The Graveyard | Afternoon | Friday | September 17

[therewaslife]

When Bod had left for the graveyard earlier that morning, he'd been expecting just to have a few hours of quiet contemplation. He hadn't expected to dodge what looked like flying fish, he hadn't expected to get his arm bitten to the point of bleeding and he certainly hadn't expected to wield a broken tree branch as a weapon.

Despite the obvious danger, he couldn't make himself leave. While the fish seemed to be coming for him, he wasn't going to leave them to destroy a graveyard. He'd seen vandalism and disrepair come to graveyards and he didn't want that to happen here. Bod was wilier than people gave him credit for and he knew this graveyard so it was easy to move from tombstone to tombstone, hiding behind the slabs of granite so he could get the advantage on the fish when they came flying overhead.

Killing them twice, that was new and annoying, but he was doing it by smacking at them with the tree branch, kicking them and stomping on them when needed. Bod really wished for a ghoul gate or an open grave right about now. Unfortunately, it was just him and his tree branch.

[Open, sure, if you're in the area.]

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[notagoodslayer.livejournal.com]

"Dude...get a sharper branch."

Faith's voice came at the same time an arrow made its way through two flying piranhas that were luckily already dead...thus making them dead-dead, if that even made sense. Faith closed the distance between her and the boy, realizing how little use she would have of a crossbow with the numbers she was facing there. "Here", said as she tossed the crossbow and a bunch of bolts -but with enough care to avoid getting Bod any more hurt, really-. "Just don't put one of me and we'll be best pals." That said, she unsheathed the sword she was carrying around; the stake would need to take a break from this one.

Wasn't she forgetting about something? "Uh...I'm Faith."

[therewaslife]

Bod shook his head at the weapon, already pushing it back towards her. "I don't want it and my branch is fine, thank you. I'm not completely inept."

He'd defended himself before with just his wits and his fists. He didn't want to deal with a foreign weapon from someone he didn't know.

[notagoodslayer.livejournal.com]

Faith raised an eyebrow. "A pacifist on a graveyard." Now she had seen it all. Or most of it all, perhaps. "Just leave the crossbow there on the ground", said as she turned around. "And check that bite; there is a clinic for that sort of things." Teacher or not, she wasn't having a student bleeding to death right next to her.

[therewaslife]

"I'm fine," he said, shaking his arm and his head. "And I'm not a pacifist. I don't know how to use your weapon so I'd rather stick to what I know. Thank you anyway."

Bod ducked another flying fish thing before standing up and swinging his tree branch at the two that were following it, knocking them pretty far back.

[notagoodslayer.livejournal.com]

"Ah, so you are more comfortable with...maces?" Not that she carried one with her, but hey, that was her poor attempt at being conversational. "Nice hit, kid. Just scream if they start surrounding you or something."

That said, she started to hack her way through the fishes, making sure to leave none zombified, neither; if she just kept moving, they were going to sneak up on her by the back. Bad idea. Faith ducked a particularly nasty piranha, stabbing it as it turned around, and threw it to the ground, where she stepped on the newly zombified fish. "One can't even make sushi with these little shits, what a waste."