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[html] Back dated to July 19, because that feels like a better date for this. *shrug* Thread starts out for the first post in CdM, but they leave the pack lands into Ethereal Eclipse - feel free to make that happen in your post J. Word Count :: 400+ The land had been kissed by summer, and today was no different than each day for the last week straight. The Earth lay comfortable and complacent in the cradle of warm sunlight, life moved on like normal. It was a beautiful season to raise a family in.
Orin awoke early that morning as a tendril of sunlight seeped through the window and tapped her on the face. Her golden eyes opened slowly, squinting against the sudden light for a moment as yellow orbs flashed in the light. She lay there, a soft smile coming to her muzzle. The house was... silent. She raised her arms above her head, stretching though still laying in bed, and rolled over... and met the attentive stare of three pairs of eyes. She looked at them, surprised that the puppies were awake but hadn't made a noise, and then she giggled. “What are you lot doing up so early?” Her only response was a sudden onslaught of prodding noses and wagging tails.
The puppies lurched forward as one unit, nipping playfully at her. She yelped and giggled back, and tried to squirm away until she wriggled right off the side of the bed. That did not stop the puppies though, and one by one they hopped off of the bed and landed on their mother. Luckily it wasn't too tall of a bed or else it might have hurt, but instead the onslaught of mini wolves was little more than a cute-attack.
“Babies, what, give me a minute to wake up!” She pleaded uselessly, and everyone knew she didn't really mean for them to stop. She pawed at Vladmir with an open palm and sent the boy rolling away, then yanked the sheet off of the bed and covered all three puppies. That was her chance to make a break for it, and she hopped up and pranced out of the room while her brood figured out how to get out from under the sheet.
“Mars? Mars! Your children are awake and full of bees.” she said as she looked down the hallway, and walked toward the living room. She headed over to a window first and looked out at the bright, beautiful morning. “You know what? I think it's a good day for an outing. A picnic maybe. Perhaps we could hunt for the pups.” The sky was bright without a cloud in sight, and the sun was warm and inviting. It would be a great day for a hunt, and the forest just outside the Court would be perfect. Then their children could see what really went into finding food – the old fashioned way. Of course, they would really just be planted in one spot while Mars and Orin did all the work, but they could at least see and taste real, fresh meat just after the kill.
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Location: Ethereal Eclipse
Date: ~19 July (Backdated)
Weather: Sunny, hot
Time: Late Morning
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[html] Left it a bit open so we can say Amon either comes upon them, or the boar veers off and he follows and is gone while this takes place. Word Count :: 700+ As soon as Mars entered the home she could smell the woodsy scent of the hunt on him, and knew what he’d been up to. For one short beat she worried that the pair may have already felled their prey and that the babes would not see their parents hunt this morning, but soon realized that wasn’t the case. She looked down at the sheet of wriggling puppies and then set them on the floor with a soft bump, and one by one flailing limbs began to untangle themselves from the mess. Svetlana was the smartest one, waiting for her brother and sister to be free so they didn’t knot her up in it while she struggled, and then she just walked out of the pile. Orin smiled at her smart little girl.
“Of course, he’s one of our own,” she nodded. Orin had done her best to accept Amon and Paz as part of their family, because whoever had fathered them – Mars or Bart – they were still a part of him and he was a part of her. She waved to Amon when she walked outside with her brood following on her heels, Vladmir attached to her tail.
She nodded at Mars’s instruction and mounted Senorita, then let Amon hand her the pups. She balanced them abroad the mare’s back. They had done this before and thus far always executed horseback riding without any babies falling off, so long as they held still – which they did, for fear of falling off – but she would have to guide the mare slower than Mars could go with Vox.
The morning’s golden sun shone down warm tendrils on the family as they made their way to the borders, following Mars and Amon’s lead as they tracked the boar that they had injured earlier. Orin was a little worried, because boar were known to rage and fight more than deer. Oh, a deer would fight when you were on top of it, but boar were downright crazy, and would turn and run AT the predator. They were outside of the Court borders when they finally closed in on the animal’s trail, and when Orin dismounted and retrieved her puppies she found a large fallen log to perch them on. She hadn’t known boar to ever climb or leap.
“You three stay put and be good,” she said firmly, looking into their eyes and wagging a finger to punctuate her point. She meant business, and she was using the Mommy voice. Almost as if rehearsed, three little butts sat obediently atop the log. “This is a special day, and it is a privilege because we love you and we think you’re ready. We’re going to hunt, and it sounds like the item on the menu is a boar that your Daddy and brother were tracking earlier. Now boar aren’t like deer, they can charge. We won’t bring it too close to you but you have to stay on this log so I know you’re safe. If it gets away from us, it can’t get you here. Understood?” A trio of excited heads bobbed up and down. “Good babies.” She gave them each a nuzzle and a kiss, and then turned around to Mars.
By now they could hear the sounds of the boar crashing through the brush in the distance. Amon was already herding it toward them. “Oh no, I wanted time to change. I wanted to show them in Lupus.” She said, but unless the animal veered off course she would not have time to shift. Still, her role in this would be executed in a similar fashion in any form. Amon was to chase it to them, because Orin was light and nimble she would distract it with nips and dodge tusks and ultimately keep it busy while Mars closed in for the kill.
Excited, her tail lashed happily as she pranced past Mars and away from their puppies to find the ideal place in the woods. She was still within sight, and she gauged the air and the sounds to try to surmise the boar’s exact path and where she should be when she needed to surprise it and slow it’s flight so Mars could take it down.
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