Heroine

Ruga had all but given up on the idea of hunting here and was about to call this trip into Boreas a wash when he rounded a stand of trees and a woman coated in swatches of gray with striking ice blue markings around her eyes came into view. He blinked with surprise, apparently too off in his own world to have noticed her until they were practically right beside each other. She was pretty significantly smaller than himself, but quite beautiful and far more suited for this kind of climate than himself. It looked as if she could have been made to be camouflaged in the wintery forest with hints of blue that almost looked like ice. He offered her a charming smile as she apologized and he gave her a small shake of his head. "Not to worry. I haven't been all that successful myself so I hope you'll have better luck than me." He never claimed himself to be a very skilled hunter anyway, just enough to feed himself well enough and get the materials he needed for his projects.

He cast a curious glance toward the blue eyed woman, shifting the heavy pack he was carrying into a slightly more comfortable position. "If you're a hunter, perhaps we can help each other? I'm not the best hunter around, but I can follow directions well enough. You can keep the meat - I'm more interested in the hide." He had enough of a store of dried meats and the like to hold him over to a while still, but he was woefully ill supplied when it came to unused leathers.

"Rûga Amanto"