Echoes Beneath The Stone

Bansho had at least scoured a good part of the winter lands by now, but indeed it appeared to be as dead as it could get. No waterfall, no hot springs, no nothing. Indeed a big disappointment, but well, perhaps he could find something else if he ventured a little further, so the monkey chose to at least try and see if he could find anything worth of his time here. Thus, the monkey tip toed through the snow, weaving one foot after the other, just quietly taking a look around. Ice formations, snow, rocks, even more snow. He yawned, quite uncaringly so. Before eventually he witnessed some silhouettes in the nearby distance.

"Hmmmm. Oooh."

Of course his eye soon realized that they were mostly remains, even if most of them appeared to be there, rather they were just put there on display. He blinked a bit, before he laughed it off apparently without a care in the world.

"Haaahayhaya, silly yaoguai..."

He said to himself, before apparently, completely unchanged from the sight, he moved off. The notion of some bloodthirsty monster was not in his interests at all, and even if there was, either he would fend it off or leave the place, he did not came hunting after all. Rather he was searching for something, if he could find that would have been swell, otherwise perhaps his query was not here to begin with, but where else could he find such lands of snow?

He hummed to himself, his eyes scanned the area shortly before moving on further north in the hopes to find what he sought.

WC: 269
Total WC: 707

The monkey hummed slightly when his feet just continued moving past the corpses. Dead bodies were not really new to him, uncertainly how so given he had never seen dead people to his memory, but it felt like he had experienced the feeling of death before. Human and beast alike, was there truly a reason for his own comfort? Well, perhaps. Unknowingly to the beast perhaps, the primal was perfectly capable when it came to energy perception so he could tell what was around him and given anything else besides him was dead, the other thing could only be the guy leaving them decorations.

"Hmmm!"

But other than that, the energy itself was indeed larger than his own. If it could get any larger it would become a problem, but in that case the guy knew how to make an escape, he had a mission; so he did not care to prove much before he could retrieve the object of his desire. If it was even here. So long as he was just gonna watch, he did not care so much! Otherwise he would just make his best to keep him at bay until he could leave or was forced to, that was basically his plan and the reason why he was mostly calm.

That and he was probably insane to some degree.

Then all of a sudden his senses would pick up on something and the breeze of air picked up like crazy, more like a tornado wind, before he found himself with the 'hunter' in this scenario, where he just stared at him still, seemingly without a reaction? Indeed as if time had stopped, before eventually the monkey man did- nothing, he fell? On his back to precise, yet immobilized, frozen almost without moving a limb.

Could it be that he had truly succumbed to the fear or... was it something else?

WC: 314
Total WC: 1021