"Riiiiiiiiiiib,"
Octavia's eye's flickered down at the critter, surprised somewhat by the abrupt croak but she gave a sort of half n--
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Octavia's eye twitched. She had just seen a city be destroyed by some mysterious light. She was now traveling with a group of barely acquainted strangers with a relatively crazy and possibly suicidal goal in mind. They were just confronted by a demon-thing and had a handful of their allies kidnapped. Oh! And they also just encountered an army of Nix soldiers out of old stories. And this... This.
I'm hallucinating, she thought, looking to her hands, checking for cuts and residue from the plants she was handling moments ago. She looked back at the wretched amphibian that was making it's getaway. I have to be... but...
As far as her knowledge went -which went quite far in regards to plants- she hadn't anything in her possession that induced hallucinations. To double check, Octavia closed her eyes and searched around with her hands the most likely places her scythe would have been placed. And.... It was certainly gone. No other explanation now, she had just watched a toad swallow a 6 foot, bladed pole. Her scythe.
...
What.
She raised her eyes to the thing as it hopped down the road, trying to see if it even had a bulge or anything visually out of the norm with it... It's tongue didn't even seem to fit inside it if she were to go by what just she saw. Octavia couldn't see anything. The scythe clearly wasn't inside it, so she couldn't just lob a rock at it and try to take it back- despite how much she wanted to. That said, it was either destroyed or transported elsewhere or maybe it's bigger on the inside. It might not have been a animal- not one that she knew of anyways. Was it tampered with? By another person? Or something else...? She had to go and see- she had to.
She stood up sharply and was about to proceed after it, seeing at how it wanted her to follow (or so it seemed), but she stopped suddenly, trying to decipher it's motives. If it wanted her to follow, that certainly was a good way to catch her attention. It went after her weapon though. Of all the things to target, it went after her weapon. That was probably the most surefire way to catch her attention, but definitely not the only, so Octavia was now pretty defenseless. For what reason though? Was that intentional? Did it mean well? Was it trying to separate her from the others? For what reason? Was it hostile or...?
Octavia took the bait. She didn't care too much right now, being pulled by her curiosity, and she figured that she could improvise if it was truly a trap. She had in her hand a vial of paralysis poison- a very potent one- and another in quick access in case. Worst come to worst, she could try to chuck it at someone or something and hope that the shattered glass made a wound that could sufficiently allow for the poison to enter the bloodstream. Well. If it even shattered- that was something she always wanted to try actually but never had a real 'test' subject. At the very least it could daze a person- or just piss them off. Regardless. She stalked after, staying a safe distance away and keeping a keen eye on it and her surroundings.