private Infiltrator. 1x1 with Unicorncob

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Jenna pointed at the trees she had toppled of the pool of water "Visual shelter is enough...for me, because anyone able...to smell or hear me, would smell and hear me...regardless the shelter." "And unlike you...unlike humans, I don't need shelter...from the elements." 

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"Still, you're hurt," Oliver pointed out. "You need to take care and make sure no one can find you."

He put a hand on her. "But I'll be close if you need anything. Don't move if you don't need to."

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"Like said...that's what the trees are for." Jenna concluded, the fact was that she was big bright red creature with open, be it burned shut wounds, the only thing she could hide from was things flying above them; anything on the ground would be able to smell, see or hear her regardless what she did, as the only real way to hide better was caves, and they weren't actually super common, especially not ones she could actually fit into. The problem with caves was also the fact that they usually had only one good entrance, so if someone came from there, there was no way to run away to. 

She sniffed the air "I can smell a rainstorm...coming." she moved back into the pool of water once more "That's good, it'll wash...away the smells." 

 

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"I guess as long as no one comes this way, we should be okay," Oliver said.

Then he realised something and looked at Jenna. "Wait, can't you just turn back into your human form? It'd make hiding easier."

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Jenna shook her head, and quite bluntly said "I'd die." she kept a short pause to let it sink in "I have broken bones...so possibly shards of bone...not connected to me anymore...inside me; And I have wounds...and I'm missing a chuck of my shoulder." "When we transform....we physically shrink." "Even if I survived the transformation itself....the human body cannot withstand this much...damage." 

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Oliver's heart skipped a beat when he heard that from Jenna. He hadn't thought about how transforming would effect her injuries. "Well, you should stay in human form for a while when you're healed up again."

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"We'll see what the situation is then." Jenna stated "Being found...in the first place, and whatever...those dragons were..." "...it complicates things." "If nothing else...I need to be lot more alert...to be ready to shed the human form...when needed." The wind started picking up. 

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"At least in human form you'll be harder to spot in a crowd," Oliver pointed out. "Especially if we don't leave any tracks behind. We just need to wait until you're well enough."

He held his jacket closer to him as the wind picked up, and he found himself moving closer to her for warmth.

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"The wind is picking up." Jenna stated "Soon it will start to rain." as she said it, she looked into the direction of the wind "You should...get into to shelter I made for you...before you get wet." regardless of being so big, Jenna wasn't actually that warm beyond blocking the wind with her size, as while her body's temperature was lot higher than human's, her scales isolated most of that, the current exception being her wounds, as having lost the scales from those areas, they were radiating heat. 

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Oliver didn't want to leave Jenna alone while she was so prone, but he wouldn't be much good to her if he got sick.

"I'll be close by if you need me," he said, patting her gently before going to the shelter.

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"I know." Jenna responded, almost making a joke about the fact that the shelter was pretty much next to her spot, but she decided not to after figuring that it would make her seem dismissive and like she wanted to get rid of Oliver. If it was up to her, she wouldn't have cared if Oliver took shelter or not, but as she had said to Oliver few times now, and as he himself acknowledged, him getting sick would be a problem, and while the effects of Jenna's blood did seem to make Oliver bit more than just a regular human, it wasn't worth the risk to just assume that disease resistance was among the changes.

The wind picked up more, as the first drops of the incoming rain started falling, Jenna wasn't used to feeling the wind on her skin, so feeling it in her wounds was slightly unpleasant, but she would manage, as she lied down into the pool of water and positioned her wings to work as a sort of wind-cover. "Try to get some sleep...we can talk more after...the rain passes." 

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"Yeah, you try to sleep too," Oliver said. He didn't like how prone Jenna looked laying in the rain, but there was nothing he could do for her at the moment. He laid down in his shelter and tried to get some sleep.

