Dreeca had no objections to being told to ride her Lusus, its not like she would have chosen any other method anyway!
Being motioned out first, she slipped past the indigo blood, half prancing with long light strides until she was up by her Lusus.

The heavy hoof falls of the great beast approached the others, Dreeca already securely on the large stag's back, her slim form peering down at them from where she was draped over the antlered head, just below the many pronged antlers.
"Yeaah, whenever you aare." she replied, placing her hand under her chin.
Allowing herself to slip back down to her Lusus' shoulder blades, holding tightly to the mane of fur, the antler beast sprang forward, and with a steady stride of long leaps, took off quickly in the direction of the ocean.

With a startled yelp, Hitree clung to the soft fur at the nape of the sneakbeast's neck as quickly took off after the antlerbeast. "Calm down Afirer." Icufer laughed , completely at ease behind the rust blood. Father Avian flew high above them, scoping out the area to make sure the area was safe for his charge to be traveling through. "D-Do you not have a saddle for her?!" Hitree exclaimed, becoming a bit queasy from all of the jostling around. "Of course not, don't be silly." The indigo blood snorted, resting his large hands on the others hips to steady him a bit. "It is a valid question." The smaller troll muttered, leaning forward to bury his face into the lusus' white fur so he didn't have to watch the scenery fly by at a sickening pace. "Your lusus knows where it's going right peasant?" Icufer called out as they caught up to the great antlerbeast.

"Of course!" Dreeca called back "She waas roaaming these laands long before she took me in, she won't get lost!"
The antlerbeast slid one of her eyes to catch a glance at the other Lusus following suit, slowing her prance so that they were more of less in stride with one another.
With her tiny troll clinging firmly to her shoulders, she tried not to jar the ride too much, not wanting to be caught unexpectedly by the terrine and throw her troll. Though her concern as to their destination did not please the antler beast in the least.
She knew that FLARP was one of the more popular things to do among the trolls, but why must Dreeca insist on such an aggressive pass time just because its what everyone else was doing.
The white stag feared she would not be seeing her troll grow up if she continued on like this.

"Just making sure, no need to twist your horns in a knot." Icufer said, laughing as Hitree groaned. "Don't get sick, peasant. My lusus wouldn't appreciate you throwing up in her fur." The indigo blood warned, the sneakbeast barking in agreement. "I-I am sorry." The rust blood whimpered, not resisting when the bigger troll pulled him back to recline against his chest. "Deep breaths, Afirer and keep your eyes closed." Icufer said, patting the others head affectionately in hopes of calming the obviously distraught troll's nerves. "A-Alright." Hitree muttered, clutching desperately at the others pant legs in an attempt to get a bit more balance. "I'm not going to let you fall." Icufer snorted, rolling his eyes when he caught sight of the death grip the lowblood had on his pants. "Or maybe I will." He chuckled evilly with a shrug, earning a distressed cry from the rust blood leaning against him.

A gentle frown crossed Dreeca's lips, but instead of replying she just leaned forward into her Lusus' mane some more, half hiding and got ready for a long ride. only just barely aware of the other two carrying on a banter back and forth

Every now and then she would catch a glimpse of the flutterbeast whizzing overhead, the appearance of the comfortingly small avian did not go unnoticed by her Lusus either, he helped to keep track of the height of the trees, reminding her, so that her antlers would not snag or knock low hanging brush.

As the time passed, she spent most of her attention on a small hand held communication device, her fingers sliding over its surface as she seemed to be posting, or communicating with someone other it.
Though anywhere she was posting didn't seem to be public, so just who and what she was saying wasn't up for just anyone to see. though really, it wasn't important, just something to do while they rode on instead of counting the trees that passed and listen to the two trolls talking. She was starting to think she didn't like meeting trolls in person.
Not at all.

Once they broke clear of the forested area, Hitree found that the going was much smoother and he managed to sit up. "So what sort of things do you like to do Dreeca?" He asked the distractedly troll curiously. Despite the obvious distaste she held for lowerblooded trolls, he was still going to try to befriend the quiet girl. "You p-probably noticed that I like to read." He said sheepishly and Icufer scoffed behind him. "Like is an understatement." The indigo blood said, easily dodging the hand meant to swat him in the face. "I suppose I have more of a...fascination with the knowledge that books contain." He clarified, ignoring the snickering coming from behind him. "You are a g-green blood, so you must have a few in-interesting hobbies."

The sound of her name pulled her focus out away from the device she was typing away on, the littler antlers perking up until two greening eyes caught sign of the one who was speaking to her.
she had not caught the first thing he had said to her, but while she listened to him go on about his books, and then finished up with what kind of hobbies she might like, the color of her face seemed to drain, leaving her a lighter gray then usual.

