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Eris Eternity · 03-07-2012, 05:40 AM

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Amherst was a familiar place for Eris. She had explored much of this sprawling town, moving from one street to the next, creating as best a mental map as she could. While it was not quite so confusing and massive as Halifax, the dark-furred woman did find its layout confusing, and many of the human houses appeared similar to her. It was easy to get lost in such a place, but Eris refused to admit she was lost. Instead, she was simply wandering or exploring. She had spent the past half an hour doing so, growing tired of the scenery of asphalt and tumbledown human ruins.

The houses began to thin out, and Eris continued onward eagerly. Suburbia gave way to farmhouses, each more dilapidated than the rest, and the dark woman found herself on the marshes once again, traipsing across the low hills and rolling flatlands so similar to Salsola's own claim. She had taken care to rub the scent of the pack from herself, though today -- strangely enough -- she traveled alone. Normally, Eris always demanded accompaniment when she left the pack's confines, but today was different. Living with quite so many canines -- her growing daughters, Basilaris and Salvador, her cats, and Molcaxitl -- had worn her down.

She had sought Amherst for that solitude earlier in the afternoon, and now with the rutilant glow of imminent sunset, the dark woman desired to return home. It would not seem fortune favored her, however, for two reasons: firstly, she was turned away from Salsola. This she saw immediately, for the mountains loomed up ahead of her, more low foothills than true mountains at this extremity of the Halcyon range. The second was headed toward her: a pair of canines, one pale white and one with a typical timberwolfish color. Though the hybrid was downwind of them, there was little chance they did not see her -- she stood in the open, a ruinous farmhouse several long yards behind her and nothing between her and these canines, not even a scraggly copse of trees.

She could not return to the farmhouse and would not, even if it was an option -- her pride stood in the way of this. It was one thing running from a threat, but running for no reason was too cowardly for even self-preserving Eris Eternity. So, she stood and waited, hopeful they might perhaps pass her by.

Eris is by Alaine!

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