⸢Cʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ Oɴᴇ: Sᴍᴏᴋᴇ Sɪɢɴᴀʟs⸥ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀┄ ᴏᴘᴇɴ sᴛᴀʀᴛᴇʀ ғᴏʀ ʟᴏʜᴋ ᴠᴇʀsᴇ ┄⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Kᴇɪʀᴀ Lᴏᴄᴋᴇ

A hazy cloud of reddish smoke rose into the sky and beneath it sat an exhausted and dehydrated young woman. Keira remained hunched over, —

— slightly rocking back and forth as she waited for someone, anyone, to find her. Her once luxurious blonde hair was now a stringy mop —

— atop her head. She was dirty, almost unrecognizably so - but that was expected of someone who had to crawl through a hole to save —

— themselves. Not only was this female grimy and fatigued, she was also injured. Three festering gashes stretched across her upper arm, —

— obviously from an animal attack. Keira couldn’t say for certain which type of creature had maimed her, but she had her suspicions. It —

— was in the dead of the night when it attacked. Keira heard it maneuvering around in the pitch black, always remaining just out of the —

— flickering light from her small campfire. However prepared she was for an attack, Keira was /not/ ready to take on two beasts at once. —

— As one had drawn her attention, another snuck up behind her and struck, knocking her aside and throwing her against a dismantled house. —

— She couldn’t remember the entirety of her escape from death, only that she was able to crawl beneath the house and wait until the —

— creatures left her be. Only when the sun rose did she dare to venture out again. She hadn’t gone far before she collapsed, her legs —

— refusing to carry her any further. She set off the smoke signal, hoping that someone would notice the off-colored cloud and come to —

— check it out. As her body grew heavier, Keira sat back and propped herself up against the walled barrier of the bridge. With half closed —

— eyes, she watched the smoke climb into the air above her. She couldn’t help but think that the color reminded her of blood.

↳ ⸢Chapter 1.a: Tagging Iam Khan⸥

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