Who's crazier? The fool or fool that listens...

Kotori was working on making another snare.  He had botched the last one he tried to make earlier in the day.  Did earlier or later even count as a term now?  The sky had light to it but only from bugs, fungi, and the moon reflecting on the water.  Add to that Kotori had two fires set on either side of him with about a 10ft diameter.  Within his ring of fire, the darkness was kept at bay more than enough to diminish Kotori’s strange fear of the darkness.

It wasn’t that making a snare should be difficult but Kotori’s focus was a slippery thing and patience was in limited supply as well.  Trying to knot the one yesterday he had instead thrown the braided rope into the water when it was taking too long.  Near one of the fires slept his companions, a white tiger and a mongoose that seemed to be glowing blue about his body!

This new snare was about halfway completed and he was already pissed at it.  Chasing prey was more satisfying anyway but when he’d tried chasing something last he had heard voices in the darkness, words that he couldn’t quite make out nor pinpoint the location of where they came from.  At least if he had known what they were saying he could choose to ignore words but not knowing what they were saying had driven him half crazy.  Oddly they had stopped when he gave up and so for now it was building snares.

"Kotori Fatalis"