Neverwinter Forest [ic joining] pilfer and plunder

@Chakra I howl at the wind.

The red woman's creased face and utter revulsion towards young Bayou, made the child want to retract. To coil in to herself the way a spider folds in to a ball when smacked aside.

Most of all, she wanted to spit in the woman's face. Perhaps attempt to overpower her (if she got close enough); then she would be free to pilfer from any cache the stern woman may be protecting.

Bayou held herself in check. Her hostility was restrained. She let out a keen whine which pierced the forest's walls and retreated in to the soil in earnest, dragging her muddied chest through the twigs, ready to expose her tender belly if need be -- but the woman, taking her act as truth, finally gave in.

"Oh, oui, oui, this is very kind indeed!" The spider praised while exposing her teeth in a dull yellow grin. The girl got to her feet. Her haunch trembled as she stood there, with her belly lifted from the earth by those narrow limbs.

With her bright eyes staring at the woman's shadow-obscured paws, she gave a short sweeping bow and, thinking quickly, uttered, "Kòbo -- I am Kòbo," A twitch of the eye could betray her, so they remained steady upon the defensive woman's bare limbs.