WC: 433 OOC: This is welcome for all members as this is an aftermath thread. You can decide that your horse, if you have one, is either living or dead. For more information go here: Aniwaya plot thread Post dated February 9th

Everything was happening so quickly, problems were found here and there throughout the pack, and it was as though an endless heap of nothing but uncertain wolves here and there. Liliana had one thing on her mind as she found herself helping yet another pack mate with something. She had to make sure the horses were ok. The snow was so deep, but she’d found she was lighter on her feet in her lupus form… a form she rarely took, and one that showed off her herding ancestry very well.

Bounding through the snow was not too much of a problem to her light form, but it was still a lot of work. She soon found herself by the Large door… or what use to be the door to the stables. Her breath was caught in her lungs as she rushed into the snow spilled stables. The horses had gotten away… at least most of them. The cows even seemed to have gotten out somehow. As she looked into each stall though, jumping on her hind legs to look through the bars each time, she found out that not all the horses got away. One of the workers was laying down stiff… Liliana’s heart sank and she knew she should have been there for them. All of them. She could have taken care of them, made sure they were ok… couldn’t she? That was when she heard something, a soft nickering, and the neighing of a foal… a foal? Liliana’s heart stopped, was she hearing things? She moved to the stall she’d heard it from and looke inside. In there was one of the horses she’d caught but had not had an owner for, laying there with a small foal next to the horse, shivering. Liliana wasted no time. She shifted into her optime form and hurried to find any blankets she could to get the poor baby horse warm. Then she would go looking for the rest of the horses. First she had to make sure the baby didn’t catch anything, or end up like the male in one of the stalls. She felt horrible and in her heart she was worried about Grace, being outside in the weather like that… but they had all been wild once… they would know how to face a storm like this. She finally found something suitable and hurried over to the stalls and opened them, seeing that both the mare and the baby were cold. She hurried to wrap the foal up, and found the blanket for the mother and wrapped her up as well.

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Liliana was still tending to the foal, who she predicted was premature now that she saw, when Nayati came through, she didn’t say anything, neither did he, but they didn’t have to, they knew what was going on and what they would have to do. She watched from the corner of her eye as Nayati left the stables again and called for his horse, she hoped that Iye would come back, he was a great horse, and to lose a companion would be hard enough on Nayati, and wasn’t something she wished upon her mate. She waited as he called again. Her heart knotted up, thinking the worst when she heard a whinny, oh the sound of such a beautiful noise, and she knew it was Nayati’s horse. Nayati raced into the stables and told her of the news, this time she looked him in the face, how could she blame him for any of this? She smiled at him warmly.

Yes I will go with you let me wrap up the foal and I’ll head out with you.

She said, she hoped it would be ok to leave such a fragile creature to the elements, though the wind was slightly blocked… and it was not as hard as it had been before… she’d have to worry about it when she could, right now multiple horses needed them.

Ok I am ready, lets go!

She said standing up after wrapping the foal up , to keep it warm and dry, she moved to her mates side. She smiled at him for helping her, though she wished she could have stayed, though she doubted she could have done anything to prevent much of what had happened to the stables themselves. She would let him lead them as her mind was already elsewhere.

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She was worried for the others, and at the same time the newborn foal, but at that moment the young animal was out of danger and she wanted to find grace, the ponies, sugar, even buck. She wanted to make sure all of her charges were safe and alright… including the stupid cows. She hopped on the back of Iye skillfully, and they were off running through the land to where the first of the few horses were.

Nayati, it’s Sugar and the ponies look!

Liliana pointed in the distance that they were closing. She’d be able to ride sugar, and search for Grace. The ponies looks healthy enough, just like sugar, just cold, really cold. As they slowed to a stop when the got to the horse and ponies Liliana checked over the three animals confirming they were just fine. She nodded happily at the horses and pulled herself up on Sugar. This was not a time to think about who’s horses were whose, especially since she rode all of them to exercise them anyway. She looked at Nayati and thought

Maybe we should get the ponies back to the stables and search more?

She offered, she didn’t want the ponies to just stand here in the cold but she wanted to find the others, there were still a few out there somewhere. She wanted them all safe, here and now. Usually horses stuck together as a herd would, so if Sugar and the ponies were here the others were not too far behind. She turned the horse to look and see if she could find the others, but there was nothing in sight at that moment. Liliana was worried and she looked to Nayati for a little help. He was her stone in uncertain times, and though she relied heavily on him, she knew she couldn’t to most anything here without him.

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Liliana didn’t like the idea of parting from her mate but she decided it was for the best, especially if they were going to find a scared and unwilling horse. She nodded to him and smiled trying to make her own self feel better. It wasn’t as though he were leaving her forever.

I’ll see you soon then.

She turned sugar looking to see if she could spot any tracks, but it seemed they were the only horses around so she moved further out, scanning the quiet land for any of the horses she took care of… what she saw first was a shape too wide to be a horse and she scowled… one of the cows was there, and sure enough since there was one three more were scattered nearby, the snow had been stamped out a little and Liliana rolled her eyes figuring this was where the cows stayed most of the storm. She hurried the horse away, figuring the fat animals would be just fine. They seemed to have found it fine there, and horses tended to move often. Whistling for the mare Liliana continued at a quick trot, but still finding nothing. She knew that her horse was not tame and still wild so it scared her that she probably did run off the second she had the chance, even though Liliana had always given her the chance. Either that or she was not with in earshot. Soon they came up to a few more shapes, this time it was Strawberry, one of the more docile horses, and near her there were two more, one of them Liliana recognized as one of J’adore’s and the other… was Buck, the one she had been having trouble with, and here he was in a stance ready to ward Liliana off his newly made herd.

Come on you don’t want to do this,

Liliana said in a straight voice, her eyes on the stallion, she didn’t feel as confident as she would when Grace was around, but she had to deal with it. She could tell the stallion was in no mood for any “games”. Liliana made no move though. She sat there, if anything Nayati would come with the rope that would help secure the wild horse and get him safely home.