Great, hobbies, she had to think of something quick for this one. No way she was going to tell anyone about what she did in her spare time, she didn't even like to admit it to herself! It was more like a bad habit she was trying to quit then anything.
"Uh, you know, the usuaal stuff..." She started letting a moment pass before she continued "Nothing too interesting."
While those who lacked any kind of passion would most certainly give this answer, and would speak in a way that would imply they had a very definite lack of substance to their being, in the case of this troll however, it seemed more like she was scared of something, enough so that she was trying to simply bypass the subject all together.
"Aanywaay, thaats aa dumb topic. Whaat aabout your needles, you reaally poison them?" she said, changing the subject.

Hitree seemed surprised by Dreeca's lack of enthusiasm about her interests, but he didn't comment. Icufer on the other hand, could sense that the antler horned troll was hiding something...something that he planned to find out! "O-Oh...yes." The rustblood stuttered. "I use the sap of of the Azalea plant, which my lusus brings to me since flutterbeasts are immune to it, and wearing gloves of course I dip my needles into the jar that contains the liquid." He explained, motioning vaguely with his hands. "Have you ever accidentally stuck yourself with one?" Icufer asked curiously. "When I first starting using the poison....yes. But I keep a lot of the antidote on my person and around my hive just in case, Father Avian generally is the one to administer it." He winced remembering all the times the flutterbeast's thick beak had plucked at his skin to get him the antidote in time. "Ouch." The indigo blood muttered, shuddering at the thought of the needles going anywhere near his skin. He admitted it, just to himself of course, he was terrified of needles. "How did you c-come to use your weapon, D-Dreeca?"

She payed attention quietly as he explained about his weapon, her eyebrows slowly drifting up a little more though she had to literally bite her tongue to keep from asking questions about what kind of antidotes he used, as well as being both impressed and intrigued as to how the lusus was able to inject them into the patient. It was rather brilliant.
"caan't waait to see thaat kind of weaapon in aaction." She muttered.

at the next question the tilted her head "Uh, well, I guess its becaause its whaat I'm most comfertaable with. they just feel good in my haands, aand it maakes more sense to me, better flowing then aany of the other weaapons i tried"

"I-It is not all that exciting." Hitree said modestly, flushing at the others enthusiasm. "I just t-throw them." He muttered, yelping when Icufer jostled his shoulders. "The fact that you can throw that far is impressive, Afirer." The indigo blood praised before yawning. "I'm partial to my crossbow, it's powerful, silent, and allows me to stay hidden." He chuckled, "I prefer to stay in the shadows while hunting." He said, sending a shiver up the smaller male's spine. "That...is a bit creepy." The rust blood said slowly, glancing at the other from over his shoulder. "Are you sure you do not h-have something of interest that you like to do?" He asked the green blood again.

Dreeca's eyes widened a little as well at the comment from Icufer, agreeing silently with Hitree on his statement of the indigo blood's explanations being creepy.
"Aa bit..." She agreed.
When the topic was turned back onto her, bringing up once again her interests, the female troll suddenly sat up sharply on her Lulus' back, her dreadlocks tossing back as she all but brandished her horns in a gesture of defiance and clear annoyance.
"I already told you I don't!" she snapped pointedly her face flushing green, her now cold eyes on him. "What do you think i'm lying? Why are you pushing it rust blood?"
she kept her taller posture, not looking away from him "That's not an interesting topic, lets talk about something else."

She realized right away that in her flustered surprise she might have reacted a little more harshly then she should have, but as an after thought maybe this would keep the lower blood off of her back about it.

Hitree flinched in surprise and fear of the green blood's response to such an innocent question. "I-I...I-I, n-no of c-course no-not." The rust blood squeaked, shrinking back against Icufer's chest as if to hide. "Calm the fuck down, peasant." Icufer growled, grey eyes snapping over to the female troll with a glare so heated it was a surprise nothing caught fire. "Just because you're too motherfucking embarrassed of your hobbies doesn't mean you need to snap at him for being fucking curious." He hissed, bearing his sharp teeth threateningly. The rust blood flailed his arms a bit, searching desperately for something to defuse the situation. "I-I should no-not have p-pried." He said shakily, though he couldn't help but be flattered that the taller male was standing up for him. Icufer rolled his eyes, all traces of his semi-pleasant mood gone as he crossed his arms over his chest and subsequently locking Hitree against his chest. The brooding male ignored the others squirming and near silent protests in favor of glaring up at the sky. "A-Another subject, p-perhaps would b-be a good thing?" The meek troll suggested. "W-Would you like t-to share one o-of your...r-recent mysteries, I-Icufer?" He asked hopefully, but the other simply grunted and continued to stare up at the sky.

