07-31-2009, 05:44 PM
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"No...I'm not alone any more. Not while you're here. It's nice to have someone to worry about you sometimes..." She was usually the one who worried. Naniko hadn't had anyone in her life to worry about her lately, unless Mati and Brooklyn counted. Family was always supposed to worry about family, though; she was almost constantly thinking about where Salem was or if Haven was doing alright in his new pack. She wanted to go see him...but she didn't want him to see her as a disappointment. Maybe that was why he had left in the first place, without even telling his own mother where he was going. He was disappointed in her. She swept a few leaves and branches out of the cave so that nothing else would catch on fire except for the things that they needed. Even if she didn't have her backpack with her she always had her two fire-stones, holes drilled inside of them, tied tightly up to her wrist.
She reached down, biting through the pieces of twine to release the two rocks. Once they were free she looked out over the beach for Ehno, waiting for his return with the firewood. As she stood at the cave's mouth a nice breeze swept through, ruffling her white fur and sending the little bits of sand and debris that she had swept from the cave up into the air. The leaves were tossed up toward the heavens and began to spin on their way down, their dark shadows contrasting completely against the purples, pinks, and oranges of the sunset sky.
What was left of the sunset was beautiful, and she watched as it slowly faded into more regal purples and blues, then to darker blues and blacks. Clouds were beginning to gather overhead, telling her that rain would be falling shortly, and she broke from her daze to look back out over the beach. Ehno was coming back toward her with the wood and arrived at the cave's entrance just as the first raindrops began to fall. She held out her hand to catch a few of them then picked up a few pieces of wood and headed inside to start the fire. She got one going without much trouble then sat back as it grew, feeding it more wood as it got a bigger. There was something that she had wanted to ask him, but something that she didn't know if she wanted to know. "I...Is Cambria okay?" She questioned quietly.
"No...I'm not alone any more. Not while you're here. It's nice to have someone to worry about you sometimes..." She was usually the one who worried. Naniko hadn't had anyone in her life to worry about her lately, unless Mati and Brooklyn counted. Family was always supposed to worry about family, though; she was almost constantly thinking about where Salem was or if Haven was doing alright in his new pack. She wanted to go see him...but she didn't want him to see her as a disappointment. Maybe that was why he had left in the first place, without even telling his own mother where he was going. He was disappointed in her. She swept a few leaves and branches out of the cave so that nothing else would catch on fire except for the things that they needed. Even if she didn't have her backpack with her she always had her two fire-stones, holes drilled inside of them, tied tightly up to her wrist.
She reached down, biting through the pieces of twine to release the two rocks. Once they were free she looked out over the beach for Ehno, waiting for his return with the firewood. As she stood at the cave's mouth a nice breeze swept through, ruffling her white fur and sending the little bits of sand and debris that she had swept from the cave up into the air. The leaves were tossed up toward the heavens and began to spin on their way down, their dark shadows contrasting completely against the purples, pinks, and oranges of the sunset sky.
What was left of the sunset was beautiful, and she watched as it slowly faded into more regal purples and blues, then to darker blues and blacks. Clouds were beginning to gather overhead, telling her that rain would be falling shortly, and she broke from her daze to look back out over the beach. Ehno was coming back toward her with the wood and arrived at the cave's entrance just as the first raindrops began to fall. She held out her hand to catch a few of them then picked up a few pieces of wood and headed inside to start the fire. She got one going without much trouble then sat back as it grew, feeding it more wood as it got a bigger. There was something that she had wanted to ask him, but something that she didn't know if she wanted to know. "I...Is Cambria okay?" She questioned quietly.