fandomhigh | Rangering!, Friday, Period Five [ 06/12 ].

"Good afternoon, class!" Today, they would find themselves being greeted by their brusque teacher in the usual Danger Shop clearing, although the woods seemed a bit thicker, the rocky bits rockier, and there was the sound of a waterfall and a river off in the distance, which spilled out into the sea. It was all very pretty.

"Today we are working on two very important ranger skills! Tracking, and plant finding!" He started to hand out some papers, which were probably pretty helpful and full of information, but Minsc would not be offended if anyone made paper planes or blew their noses in them...because they had a lot of information on them and reading was hard. "Being able to recognize signs of creatures in the area recently might be a big difference between a successful raid or being eaten by a bear! And knowing the difference between a plant that can a heal and a plant that can give you explosive stomach pains is very good, too! You'd be surprised how similar they make some of those! So please look over the material, ask any questions if you've got them, and I'd like you to pair up, go into the woods, and start tracking! Try to find the lair of a creature or monster hidden in these woods, and then try to locate at least three bad plants and three good plants! When you are done, you may work on your sparring or target practise. Now go!"

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"Wet. Muddy. Nothing I haven't had to put up with before, except I wish it hadn't been right after I fell asleep. It would've been fine if my little brother hadn't decided to come say hello." It was pretty obvious Tahiri wasn't thrilled about that.

"I saw that," Ben said, because of course he'd been watching. "I was going to come over but I figured you could take care of yourself with him."

Tahiri gave him a grateful, almost shy smile. "He's going to get himself kicked one of these days. I saw you too. You didn't look so happy."

"I'm sure if you put up a poster, there'd be a line through the dorm to help you," he said, ignoring the second part of her comment.

"That'd be overkill." Tahiri leveled a quick glance at him. "I know you weren't, Ben. I notice these things, you know."

"It's been a long week," he said quietly.

"For both of us," Tahiri answered. "I hate it when you're unhappy, and I can't help."

He moved a little closer to her. "I hate you being unhappy because I'm unhappy."

"It's because I care about you, dummy," she said gently. "That is kind of how this works."

"It'll get better," he said. "It always does."

He was repressing as fast as he could, after all.

Tahiri was kind of doing the same thing for as long as she could stand to at a stretch. They were so awesomely healthy. Really.

"It will," she said, not caring if it sounded a little lame, and making up for that through sheer determination as she shifted a step closer. "It's us, right?"

"And we're too stubborn to stop trying," he said.

Tahiri smiled slightly. "I wouldn't want us to."

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