Aries crawled out of the small hole that was the entrance to her home. Fortunately (or perhaps unfortunately, when she wanted to head into the city), she was quite far from the main part of the city, where all the chemicals and degenerates lived. Glad I'm not heading into town today. Man, what a trek.
Aries stood and looked for a bit at the city in the distance. She could see a few of the larger boats floating around, and she felt a thrill go through her as she thought about the strange mix of magic and technology that allowed the airships to exist. That's what I want to do. Magic and science, mixing together; that's what life is supposed to be!
It bummed her out to see all the gross smog and whatnot crowding out the bottom of the city. She'd heard some of the unpleasant things that happened to those who stuck around it for too long. It's why she'd chosen a cave far, far from the main city. It may take an hour to walk there, but it was more than worth it. She was quite far from any of the alchemical vents that kept the city aloft– the closest was about a mile away.
She was considering joining some of the groups that helped out the unfortunate folks down at the bottom– everyone that wasn't in the prison, anyway. Aries wasn't entirely sure what kind of prisoners they kept there, but almost everyone she'd asked about it had some of the most violent and/or heinous criminals were locked up there. She shuddered.
The real bummer about living up there was that there was almost nothing to hunt. There were a couple of rivers that were supplied with fish– one that was, thankfully, near Aries– but pickings were scarce. To catch anything big, you needed access to the ground. Aries had thought of about a thousand different ways to build her own, private method of getting to the ground, but none of them were simple, or cheap. So, for the moment, she was– as it were– skylocked.
Still, though, there was the occasional wild rabbit, which is what Aries was hunting now.
Hunting, of course, being a loose term. Rabbits were just about as easy to catch as… Anything, really; it was only ten minutes of walking before she spotted one. Crouching low to the ground, Aries took a deep, silent breath as she drew her arrow as quietly as she could. Aiming, as she'd learned to do on the road, she released the breath and the arrow at the same time.
The poor rabbit never knew what snuffed out its life. It always made Aries a bit sad, but still, she had to eat. She always comforted herself with the fact that their brains were a lot smaller than humans (she'd killed enough rabbits to know that), and likely didn't have anything like the capacity to think and feel that humans did. She hoped. "Hope you have a good time in Rabbit Heaven, little buddy."
With her kill in hand, Aries began heading back to her cave, navigating the rocky terrain with ease.