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It was actually quite easy for Jenna to fall asleep, because she was still exhausted regardless of her earlier nap, as her injuries took a real toll on her, and it only got easier when the rainstorm arrived fully, as the cooling air combined with the rhythm of pouring rain was relaxing to her. The storm lasted for quite a while, only calming down around sunrise, nothing much happened during it, but Jenna had to move a bit few times, as the water she was laying in rose during the rain, and she didn't want it to go into her nostrils. 

When the rain eased, Jenna was still laying in her 'shelter', but she hadn't been there the whole time, as during the worst of the rain, she had gone to hunt something to eat, without telling Oliver of course. 

 

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Oliver had managed to fall asleep as well, comforted by listening to the rain. He was so fast asleep he hadn't noticed Jenna getting up and leaving.

He eventually woke up and saw her spot was empty. He got up and looked around, starting to fear she'd been captured, or worse.

"Jenna?" he called.

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"I'm here." Came Jenna's muffled voice, from the other side of Oliver's shelter, as she limped to view, revealing the reason why her voice was muffled, as she dropped a pile of sticks and pieces of wood on the ground "Firewood." she stated dryly, as she started digging a place for a fire "Did you sleep...well?" 

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"Sure, yeah," Oliver said, thankful that Jenna was okay. He watched her a dig a hole for a fire. "How are you feeling? I don't know if the rain did any good for you healing, but maybe it's different for dragons."

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"Rain doesn't heal...but it did make...the burns more tolerable." Jenna stated, as she dropped some of the sticks and wood into the hole, and breathed fire to ignite them "the wounds and bones have...started their healing process, but...it'll take a while." 

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Oliver nodded and stood by the fire. He was glad she was starting to heal. "Hopefully it won't take too long."

He looked up at Jenna with a smile. "How do you feel now? Has the pain lessened or anything?"

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"The wounds have gone numb." Jenna stated "Ribs still..very much broken." "More aches in places." she sat down "I'd say...the worst is over in couple..of days." "Fully healed in...about a week." she offered a piece of deer to Oliver, it was wrapped in a wrap made of the deer's skin, though she had cleaned both of them from blood and had cut the meat to look more like something one would see in a store, as she hadn't missed how uncomfortable Oliver had been before; it was still raw though, so it would need to be cooked "meat?" 

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"Well, at least you're healing," Oliver said. "Sounds like we'll be here for a week, though."

He looked at the raw meat and grimaced. "No thanks, I would but humans can't eat raw meat like dragons can. You need it more than me anyway."

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Jenna blinked at Oliver "Are you tired?...or have humans really lost...their survival sense that badly?" she opened the 'wrap', took the meat on her foreclaws and put it on top of the fire, causing it to start to cook, she rose her brows at Oliver; maybe pit passive aggressive, but in her defense, she was still in pain. "And don't worry about me...I ate rest of the deer already." 

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"Well like I said, humans can't eat raw meat," Oliver repeated, being thankful Jenna had started cooking it. "I'd get sick if I ate it as it was. Plus, you're the one who's badly injured so you need your strength to heal."

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"So it's just you." Jenna stated as she piled some stones in the fire so that she wouldn't need to hold the meat, putting the meat to cook on top of the stones "I don't know if I should...be offended or worried about you." "Either you underestimate my intelligence...or your capability of deduction and reason is being hindered by something." she looked at Oliver "Because you thinking that I...don't know the basic diet of a species...I pretend to be; you either think I'm stupid...or you don't think at all."  "I never assumed you'd eat it raw...I just assumed I didn't need to spell it out for you." 

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Oliver rolled his eyes. He knew Jenna was in pain, but he didn't feel like the vocal dressing down was necessary.

"Well, I'm glad to know your pride is still intact," he said flatly. "You're still you, at least."

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"And you should think bit more...about yourself." Jenna stated "You don't eat, you don't take shelter...and you are so worried about me, that your ability to deduce information...seems to struggle." she looked at Oliver "Your care for me is endearing...and I appreciate your concern, but too much is too much...and when I need to insist for you to take care of yourself...when your judgement seems to be hindered by it." "It becomes a liability."