06-20-2009, 02:52 PM
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| http://digital-bonsai.com/katew/rp/kae/ ... tblood.jpg); background-position:top center; background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:fixed; padding-top:248px; padding-left:25px; padding-right:25px; padding-bottom:10px;"> mall-caps;">Out of Character For Rachi! Set in Beast's Grin. mall-caps;">In Character The coyote was pretty far from home. She'd traveled most of the night and part of day, cutting past the city on her way around a pack territory. She did not know the pack and she wanted to stay the hell away from them—they smelled like they were many members strong, and she was just one canine by her lonesome. The Lykoi gave them a very wide berth, cutting through the suburbs of the city but skipping past the heart of it. Those areas would have to be explored later when she had lots and lots of time to kill. For now, she just planned on taking a jog around the territories—it might take her the better part of a few days, but she had at least told Gabriel she might go instead of just disappearing. She was a stranger and a newcomer to this place, and she needed to learn the lay of the lands. She had cut through a rather large forest, sticking almost exactly to the coast as she went, but keeping within the treeline the whole way. The place reminded her of the Haunted Forest, though its shadowy canopy was not the thick, soupy mist that seemed permanent on the ground of that grove. There were far more streams here, too—the hybrid had to cross a rather wide one that dumped into the ocean, picking her way across the silty, sandy bottom of it and watching tiny brackish-water fish flit between her legs, highly agitated that she was disturbing them so. She had stopped after crossing the delta, and took a brief nap to recharge herself, curling up into a tiny ball of gray fur in the underbrush. Just after leaving the thickest part of the forest, Kaena had come across another beach—she mounded a particularly large, low-lying hill and came across a low-lying beach. There were several dead sea-creatures being torn apart by gulls, and she could see the movements of more frantic swimmers in some of the tidepools, trapped until the ocean rose again. She looked over the beach, and in the distance she saw a massive cruise ship, beached and grounded for however long it took for the thing to decay into dust. There were long, coppery streaks of rust along its sides, and several gaping hopes in the sides of the boat. The Lykoi thought that looked interesting to warrant an exploration, so she headed forward, splashing through one of the tide pools and frightening a few flat, dull fish into a frenzy. She snapped at their tails and missed, the agile creature just darting outside of her reach. The ashen hybrid continued on her way, picking along the sand as she went. This beach was less rocky than that of The Waste, and its grain of sand was somewhat finer than Inferni's beach. She could not see the other side of the vast bay from here. The coyote had begun to detect the scent of a wolf pack, faint and far-off in the distance. After a few minutes of walking through the midday sun, obscured by a haze of clouds, the Lykoi reached the ship. It was even more massive up close than it was in the distance, and Kaena carefully picked her way around patches of earth that were stained vermilion by rust from the ship, heading for one of the jagged holes in the belly of the ship. She found it did no good, as it only opened up to an empty area of more rusted steel. On her exit, she spied a walkway. It seemed to lead to the deck, so the Lykoi headed up a slope and toward the end it, where there seemed to be a sort of ticket stand. The door was ajar, and the Lykoi stuck her head in, finding the bones of a long-dead human curled up in the corner. There wasn't much else of interest, so the silver coyote hybrid headed for the start of the sloping bridge. She had traveled in Lupus form, but now that she was in a place where she might find malleable objects, she shifted to her Optime form. After just a moment she was two-legged and had opposable thumbs. She immediately loosened the small pack she kept strapped over her back, having tightened it prior to her shift to keep it from banging around on her body as she walked as a four-legged beast. |