Who's Stalking Who? [Ava/Adam]

Good god it was fucking hot.

Ava was tangling herself up in the umbrella-like branches of the tree, trying to get out of the sun as much as possible. Why the hell did they have to go to such a hot place? No, better question, why did she go off on her own for training? The whole place was full of plains, not very many places to hide or be stealthy, god damn. Only thing she could use as a hiding space were these stupid trees, but whatever asshole made this existence decided to make the damn thing hard to climb and even harder to squeeze into where was much cooler.

Thank god she was wearing thin clothing, consisting of rather short black pants and a tank top, but both articles of clothing were soaked with sweat. She couldn't even tell where she was anymore, which only lead to further frustration, along with shadowy hands breaching her neck area ever so often, letting out angered cries while thrashing around, being suppressed by her putting a hand over their origin point.

No need to let her inner hell loose now, was quite a terrible time for it.

She downed her second bottle of water, the dry climate making her very damn thirsty every 10 minutes, at least thats how much it felt. She sighed, letting out a gentle fit of coughing, lying amongst the tangled branches and leaves pressing into her body, and just giving herself a moment to think. That moment was assaulted with bounding off the walls crazy angry internal dialogue, several voices shouting about different things; Ulv, Mother, Junie, how hot it was, this Tsubasa guy, all sorts of shit catapulting themselves around in her skull without a care in the world.

"Alright that's enough deep thinking..." She mumbled, forcing herself to the top of the leaves and stupid branches. Needed a vantage point to getting back to civilized society, especially before the sun sets.

Trees, plains... A barking sound caught her attention, though. Her eyes floating down to see a small brown shape in the bush; looked like some sort of fox.

"Foodfoodfooditsfoodyouseeitsfoodfood.."

"I know I know, shut it." She clasped the back of her neck quite aggressively, quickly silencing the hands beginning to emerge. Her tools were below, however, since they wouldnt fit through the damn branches. She slowly slipped down through the maze-like flora, keeping her eyes on the fox who had stopped to probably eat, or take a shit, she didn't care; she was hungry.

She carefully slid down the trunk, using a knife to control her speed as she did before. Finally with her feet on the ground, she slowly reached for her bow and quiver, watching the fox as she readied an arrow, controlling her breathing and steadying her drawback as to not make the straining noise of the string being pulled too obvious.

She slowly advanced forward, each step carefully planned after the next, her eyes clearly saying to any that she was completely focused, cold, they screamed predator...

Close... So close... Just had to get into the right position so she'd kill it instead of injuring it and giving it a chance to run off...

Of course Ava was completely unaware of the presence that was approaching behind her, of course until the crunching of grass and shifting of the earth alerted the fox, which lifted it's head from the grass and immediately took off into the underbrush. The girl tensed, quickly loosing an arrow, only for it to ultimately miss.

"Damn it." She cussed, throwing her bow down and growling. What was completely unexpected was the sensation of something being put into her hand without her conscious consent. Fear spiked in her chest, her drawing a knife and turning around, facing the male and having clearly been ready to stab his daylights out if she didn't see he wasn't trying to attack her. She stopped before the blade got close to his flesh, sighing and pocketing the knife. The shadowy hands attempted to form once more, hissing into her ear,

"Himhimhedidithescaredoffthefoodhimhimhim.."

"Shut it." She mumbled, putting a free hand to the back of her neck once more to suppress the angered shadowy hands, "It's a thing called hunting, and i'm hungry."

She looked mildly irritated that this boy had chased off her prey, wiping away sweat from her drenched forehead. She didn't quite want to entertain his desire to talk, but she expected that he'd likely follow her around and scare off more edible creatures until she spoke to him, so it'd be better to just satisfy his curiosity and just be done, yes?

"Not starving to death, just hungry and hot. I came out here for stealth training, but as you can see," She gestured to the open expanse, hardly having any trees, and even the trees were terrible for hiding in, "Not many places to practice stealth. Now if you excuse me, i'd like to get back to civilization before the sun sets and it gets horribly cold."

She began walking off, though opened the hand that contained the chocolate, seeing it had melted a bit on her palm. She narrowed her eyes, licking the messy sweet off her hand as she looked for a better vantage point to find her way back.

Ava only continued to walk to find a vantage point, not quite fast enough for her to completely vanish into the impending darkness and rolling hills, but she was pretty damn close, despite this strange man's wishes for her to come along with him. Even if she wasn't as abrasive and outwardly antisocial as before, the green haired lass was still more inclined to keep things inside and just go on her way than trust a complete stranger.

His offer however, slowed her into a crawl, in terms of walk speed. She looked at her feet, soon stopping as she sat on that thought. Why would he offer something like that? He met her only a few minutes ago; sounds a bit risky to try to welcome a completely random person into such a thing. She was soon touched by him, which her subconsciousness did not take too kindly to, but she felt cold when those words crawled into her mind:

"Don't you want to become more powerful than this?"

The gears in her brain instantly started turning as she remembered several things; the immense amount of torture she was put through that was horrid enough to make her forget what pain itself was, Juniper's crying face as she was put to death as she was forced to watch, and Mother, just... Mother.

Her fist tightened, her teeth grinding, as the shadowy hands emerged from the forest of her locks, one gently stroking her face as the rest stared at Adam, dead silent for once.

"..Alright. What do you want me to do?"

"Sure, totally reassuring.."

She was completely unsure about this man, who had grasped her hand and pulled her along. This man both set off alarm bells in her head, and turned them off at the same time. She could sense murderous intent from a mile away, this guy had... Something like that, maybe? She couldn't tell; trying to figure him out was a difficult activity. He acted... Way too sweet. None of her clients, victims, or even miss assassin herself had this much of a capacity for happiness. He didn't quite hit the notes for a horrible person, but she couldn't help but be a little wary of him..

And then they arrived. At... A hole. More precisely a cave. Confusion instantly hit Ava's thoughts. She was all the more tempted to think this was just some gigantic prank or something and the man grasping her hand was more immature than she thought, but she didn't want to toss away the opportunity for vengeance, provided there being a small chance it still exists.

Eden's Evolution, huh?

Eerily reminded her of something, taking a brief glance at her legs but shook it off. Definitely a coincidence; the idiots that were after her wouldn't be so up front.

She followed him inside, keeping her composure calm and composed as she saw everything suddenly brighten as they crossed in, surprised to see a bunch of people around. So... Wasn't lying. Isn't a plain cave in the slightest. She was further surprised with all the domestication put into a cavern, looking around all the rooms as Adam had lead her to the quite busy eating area.

Some tugs of anxiety made her feel uncomfortable with the sheer volume of people, but she took a deep breath, coming with him to a table, keeping her face cool and expressionless despite the few things she allowed to flow under the surface. She looked surprised with the holographic menu popping up, her looking among the options, though saw him pop in a startling amount of cupcakes, all of the same variety of... She guessed strawberry for now.

She looked through the menu, silently disturbed at how quickly he was consuming the sweet masses of cooked flour slathered with even more sweetness. She was one for sweets, but that was a slightly disturbing degree of a love for sugar.

She sighed, tapping on something rather basic; a hamburger with some fries, along with a drink. Seeing the basic set up of food pop up in front of her, she picked up a fry, observing it for a minute before putting it into her mouth, though the male had another question for her; about what she wished to evolve.

"..Evolve?" She had no idea what he meant by it, but took a moment to think on it, "Mmm... I mean, I did say I wanted to be stronger, but I wouldn't think that's specific enough... Hmm." She gently tapped her bottom lip, before seeming to come up with something, "I'd say... Having more control, to be able to protect the ones I love with more control... Something along those lines, I think."