Venandi
Contest 4
Let me tell you the story of Venandi.
Petite, at first sight, but tough as hell. Not surprising when you consider that she comes from the cold and unforgiving north. As the daughter of a hunter she was in no way inferior to her father. She and her father liv.... Forget it, that place no longer exists, and neither should the memory, too painful....
Since the radiation, she has struggled through the world, largely on her own. With her father's rifle. An engraving, still barely visible, reminds her of him every day. That was a little more than 20 years ago.
The world has changed. With it all life on it. Few know that she used to have blue eyes. Today they are amber. Curse or blessing? I don't know yet. But she can see at distances, which has long been invisible to the "normal" eye. Still what is normal nowadays. Frustrating in any case, because no rifle can keep up with her vision.
As a hunter, she never had any sympathy for animal tamers... but... extraordinary times require extraordinary means. So, in order to survive in this harsh world, Venandi also had to...tame...a...thing. In pairs, the chances of survival increase considerably. Although, you always see Venandi alone if you ever get to see her. But she is always accompanied. The others call this tamed mutee “Guard”. They are convinced that it must protect Venandi, because how else could one survive alone in the wilderness with all these wild mutees? Robust they both seem to be, as rarely as they visit the surrounding villages.
The others like them, though. Not at least because of her rifle and her senses, her vision first of all. She has already saved the lives of others several times. I didn’t count but I think… a few hundred? When a wild mutee attacks a villager, in most cases, a bang brings the encounter to an end, only one, she never misses.
Rumor has it that she is never far from the villages, she likes people but has devoted herself to nature. Who am I? How do I know all this about Venandi? That's not important. But know that everything I told you today is true.