Snippet #2240781

Both Ryu and Fletcher were such amazing people. Adelaide was quite shocked that they had not left her behind already.

The forest was dense with trees and brush. She tried to stick close to her two companions and follow in their steps as they helped part the foliage. With Ryu's prowess in fighting and Fletcher's amazing crossbow demonstration, Adelaide felt rather useless. Even the sticks protruding from the ground scratched at her ankles as if to say that she was even weaker than them.

"Man, what I would give to have a papercraft that found people."

Adelaide looked up as Ryu extended a hand down towards her. "Uhm," she whispered tentatively, "I can..."
Her voice faded away yet again. She became frustrated that even her voice was enough to defeat her today. Instead of continuing, she drew from her back pocket the pair of yellow scissors she had taken.

Adelaide closed her eyes, trying to remember how it felt that time when she summoned the paper. She opened the scissors and felt resistance in the air. Then she began cutting and slowly the form of a simple paper sparrow emerged. Looking at the hovering piece of paper in the air, it seemed to be filled with a twitchy energy. Adelaide plucked it from its spot, rubbing it between her fingers and realizing that it was actually two. "Takashi." She said, as if to explain what she was trying to do.

Then the two sparrows were released. They flitted amongst the trees in two opposite directions, navigating through thick leaves. Adelaide stood very still as if listening intently.

A gentle tugging at the edge of her consciousness brought her attention to one of the sparrows. She could not see or hear exactly what the sparrow was seeing; it was more like how one thinks when they are skimming over a passage in a book. Some general details were formed in her mind. "Er, West, I think." Her voice went really hoarse again, and she coughed into her hand and clutched her knees. Her concentration was broken, but she could remember a bit of what she had discovered. "Water. Height, and then water."

It was a minuscule amount of information, but it was about as much as she could do. They had gained a direction, but she was completely drained from making just two of her papercraft. Adelaide leaned against a tree to keep from dizzily stumbling over her own feet.