12-18-2010, 09:00 PM
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Snow crunched under her bare feet, and every inch of the white female shivered, despite her coat and her thickened fur. She set off early a few mornings before, after celebrating she and her brothers' coming of age celebration, with no real destination in mind; only a drive to see what lay beyond the northern lands she was slightly more familiar with. Shiloh, now considered an adult among her peers, didn't find it necessary to have a guardian or accompaniment wherever she went. Not that she had even needed it when she did return to Dahlia, but her father still did send out scouts to be sure she was going in the right direction.
Her direction now was south, and where she'd end up, Shi didn't really know. The white and cream colored female thought she had scented packs of other wolves nearby, but they still felt like they neighbored Dahlia. No, she wanted to know the lands beyond that, and as she walked that very day, the sun bright overhead (though it did little to help the winter cold), Shi was going to get exactly what she had asked for.
She thought she'd been traveling grasslands, and meadows all the previous day, but soon the lands began to change. It became forested in areas, and everything within it seemed almost touched, yet still retained its natural qualities. It wasn't long at all until the female, whose fur blended well in the season, reached a barbed fence, which looked too new and updated to have been man made. "Oh!" The female exclaimed, stopping just at the opening of the fence. Her nose picked up the scents of wolves; they weren't fresh, but not old enough to have escaped her senses, either. She lifted her muzzle up from the coat she wore, attempting to spot any signs of life past the fence.
Shiloh did not see other wolves. What she saw instead, however, was a small herd of wapiti among the trees that lay ahead, their noses pressed against tree trunks to strip off the plentiful bark it was coated with. There couldn't have been more than six of seven of them together, with two calves. The antlers of the males were just near to falling off, even she could see it from where she was standing, but that wasn't going to stop a herd from protecting the weak and the young.
Shiloh gasped when she saw them in the trees, and her eyes sparkled with joy as she saw them. "They're beautiful," she exclaimed into the air, her breath misty as she spoke. The young female had never seen elk before, though she was told of them when she was younger. Now more focused on getting a closer look at them, the female walked through the barbed wire fence, forgetting that this might have been another pack's territory. The female Luperci's tail wagged with delight, stopping just a few feet away from the edge of the trees, merely wanting to see the white-rumped creatures in their natural habitat.
500+Snow crunched under her bare feet, and every inch of the white female shivered, despite her coat and her thickened fur. She set off early a few mornings before, after celebrating she and her brothers' coming of age celebration, with no real destination in mind; only a drive to see what lay beyond the northern lands she was slightly more familiar with. Shiloh, now considered an adult among her peers, didn't find it necessary to have a guardian or accompaniment wherever she went. Not that she had even needed it when she did return to Dahlia, but her father still did send out scouts to be sure she was going in the right direction.
Her direction now was south, and where she'd end up, Shi didn't really know. The white and cream colored female thought she had scented packs of other wolves nearby, but they still felt like they neighbored Dahlia. No, she wanted to know the lands beyond that, and as she walked that very day, the sun bright overhead (though it did little to help the winter cold), Shi was going to get exactly what she had asked for.
She thought she'd been traveling grasslands, and meadows all the previous day, but soon the lands began to change. It became forested in areas, and everything within it seemed almost touched, yet still retained its natural qualities. It wasn't long at all until the female, whose fur blended well in the season, reached a barbed fence, which looked too new and updated to have been man made. "Oh!" The female exclaimed, stopping just at the opening of the fence. Her nose picked up the scents of wolves; they weren't fresh, but not old enough to have escaped her senses, either. She lifted her muzzle up from the coat she wore, attempting to spot any signs of life past the fence.
Shiloh did not see other wolves. What she saw instead, however, was a small herd of wapiti among the trees that lay ahead, their noses pressed against tree trunks to strip off the plentiful bark it was coated with. There couldn't have been more than six of seven of them together, with two calves. The antlers of the males were just near to falling off, even she could see it from where she was standing, but that wasn't going to stop a herd from protecting the weak and the young.
Shiloh gasped when she saw them in the trees, and her eyes sparkled with joy as she saw them. "They're beautiful," she exclaimed into the air, her breath misty as she spoke. The young female had never seen elk before, though she was told of them when she was younger. Now more focused on getting a closer look at them, the female walked through the barbed wire fence, forgetting that this might have been another pack's territory. The female Luperci's tail wagged with delight, stopping just a few feet away from the edge of the trees, merely wanting to see the white-rumped creatures in their natural habitat.