Dreeca stiffened against the retort from the indigo blood, his anger immediately kicking in her flight fear reflex, and making her regret snapping at the the low blood. of course those two had some kind of relationship, and it was becoming more and more clear that it was probably closer then she had initially assumed.
In a following reflex she hissed back in defense, feel pulling away from her own row of pointed fangs and elongated canines, leaning down closer to the back of the antler beast.
"I'm not embarrassed." she retorted practically forcing the words from her mouth.

Her lips closed, giving the two trolls a long annoyed frown before she shoved her hands forward into her Lusus' shoulders, prompting the large antler beast to lengthen her leaps once again.
"I'm here to win, not make small talk!" Dreeca snapped before she pulled out ahead of them and out of their hearing range.

At the female's obvious hostility and snappy comments, Icufer felt his control slipping away from him. "Fucking peasant." He hissed under his breath as he watched the green blood gain distance in front of them. "I-Icufer..." Hitree wheezed, tapping weakly against the restraining arms that were tightening around him to the point that it was becoming difficult to breathe. It took a moment, but the arms loosened and the rust blood let out a shaky breath as the indigo blood blinked owlishly down at him. "Sorry about that, Afirer." He apologized sincerely, a small frown on his face as he watched maroon bruises begin to form on the lowblood's arms where he'd been pinned down. "I-It is alright, Icufer. You just..." The smaller male paused, shifting uncomfortably against the other. "G-Got a little upset." He finished quietly, turning his attention to the trees passing in a blur. He knew the bigger troll hadn't meant to hurt him, was protecting him from Dreeca's sharp words but...he couldn't deny that the other troll was quite terrifying when he got angry. "That peasant really needs to get the stick out of her ass." The indigo blood muttered as his hands came to rest on the lowblood's waist. "P-Perhaps she just is not a-accustomed to conversing with oth-others in person." Hitree said thoughtfully before they lapsed into silence, both of them watching the scenery change from forested to grassy plains that would soon give way to the ocean.

Glaring down at the white fur clutched between her gray fingers, teeth biting down hard into each other without giving even the faintest concern with what the scenery looked like around her, not until the stride of her Lusus changed abruptly.
eyelids fluttering in alarm, her head raising to quickly try and get a handle of where they were, and why her Lusus had to adjust her footing.
Sand, and beyond that ocean, as far as the eye could see seeming to stretch on forever, and then some. It was truly an unnerving sight, especially considering that is was what the water below held that was the most truly terrifying part.

With the antler beast slowing to a canter, she stopped only when she reached the edge of the tide, hooves inches away from the sweeping waves. Dreeca pushed herself up, climbing up so that her hands were supporting her weight in between the root of the Luses' antlers.
Large white ears fanned forward, Dreeca could hear the heavy breath snorting from the bests nostrils, chasing away the tingling scent that the sea gave off.
"... Wow."

"...And did you know that despite the salty smell that the water gives off, our ocean does not contain any salt other that what the various creatures give off?" Hitree prattled on as the sneakbeast came to a smooth stop beside the antlerbeast and her ward. "I was unaware." Icufer said, tone vaguely bored as he slid from his lusus' back to stretch. "I have read online that the salty smell is supposed to lure trolls to the water so the more aggressive creatures could eat them." The rust blood said, glancing down at the water with an apprehensive expression on his face. "That is just an old wise tale though, I am not one hundred percent certain how much of it is true." The smaller male landed on his butt with a soft 'oomph' as he slid off Icufer's lusus, causing the indigo blood to laugh. "Sounds believable to me." Icufer said with a shrug, though he made a mental note to investigate that theory at a later date. "We need to acquire a boat." The taller troll stated, glancing down the shoreline with a slightly furrowed brow. "I was under the assumptions that all highbloods had a boat of sorts." Hitree piped up as he dusted off the back of shorts and shirt. "Yes well what good would a boat do me in the middle of the forest, hm?" Grey eyes slid over to the shorter male to give him an amused look before he started down towards the shore. "...I suppose that is true." The rust blood muttered thoughtfully as he followed after. "Don't get too close to the water, I've heard that the seadwellers can smell when lowbloods come too close." Icufer cackled, causing Hitree to pause, the color draining from his face before he scurried to hurry up to the indigo blood.

Dreeca's attention was only torn away from the ocean when the talking of the other two trolls dragged her glance away. the smaller troll watched the two for a couple of seconds until they moved off to find a boat.
It was then that she took the opportunity to dismount herself, using the antler prongs as leverage so that she could lower herself down onto the sand, with held from her care taker.
She wondered if the rumors Hitree had mentioned were true, she wouldn't be surprised, the ocean was a haunting but beautiful distraction she could imagine how easily it would be to be lost in it.

cupping her elbows into the palm of her hands, the female shifted backwards a couple of steps, before meandering after the other two, glancing around to where they might find a boat... just laying around?

