunting illusion. After walking some miles later, they decided to take a break. 

"How?"

"I was gonna ask you the same question. How?" Curl added

"I can't continue, I'm tired" 

"Oh are you?" Curl said, twisting up his eyebrows…

"Right?"

"Yes! Let's give this thing a chase, we have been wasting our time all these while, threading like turtles." 

Kar smiled, they both stood up… 

   The meivs although different clans, had many things in common, or better say, have everything in common, except their unique powers known for each clan. But there was Kar and Curl, ready to search for the strange stranger.

   As they stood, their feet widened a bit with flaps, and they had six toes, and six fingers, which allowed them to run as fast as fast animals, and climb so well and fast, as arboreal animals. Both their finger and toe nails stretched out, very sharp and strong they could climb huge trees depending on it alone. 

They could hear and sense more, but still it wasn't helpful. 

"Ready?" 

"Always" said Kar, as they both took off swiftly, leaving deep prints on the ground and bringing waves around them as they ran. They looked around as they ran, but still nothing, after a while of almost running through the grasslands, they decided to take another route. 

The young meivs panting and sweating profusely took up the trees, each one dominating a specific area.

"If I find that thing, I will make it pay for my unfortunate days" snarled Kar climbing and running through trees. 

   Curl on the other hand wasn't complaining but the biac was hungry so he climbed with ease, needing no stress. He had just finished a part of his dominating area when he found a tall big tree, and he decided to check it out

"Aha, gotcha" he started climbing and birds flapped away from the top. 

"I got no time" he said, as he added pressure, but it was really a tall tree for a meiv. And as he reached out to a branch on the corner to rest, he moved up his face to see a tree grohd , a very ugly and poisonous bird that stays on trees.

"Oh no" Curl exclaimed as he let his hands slip off, there he was falling from a tree that took him a great deal of time to climb, and still, it was as if time had slowed down, to make it very terrible for him, he kept on screaming, but it was like he alone can hear himself.

   Luckily for Curl, Kar came through for him, because he was a Tribist, he could hear from afar and he could run in lightspeed only for serious matters, although Curl's wasn't as serious, he can't let his best buddy suffer on his watch. So before Curl could reach the ground, he was already hanging on Kar's arms, like a baby…

"What are you doing? Are you okay?" Asked Kar anxiously, before Curl could talk, he let him out of his arms and he thuds on the ground. 

"What! What did you do that for?" groaned Curl. 

"Why are you in my arms like a baby"

Curl hissed and shaked his head. 

"You know what, I'm done. I'm going home"

"Me too" 

And as Kar dropped down on the ground too, something happened… it was as if they were hypnotized and it was just lifted off their heads

"What in the name of the spirits is this" said Kar fearfully, yet surprised and confused. Curl just couldn't talk. Time had just ran down to night just this moment? They thought. 

   It only took them a glance at the cave entrance, and then Pradai who was weakly and feably freezing in the cold night, and worst, she had'nt eaten all day. 

   They both looked down and saw their legs were dipped in a magic murd, a silky muddy magic solution basically used to force hallucinations and hypnotize victims. They looked at each other eyes wide opened… funny enough, they made the trap. 

"Did we just…"

"Fell in our own trap" Kar said. They have been there all the while, everything that happened wasn't real. Pradai lay there shivering, and they really felt sorry for her.

"Poor thing. didn't deserve any of these" said Curl gathering woods to make fire inside the cave, as Kar carried her inside covering her body with large warm leaves. 

"So what are we going to do now?" Curl asked Kar. 

"We will do exactly what we need to do." Kar said retreating to his sleeping corner.