Wait

She doesn´t want to deal with Clovis, even if the rumors about his pevertedness are false he might get the idea when she tried to negotiate, even more so because of those strict rules imposed on everyone, even the Elders. The alternative wouldn´t be really viable, she thought, she would need to first scavenge for the fruits and mushrooms and if that wasn´t hard enough, even with all her training, she would still need to deal with tracking a exceptionally smart, fast and possibly magic Deer in the while, all of that being careful enough not to be caught off-guard those bandits infesting the region, in summary, a very difficult, if not impossible, task to accomplish. So she decides to stay, it's not as if she is in any danger here and her hesitation about staying was to face the shame about admitting her fifth failure in a row when most are able to acomplish their tasks in 3 days, at most, she has only two more days until she is declared a Failed Huntress for the next year, until she can try again, with all the consequences that would entail, like the continuing molesting from the boys.

Speaking of molestation, while she is sitting and thinking about her situation "Hey Lina, how good to see you awake so early!" she hears the familiar voice of a Hunter called Karl, one of the Huntlings she has trained with, and the one who enjoyed the most being able to **** her, there was one time she was even **** to blow him and even came on her mouth, but had recently left her alone, proably concentrating on the task of bringing a specially large boar to the village as part of his Ritual, and he did it on his first try too, unlike her, and if he was a jerk before, now he is a proven, competent fully-fledged Hunter in adition to that, therefore his ego must be at a all time high, the only reason he hasn´t molested her before was because he didn´t find her, she had made a point to avoid places where he would be, but then, he shouldn´t be here at this time, there wasn´t no real reason for him to be awake at this time, unless... "Let me guess, you are on hunting duty today?" Karl is tall and strong, since his first days on the training, he was considered a a prodigious athlete and always had a natural knack for most of the training, the only exception was his academics, he wasn´t the brightest when it came to geometry, mathematics or even for the letters, but because those didn´t usually hamper his abilities as a hunter, he was always next or at the top of the Huntlings evaluations.

He answers her back, his anticipation and arrogance almost palpable "Oh yes, since I had such an excellent performance in my Ritual, I got to choose at which hours and day my duty would be and I knew I would eventually catch you here, probably trying to avoid my attentions?" He may not have been the smartest when it came to academics but he is a cunning bastard, it is no wonder he was able to hunt that Boar, the only reason he didn´t rob the Deer from her, is because she had marked it as her prey, otherwise he or someone else better than her at hunting would have killed it, or maybe the Deer would have eluded Karl, since it were able to keep living despite the efforts of the best Hunters the village had to offer, when she marked it as a prey, she knew people thought she would fail, but she would prove them wrong, oh she would.

But her train of thought is interrupted when Karl reaches a hand on her shoulders and speaks "Were you?" She knows this wasn´t the case, but she also knows she wouldn´t able to avoid being molested unless she do something, there are some ways in which a woman can refuse male advances, like overpowering him instead, which she thought would be unlikely in her hungry state, unless she could get him on a time of weakness. She hasn´t spoken yet, silence is consent, the saying goes, so his hands begin traveling down her leather shirt from her shoulder. But there could be other ways, the one advantage she had over him was that she was always smarter than him, even though he is cunning, she was more intelligent than him, generally speaking, maybe a good plan now and she is free from him. Unless she really wants to take the easy road and allow herself to be molested. Maybe she really expected him to come and take her, eventually.