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- Iskata Sadira - 08-02-2008 Iskata had been venturing out in the barnyard quite a bit lately. Her own cottage was just around the corner from the central farmstead that their livestock resided at and from her own front porch she could watch the mellow creatures grazing in the fields. She'd been exploring the barn and the pens around there, any day now she'd set out to capture the piglets from their den out in the woods. She had cleared out an old pen with shade in the barn and open roaming space out in the sunlight as well. One old apple tree's branches covered a large corner of the pen, giving shade and food for the pigs she planned on placing there. Everything was almost in place now. Her eyes twinkled as she climbed up into the barn's loft and out of sight from the world for a moment. She soon found the swinging doors that exposed the sun to the old dried out hay in the building. She was surprised that the barn had stood so well in the times but she couldn't complain. The hay wasn't really salvageable but she'd learned how to dry out the grasses and store them for future use and she had no problem working. With a grin she threw out piles upon piles of old musty hay down to the edge of the meadow below, knowing soon enough the animals there would trample it into the ground if they didn't try and eat it first. The cattle were already shambling her way as she was ridding the barn of the last few pitches of decaying matter. The sparkles of dried whisps of hay danced in the sunlight like little stars, making her smile at the sight. She shook the hay from her hair and perched on the edge of the loft's massive access doorway, looking down from world above to the beasts below. She felt at peace for the first time in a long time, this was home. - Anu - 08-02-2008 [html] thanks for starting!
[/html] - Iskata Sadira - 08-03-2008 ooc-Anu's profile piccie matches the pack colors. XD Iskata had been so intent on studying the fall of the dust motes in the sky that she hadn't even noticed the lady working about in the yard. She gave a slight startle when she heard someone call out, but when she turned about and saw the sight of the smaller female peering at her from the top of the old wood ladder she smiled and felt suddenly foolish. Motioning for the stranger to come join her Iskata wondered for a moment who she was, then remembered Hel saying something about having accepted their first member from outside the small group that had gathered on her porch. Her eyes shimmered and shone at the idea of their pack growing but soon the light faded away as she reembered that she had a guest who was joining her in the old barn loft. "Come on up, I don't bite." she said with a bit of cheer as the breeze began to blow through the opening before her. The feel of the warm currents on her damp fur made her shiver slightly but she didn't care, the view from the barn loft was worth it. Just like her cottage's back porch she could see all the way to the beach. Her cottage had a lower view, more personal, but the view she held now was still breathtaking. She loved it because she could see all the actions of the packlands in this area, from the meadows to the beach and the ol' dirt road that ran between the farm stead and her own cottage. It really was worth it, even all the work that was required, it was worth it in the end. - Anu - 08-03-2008 [html] pack pride!
[/html] - Iskata Sadira - 08-06-2008 Iskata sat back relaxing as she studied the lady who was coming to join her. Smiling as she actually accepted the leader's invitation and moved across the empty loft to sit in the open frame Iskata stopped in studying the slight woman as she turned her eyes back to the view before them. Glad that someone else had discovered the secret that she'd found before the pack had ever really come to exist. The silver and gold lady knew that the pack was taking quite a bit of time to get use to her new strange notions of lifestock and these human ideas she'd dragged out into the open. No one had yet really bucked at any of it, but then again she wasn't forcing it upon them, it was open, just like she was. When the smile creeped upon the speckled lass' face Iskata knew that she'd been right about the place they'd settled in. The name that fell from the other's lips was greeted upon eager ears as Iskata nodded and turned her head slightly to admit. "I know.. Hel spoke with me." She smiled again and offered her own to the newcomer to their home. "I'm Iskata.." She didn't offer her last name, but it didn't matter either. The lady's eyes dove back into the view before them as Iskata sighed happily. The awe in the lady's voice made her laugh softly as she turned her sun shot sky eyes to gaze at Anu. Shaking her head she admitted. "You're right, but don't let the whole world know. We might have a war on our paws if it gets out." She grinned as she teased the woman, knowing that no one would probably care for their simple pleasures that the Phoenix Valley pack seemed to love so much. - Anu - 08-06-2008 [html]
[/html] - Iskata Sadira - 08-07-2008 Iskata watched the newcomer out of the corner of her eye as she examined this new world she'd accepted into her life. She smiled slightly when she noticed that the lady's sight was trailing to the beasts below. Iskata had seen the reaction of the others in their pack but after a while everyone had grown use to the idea and some even grew to find uses for the beasts before wintertime's approach. Iskata chuckled and spoke up. "We keep them for leaner times. It's not always easy to feed a whole pack come winter bare, so we decided to bring the prey to ourselves. They have their other uses too." She let her eyes trail down to the beasts herself before raising them up to the view of meadow and back to the lady before her. The soft laughter of the lass made her smile as well as she spoke of bragging rights. She knew their pack did indeed have rights to that, but she knew the awe of the secret to, and she let Anu know that. "Yes, but keeping the secret is even more rewarding I'd think.." The concerns that Anu boast about their herd made the scarred up silver and gold lady chuckle as she turned back to the herd, raising a hand to point out the massive bull sitting off to the side while the rest peacefully dined. "We'll have to fight for them.. but we've got a mutual warrior in the herd. You'd get one hell of a surprise if you forgot about him. He's given me a run or two while I was checking on the lot of them.." Her eyes shined with the humor of it all, a grown wolf being chased by her own dinner. She's got over it by now, but it was still an amusing thought after the scare. She turned her gaze back to Anu at the mention of the tough ladies that resided in the lands. She almost wanted to chuckle at it. She herself looked like she'd been through hell, the brilliant pink of new scars and the soft shell tone of the old that flashed through her fur. She knew she was a sight with a tattered ear and all, but she let the lady have her tease. Hel was their Warrior, not Iskata, and she smiled and let Anu know. "Hel's the one with skills. I know how to save my skin or anothers, but just enough for that. I'd probably never come out on top, but as long as the pack lives another day that's fine by me." She turned her eyes away a moment before explaining. "Hel probably explained the council to you, but the ranks aren't just for show. Hel's the Warrior because she knows her skills, she can protect herself and others, without the risk of her life, atleast moreso than I could. Deuce is our Shaman because she's a skilled apothocary, she knows her herbs and healing." she smiled a moment as she thought of Deuce, who was also know for her drinking and other habits, but the world didn't need to know her personal life. She looked back to the smaller lass and opened her hands as she admitted. "I'm just the Matriarch, this pack is my family and friends.." She really didn't know how to explain who she was or why she was really their leader. They meant everything to her, and she would give her life for them, then agian any of the leaders would have done the same, in her own eyes she really wasn't that special, she was just a mother protecting those she knew and loved. - Anu - 08-10-2008 [html] So sorry for the delay!
