[M] Please be soft and sweet to me

Eris Eternity · 04-06-2011, 06:17 PM

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The hybrid woman was not so oblivious that she did not recongize the faint scent of familiarity in Anathema. She had known one of her Anathema packmates had also come from Inferni and those coyotes there, but Eris had no interest for her former pack-mates. The presence of a coyote and former Infernian was inconsequential to the coal-shaded hybrid, so long as she was left alone and not forced to confront her former heritage. Thus far, she and the mysterious other had completely ignored one another -- she did not have a name to attach to the face, which was not terribly surprising, considering the Tuyul's general indifference to the coyotes and everyone who swore allegiance to them. Still, the presence of that male scent here in Anathema was telling -- he had left, too, or he had been cast out of their midst. One or the other, his loyalty to Inferni had faded. Despite all her supposed indifference, the hybrid found herself curious on this matter. If he had left, why had he taken leave from them? If he had been exiled, what had he done?

The cool sharpness of winter was beginning to fade, and some of the bite had gone out of the wind. Still, it was cold on this mountain face, trees and cover or not -- a result of their higher elevation, perhaps. The pack was lucky to call the caves their own; they provided ample shelter from the wind and snow and elements, and the fires burning underground would keep them warm and in the light. The half-breed was not disturbed by the temperature of the world. Her coat was thick and wolfish, bearing no resemblance in color or composition to a coyote's fur. Eterne had been stifling and hot in the summer, and even in winter the temperatures did not dip so much toward cold; it simply became less hot.

The nameless scent trailed out of the caves, meandering and without purpose. She trailed after it absently, though the presence of a winter-thin rabbit distracted the coal-shaded woman from her scent trail after not too long. This new quest caught her attention, but after following after the bunny for a few moments, Eris's lack of finesse and skill caused her to make noise, scaring the rabbit into running. Left alone, the hybrid peered about, her yellow-green gaze looking around the still patchy-white world. There was a faint sound of voices, too far away to have any canorous sound to them, too distant to even make out a single word.

Curiosity caught the hybrid, and she followed after this noise, still in the mindset of the huntress. Her movement was as quiet as she could manage, her Optime feet lifting from the ground and falling carefully, body slung low to the ground and yellow-green eyes widened in curiosity at the pair. One was tawny and streaked with fire, the other the dead yellow-gold of desert sand. Her wolflike ears were pricked forward to catch their noise, the last word uttered by the orange-yellow canine something about fatherhood. Standing, the coyote hybrid made her way forward, now catching that this wolf was a stranger. The sand-shaded canine was the stranger, the former Infernian she had not taken the time to recognize.

Whether or not they knew each other in a past life was irrelevant; all that mattered now was his presence in Anathema and their current status as packmates and the fact that this second wolf was an outsider. She did not speak, but she was no longer quiet -- her movements were pronounced, noise announcing her presence to the pair. The stranger's back was turned to her, but the other canine could certainly see her, perhaps saw her as she first approached.

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