Gatzou turned his head and gave Juras a sort of appraising look. He had a point, if only one of conveinience.
Oh, what the hell...
"My name is Gatzou."
He said it simply, giving it almost no emotional tone at all. It was just a frank statement. If they wanted to think it was fake, that was up to them. Honestly, it might work to his advantage, especially if they decided to double-cross him later.

Derekshook his head. Well, atleast I won't bother him...

Derek pulled his shield from his back, then pulled a rag from his belt pouch. As he walked, he began polishing and cleaning his shield and weapons.

OOC: "I'm still here. I'm just not doing anything so you guys can catch up. No hurry, though. I'll monitor the thread."

The group had passed the remains of a camp-fire about an hour ago. At least, Gatzou had passed the ashen remains of a fire. He did not know if the others had taken any notice, but he took it as a sign that they were still of the woman's trail.
He suddenly immediately in front of a large, prickly bush, swiftly raising the hand not carrying his kwan-dao as a signal to both halt and silence. He crouched low in front of the bush, using his weapon to push aside some of the brambles. He waited for a tense moment, resembling in his manner a large cat about to attack some particularly juicy rodent.
With a lithe suddeness, he had leapt forward, ignoring the bush's existence.
The long, wide blade at the end of his kwan dao flashed in the (now) morning light and was followed by a few seconds of silence.
Then, with crackling stomps of underbrush, Gatzou reemrged from the bush, looking as if he had done something no more unusual than comment on the weather. Only now, his spear had an streak of crimson on the blade, and he was nonchalantly dragging a deer carcass.
"Lunch, anyone?"

Derek was a little suprised, after Gatzou's self introduction, but maybe he had decided to make the best of having a group. Hopefully this trip wasn't going to be walking on eggshells the entire way.

"Well, thanks, don't mind if I do." Derek replied.

"Hmm, never had raw deer before", Jack looked at the body for a moment, "Shure why not?"
He walked over and offered a hand with what he could, I might as well make myself useful if Im going to hlep these people.

"I figured on cooking mine," he said to Jack, just a hint ofdry sarcasm in his voice, "But you can have yours raw if you want."
He turned around and yanked a large amout of dead branches off the bush he had just stomped through. It seemed like it might make good kindling.
"If you wanna help, dig a fire-pit while I skin this thing."
Gatzou had noticed a look of suprise on Derek's face at his offer of lunch, but once again his motives were mostly selfish. These guys seemed intent on following him, or at least following the woman, and it wouldn't do him any good if they collapsed from hunger in the middle of nowhere. Besides, there was no way he could even come close to eating an entire deer on his own.

Derek laughed at Jack's comment. "Trust me, raw deer doesn't taste to good. I suggest you cook yours." Derek turned to Gatzou. "Do you mind if I light the fire?"

[ooc] I will be unable to post over christmas break. Ill be back around Jan 16th or 17th.[/ooc]

"Well, I thought you were different then you are", Jack said, thinking of the stupidity of his remark, "I thought you were one of those, kill things, eat them, and keep going kind of people".
He looked around for something to dig with and found a rock, no that they were hard to find, but a good digging rock and started digging a hole.

Juras looked around for something useful to help, but couldn't find anything. Shrugging, he walked off a little way, so they could still see him, and started juggling knives.

Hmm, he thought. Then again, we will need some firewood. Spotting a likely tree, he started concentrating on the knives. He could feel the air swirling around the knives as he juggled; with just a little effort, he could refocus the air and...

The knives made no noise at all as he grabbed them; they made no noise as three large tree branches crashed to the ground. He released the energy and thunk-thunk-thunk went three knives in the forest beyond. Heading over to retrieve his knives, he called, "We got some firewood."