[/html] - Iskata Sadira - 08-11-2008 Iskata sat there watching the world before them a moment before she settling in picking hay from the floor of the loft, a distant smile on her lips as she watched the shephard before them. He was the master of the meadow and he let the world know that. Iskata wasn't about to challenge him to that, knowing that he did indeed rule the fields, though the council ruled the pack. She learned from watching the beast, though she wasn't crazy enough to speak to another of how she learned from her prey. Anyone could respect the food the mother earth gave them but few really cared beyond that, maybe she was weak for doing thus but she didn't care. The silver and gold lady didn't meant to push the roles of the packmembers on the newcomer, just to show her all the differences in skills and knowledge of the others. She smiled as she turned back to Anu, the words of the lady filling her with joy at the fact that she wanted to be of help to the family. She nodded and asked. "What would you like to do, Anu?" she asked as she heard the lowing of the cattle below. Turning her eyes to the beasts she sighed and and admitted to the newest packmember. "Yes. Once we lived across the mountains but a fire drove the packs here. Not one of the original packs stayed true to their roots.. I only hope that we can remember that we're more than just a pack.. we're family." She wasn't trying to lecture the lady but Iskata had been a little hurt to come across the mountains and learn that her pack was no more and spread across the new world was no real home left for her. She had to make her own but atleast in the end it had been worth it. - Anu - 08-12-2008 [html]
[/html] - Iskata Sadira - 08-14-2008 Iskata smiled softly as she shook her head at the words Anu said. She knew the truth of it, there was protection in numbers and the members of the old packs couldn't just hang around in lands they didn't know trying to gather each and every member of their pack back to where they once began. She just turned her head towards the mountain and sighed softly. "I just wonder what it would be like, if we'd been able to stay together... but I won't let their memories die. We'll remember them in stories, in writing.. anyway we can." Ideas had rolled around in the back of her mind as she smiled that distant smile once more before giving in and turning back to the real conversation at hand. She knew she couldn't just fade away into memories with Anu there, unknown to the world Iskata dreamed of. The silver and gold lady's eyes danced at the words that Anu spoke of, she chuckled softly as she admitted. "Hopefully we'll have a need of those skills soon... It'd be nice to see some pups again." She missed her own children, all now grown and making their own in other packs and other lands. She turned those blue orbs to meet Anu's as her voice carried over the field below. "We call the pup sitter a Parere here.. I'll discuss it with Deuce and Hel, but I'm sure they wouldn't have any issues with rewarding you the rank once you've been here a little bit and have taken some time to get to know the lands and the packs." She knew it wouldn't take time at all for the smaller lass to become welcome into the pack and begin to know wolves from the other packs as well. Iskata didn't miss the small sudden pride that seemed to spark from the girl as she spoke of her hunting skills, a small smile played upon Iskata's lips as she nodded and watched the small pieces of hay trail down to the ground below as she rid the area around her of any stray bits of old fodder. "Well, atleast you're honest, if you weren't you'd have given it away just then." she teased as she raised her feet from over the ledge of the breezeway and stood up. A grin played across her maw as she offered a paw to Anu and spoke on. "If you think we've got a great view from this high, then follow me." After helping the girl to her feet the Matriarch padded across the now empty barnloft and to the opposite side of the building. Opening up a much smaller door that stood over another small set of steps she squeezed through the passage, her feet thundering on the tar coated tin roofing as she walked back and forth across the lower half of the roof, waiting for Anu to join her. - Anu - 08-16-2008 [html]
[/html] - Iskata Sadira - 08-19-2008 ooc: end here? fade to black or something? Hit me up for a thread anytime you want.. XD Iskata had tried to push the newest packmember's comments from her mind as she wanted to avoid thinking of puppies at the moment. She had grown to love each and every one of her children though they were all so different that it was hard to believe that they had all once started as dreams inside her womb. Out on the open roof she sighed as the breeze ruffled her bangs as she let it trail over her as the view stole the last thoughts of a past spent from her life. When Anu finally made her way up to join her Iskata was quiet for quite some time while Anu spoke softly, that one word. There was really no other response to it and Iskata wasn't going to press on. She leaned back against the upper roof and sighed as she ran a hand through her hair and shook the last stray bits of straw from her fur. Turning her eyes back to the other finally she just smile and let her take in the scene before admitting. "It's a great place.. when you just need some time for yourself.." or with another she thought, but she didn't speak those words aloud. There was no sense in it. She hardly knew the new packmember and she herself sure didn't have another to bring up to the barn's loft or roof for the views of the heaven. Sighing softly she spoke wistfully. "It's even more wonderous underneith the stars.." and the silence slipped between them once more. |