06-30-2009, 03:32 AM
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| http://digital-bonsai.com/katew/rp/kae/kae_disorder.jpg); background-position: bottom center; background-repeat:no-repeat;"> Private for whoever calls it in this thread first. This would be the aggression thread. :3 The hybrid had ventured out of Inferni again, deciding it might do to check out some of the forests of the surrounding area. Inferni was well-protected and far from the closest pack—she'd determined those were Phoenix Valley and Dahlia de Mai, both roughly the same distance from Inferni's borders. There were plenty of miles of woods between the two, though, and Kaena felt secure enough. There were no packs to the north, and Inferni stood in the way of those territories, meaning anyone who didn't want to traipse right through claimed territory had to wander across Halcyon Mountain in order to reach the upper territories. Kaena liked it a lot that way—if they found any special sort of resources in those territories, they would be easy to annex or protect, whichever Gabriel decided to do. These woods were quiet, though her sable ears could detect the noises and movements of many different animals in the trees and on the ground all around her. The thick coat of leaves and other debris on the forest floor deadened much of the sound, and though the forest was bursting with life, the Lykoi meandered through it undetected. Her footfalls were soft, and crouched for a moment, leaning forward onto her hands to smell the ground. There was an old scent of a wolf here. He was vaguely familiar, but Kaena could not place him. They had met somewhere before, she knew that much—but with just a fading smell and no face to accompany it, she had little hope of identifying the wolf. It was probably no one—perhaps someone she'd simply smelled before. Continuing on, the Lykoi ambled forward again, coming to a break in the trees as they began to thin out. She could see Halcyon Mountain in the distance, and she knew beyond that lay the former territories. She wondered whose bones had burned in that fire, and how many names and faces would be lost forever. It hadn't changed a thing about Inferni—but all of those wolf packs she had known for all her existence in 'Souls had been obliterated, unable to survive the trek over the mountain range. For that, she was glad—it meant the force that bound the coyote clan together was far stronger than the bonds the wolves had forged. The miscreants, the monsters, the loner, unfriendly creatures who hardly took to the social life like their wolf cousins—they had survived the flame and smoke and the wolves had not. Something in Kaena swelled, that familiar sense of pride for her clan. She stopped on the edge of this almost meadow, pausing to again smell the ground. There was no scent of wolf here, though she could clearly smell Gabriel here. She was not so far from Inferni's territory, so it was not improbable that he had passed through this spot in recent weeks. It had begun to drizzle again, the mid-afternoon break in the near-constant rain coming to a sudden close. The threatening clouds hadn't stopped her from taking a stroll out of the territory, but the threat of worse storms looming over the mountain was enough to give her pause. She did not want to be caught in a severe type of storm so far out from the shelter of Inferni's caves. |