Backdated to April 24th (327)
It was rare for Kaena to venture outside of her clan's borders these days. She had barely stepped foot out of Inferni since the fall of last year; she had returned to the city just once, and she had not ventured further than that. Though there was no more obvious fear in the hybrid, no overpowering sense of dread within her, some of it still lurked in the back of her mind. It would remain until the monster had fallen, and maybe even beyond that—the silver-shaded coyote could not say for sure what happened beyond death. She did not know if Haku would wait for her in the afterlife, plotting and gleefully biding his time. Salvaged might still be there for her, too—maybe she would pay for that yet.
Even so, the silver-hued woman knew in her heart she could not hunt him again. She could not lock teeth with him and hope to walk away unscathed—it had nearly killed her the first time, and maybe she was still lucky to have walked away with her life the second time. It killed her to think of herself as having been lucky during the fall; the silver-hued coyote could not think this without the distinctive twinge of bitterness across her tongue, one that made her want to spit and scratch at her own skin. She had resisted the latter urge well up to this point—self-deprecation had not been a part of the scarred woman for a very long time.
The quiet of the meadow at the center of the clan's territory was interrupted with only the occasional screech of a late hawk; though the sun was low on the horizon, a few still lingered, hoping to catch a lucky meal before they slept and the owls took over the skies for the night. The coyote woman walked through this territory aimlessly, following the river's lazy and jagged edge as she went, lost in thought.
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