Black with sin

Kaena Lykoi · 04-15-2010, 04:47 AM

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The war was over, but the borders had become no less interesting to Kaena. As far as she was concerned, there was a monster out there still, a wolf stray with blue eyes who had yet to be put down. The silver-furred coyote was still vigilant on Inferni's outskirts, and she patrolled these corners of the territory almost constantly. The hybrid woman was always moving; it seemed she should tire, but even when that tiredness crept up on her the silvery canine pushed forward, ever-concerned with the safety of the pack. There was no time to rest. This morning was no different; as dawn had risen so had the coyote, a strange hour for the hybrid, but then again, when had she ever been normal? That had been beaten out of her in the first few months of life, ripped from her future by the woman who had whelped her and her long-dead sisters.

A strange feeling enveloped the hybrid on this morning, an uneasy thing that crept into her heart and made her nervous, agitated. She paced forward with greater fervor until she halted, struck cold in motion as she spied a prone form on the earth, ragged and familiar and awful all at once. Her remaining fire-gold eye flew open and her mouth opened in a snarl, her paws propelling her forward before she even realized she was unfrozen, at the younger woman's side in an instant. “Halo? Halo?” the woman cried, her russet-furred muzzle nudging at the younger canine. Panic rose in her chest and her heart thudded in her ears, a low whine rising from her chest, again pushing at the younger coyotes cheek with her nose, this time with more insistence. Already she was shifting, leaning forward onto her paws as they slowly became hands, the rest of her body shuddering through the transformation. She had always been a fast shifter, but the rage and confusion and panic made it impossible to go through it quickly.

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