Whistling cheerfully, Icufer led the way along the shoreline. "There." He said suddenly, pointing to what appeared to be a station for a ferry. "We'll take the ferry across so our lusus can come along as well." Hitree let out a sigh of relief as his lusus fluttered restlessly above his head. He was always anxious when his lusus wasn't able to follow him and keep an eye out for him, though he couldn't help but want to send Father Avian home where it would be safe. He knew the flutterbeast wouldn't listen though, not when they were about to go on a rather dangerous expedition. "Yeah, yeah, you can come." Icufer groused, swatting at his lusus as she tried to nuzzle his face affectionately. "Stop that." He laughed, pushing her away by her muzzle before starting off towards the docks again. "Come on then, we don't have all day!" He called over his shoulder. "Well actually, we have an entire week to meet with all of our team members and come up with a plan." The rust blood stated as he followed along. He'd hate to get left behind so close to the water.

The sight of the boat confirmed their trip over the ocean, she couldn't figure out how she felt about it yet, excited, and scared all at the same time.
She wasn't sure how she felt about her Lusus coming along, she knew that her Lusus was against this whole thing to behind with, and the land bound creature was not going to be at all stable, or even much help on the ocean.
Dreeca would have been willing to leave the large hooved creature behind on the shore, but it was obvious by how closely the beast was following her young troll, that she had no intentions on leaving her with the other two and their Lusus, not with as much attitude as she's been showing, rather uncharacteristically.

Dropping her arms to her side, Dreeca lengthened her stride in order to make it to the ferry in a timely matter after the other two, reminding her self over and over again why she was doing this, and trying not to think, with dread that they were on their way to meet yet another troll... another high blood troll, in person.

The Indigo blood stepped out of her Hive with very eager feet. She understood why she was filled with glee, but yet at the same time, she tried to deny that reason. Her reason was that she got to show off to all the Trolls of how amazing she was for a Future Subjuggulator. The real reason though was because she was actually going to interact with real Trolls, without eventually killing them, or maybe killing them. She never knew when she'd have to kill someone so she didn't push that from her Think-pan. The other reason though, was because she'd finally be able to get off of her Island.

She had never been to land. She never interacted with Trolls, she only found the washed up dying Trolls that escaped from the Sea-Dwellers or sea creatures of the black waters. Even then she just practiced her Chucklevoodoo's on them til they eventually died. She didn't see any harm in it. It was Natural for Highbloods to kill Lowbloods, especially when they were dumb enough to go near the water. Any self-respecting Troll knew that the Ocean was only a Lure for stupid Trolls to get eaten by the monsters that inhabited it's murky waves. Also for the Sea-Dwellers to drown unsuspecting Land-Dwellers.

Even as stupid as the Purple blood found the washed up Trolls to be, she couldn't help but admire them a little for being able to get away from whatever caught them, but only a little. Especially Sea-Dwellers. The young Troll shivered at the thought of Sea-Dwellers, not because she was afraid of them, but because they were just hideous and disgusting. She didn't know why the Mirthful Messiah's allowed their existence, let alone be Royalty to Alternia.

She believed the Hemospectrum should have ended with Purple bloods. It made sense to her this way seeing as how Purple Bloods were the only Trolls who worshiped them. This only made her thoughts about the Mirthful Messiah's, point to complete shit. She never really believed in them, but she 'worshiped' them because she enjoyed her powers of the Chucklevoodoo. It was said only true followers were granted these powers to show their Dominance over the Land-Dwellers. She had many conflicting thoughts about her beliefs. If she did not believe in her religion, then why did she have Chucklevoodoos? And if she didn't believe in the teaching's, then why did she believe in such a juvenile tale that the Mirthful Messiah's granted their followers this power? She came up with the conclusion that she just was unsure of what she believed in. The Indigo blood only hoped to one day kill a Sea-Dweller with her Chucklevoodoo's. Of course she would never tell anyone of this fantasy, for that was a crime. She would do it one day where no one was around, her Island would work perfectly, no one else lived here. Then she would finally find out if Chucklevoodoo's worked on Trolls higher than Indigo bloods.

The Purple Blood Snickered at her fantasy. She only found it disappointing that she had never met a Sea-Dweller yet. It was ridiculous because she lived on an Island, surround by water might she add.

The moon shone on the water Beautifully. The young Troll thought about the FLARPing session once again and remembered why she was so giddy. She was hardly like this, she never had a reason to be happy. Being trapped on an Island with the Internet as her only source of communication, did not even suffice to meeting Trolls in real life. Her FLARPing team should be leaving for her Hive tonight. She began to worry as she remembered she had no interacting skills what-so-ever, and didn't know how to handle having guests. She decided to go consult her Lusus on the matter, even though the great Serpent was against this whole plan from the beginning.