Slender, pale fingers traced the complicated inscriptions on the page, another hand furiously scribbling down notes on a blank scroll. The quill abruptly froze, Tati biting down hard on her lip, fingers frozen on the text. She'd hit a rut. Again.
The young woman frowned, studying the book that lay in her lap. She'd found it among her many books, gathering dust in the back of her caravan. Curious, Tati had opened it up to find...well, it may well have been chicken scratch. There were no words that made any sense, only pages and pages of complicated codings and scriptures. The book had no title, the brown, worn leather binding it completely empty. It was rather frustrating, to find an unfamiliar book in her belongings with utterly confusing text. She'd been trying to decipher it all morning, sitting against a large oak with sunlight dappling her work.
Tati ground her teeth together, abruptly throwing the book to the side. "This is useless." she muttered, shaking her head. However, she was cut off from her thoughts by a wet, sand paper tongue on her cheek.
She turned to be met by the sympathetic face of her tabby cat, Wattson. Sighing, Tati pulled the cat into her lap, stroking his neck. "This is the oddest book I've ever seen, Wattson." she murmured absently, looking up into the leafy canopy above.
Tati stood, Wattson leaping off and landing softly on the ground. She began to make her way to the beat up caravan in which she made her home, on which the gelding, Dancer, her father had given her was still hitched to.
She was stopped, however, by a series of yells and growls from afar. Tati froze, whirling around on her heel. She proceeded to go through a series of debates in her head, all the while twirling a strand of her orange tresses anxiously around her finger.
/Why would I go? It doesn't involve me. Probably just some rowdy people.../ she reasoned, though her logic was quickly fought back. /Someone could be in danger! What if there's a fight? Though what could I really do?.../
Finally deciding, Tati hastily unhitched Dancer, all but throwing on his saddle and bridle. Leaping on, she clucked softly, pushing the horse into a charging canter. She weaved skillfully through the trees, bent low against the horse's neck.
/I'll just see what's happening./ she thought determinedly, and soon the noises were very loud. Tati silently dismounted, leading her steed onwards. She peered through the ferns, and gasped.
It seemed like...some sort of fight. There was a halfling and a human male, she believed, though she couldn't see his ears. Along with them were what she recognized to be a family of bugbears, snarling angrily.
She muttered something under her breath, and proceeded to...disappear? Yes, Tati's being slowly began to fade, until it seemed that there was nothing holding Dancer in check. Invisibility was one of the few spells she had mastered, and she used it now, creeping closer.