09-18-2009, 05:02 AM
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| http://digital-bonsai.com/katew/rp/kae/kae_disorder.jpg); background-position: bottom center; background-repeat:no-repeat;"> The cave was dim compared to the brilliance outside, and the hybrid's searing single eye had to blink several times to become adjusted to the different lighting. When she did, she was happy to see merry green eyes shining back at her. The coyote woman had already grown used to the sight of Fatin in her weakened and injured state, but it hurt her no less. There was still that violent thing creeping and crawling around down in her belly and tingling along her spine, threatening to fill her chest and consume her head to toe, driving her to hunt down the creatures who had done this to her lovely woman one by one until their blood ran in rivers across the dry ground. Were she a younger creature she would not have kept him at bay so easily, that dark part of her that had lived there her whole life, at least as far back as she remembered. Kaena had not acquired her demon; she had been with the grizzled coyote always, waking and sleeping and breathing at the same time. She gave ancient canine strength, but she was not Kaena's friend nor her ally. She would tear her family apart in an instant given the chance. She saw no difference between Lykoi and enemy, no difference at all. Her only purpose and her only drive was to destroy. Striding inside, the hybrid woman did not gaze around the cave's familiar walls. Everything was in its proper place, moreso now that the russet she-wolf was here as well. Kaena's single golden eye fell on the thin, scratchy wool blanket she had procured from the city and wished she had procured something better. Everything about her cave and her meager possessions, it was all too plain, too sorry for the lovely woman before her. Kaena almost resolved to lay the raccoon down then and there and stomp off to the mansion to find a mattress and drag it back here. The grizzled hybrid was alright with sleeping on the ground, in the open air, on the elevated slab of rock with her flat, lifeless pillow and that scratchy blanket, but that wasn't good enough for Fatin, not by a long shot. The grizzled hybrid frowned as she approached, her sable ears half-mast as she handed the raccoon over to the russet woman. "I'm glad you're awake." There was tension in the grizzled hybrid's face, an anxiousness which was just barely concealed beneath the knotted scar tissues crossing her face. There were several new additions since she'd last gazed on the russet woman, the crossed shape on her face, half of it created by Salvaged and the other half added by Haku. The silvery coyote did smile and chuckle softly at the red wolf's joke, she did not speak again for a moment or two . The coyote wanted the russet wolf to eat, to regain her strength, to be herself and whole again. She could not stand the sight of her so weakened and so less radiant than she usually was. Kaena loved her no less, but it hurt her to see Fatin in such a state. After a few long minutes, the hybrid again spoke, even her low voice echoing off of the cave's empty walls. "Are you comfortable here? There's the mansion, there are beds and I would stay with you there if you would rather there than here." She would not be hurt if Fatin was more comfortable elsewhere; she was hurt and she needed to rest and recover as best she could, no matter what. Kaena cursed herself for not bringing Fatin there in the first place, but this was home for the silvery hybrid, the first place she had thought to take her. |