09-24-2011, 05:30 PM
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The sound of her call echoed away into silence and Jace lapsed into thoughtful quiet after it, fingers gently caressing the small, hard bump of her stomach. She wondered which of the various element class would answer her call, she didn't expect many to attend and come to her, for Ichika was a large place and her howl did not carry too well through forests and over ravines. She leaned against a tree and looked down upon her bump, murmuring to it softly as though the developing pups would or could hear her, a strange accent filling her voice, one that was learned a long time ago at a place very far away, across the ocean in the steel bars of a Birmingham zoo. The ancestors of the wolfdog had learned this way of speaking and had passed it down to their children, when times were stressed the accent would come out to play, confounding all who she spoke to,
"Who be tha's daddy babes? Who indeed. You ain't done nothing wrong my loves, it is I who is the sinner. Just you wait, when thee's born, ah'll show you ah world you can hardly imagine, and Ichika will smile upon you, no matter who tha's da is." After her little speech to them she fell silent once more and gazed at the surrounding landscape with mismatched eyes. It wasn't long before someone came along, she heard before she saw, the soft crush of grass under footsteps and the breaking of twigs and rustling of leaves, then little Eclipse appeared with some sort of bowl on her head, Jace smiled at her, amused beyond belief at the strange sight,
"Are thee having fun with that?" She nodded to the pottery, more rustling and the three legged man who held her platonic heart so tenderly stalked into view. A full smile settled on her lips and she took a few steps towards him, holding out her hand for his,
"Noah! How are you?"
The sound of her call echoed away into silence and Jace lapsed into thoughtful quiet after it, fingers gently caressing the small, hard bump of her stomach. She wondered which of the various element class would answer her call, she didn't expect many to attend and come to her, for Ichika was a large place and her howl did not carry too well through forests and over ravines. She leaned against a tree and looked down upon her bump, murmuring to it softly as though the developing pups would or could hear her, a strange accent filling her voice, one that was learned a long time ago at a place very far away, across the ocean in the steel bars of a Birmingham zoo. The ancestors of the wolfdog had learned this way of speaking and had passed it down to their children, when times were stressed the accent would come out to play, confounding all who she spoke to,
"Who be tha's daddy babes? Who indeed. You ain't done nothing wrong my loves, it is I who is the sinner. Just you wait, when thee's born, ah'll show you ah world you can hardly imagine, and Ichika will smile upon you, no matter who tha's da is." After her little speech to them she fell silent once more and gazed at the surrounding landscape with mismatched eyes. It wasn't long before someone came along, she heard before she saw, the soft crush of grass under footsteps and the breaking of twigs and rustling of leaves, then little Eclipse appeared with some sort of bowl on her head, Jace smiled at her, amused beyond belief at the strange sight,
"Are thee having fun with that?" She nodded to the pottery, more rustling and the three legged man who held her platonic heart so tenderly stalked into view. A full smile settled on her lips and she took a few steps towards him, holding out her hand for his,
"Noah! How are you?"