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- Warren Elliot - 07-15-2009 [html]This post is a bit sucky. D:
[/html] - Anu - 07-16-2009 [html]
hi!
Four paws walked silently through the undergrowth. Black nose to the ground, giving the wolf’s brain all the information that she needed. There had been many changes in the last few days, so many that Anu felt the need to run away. Just for a moment, or a few. Some time to run, to let her head clear. She did not doubt the decision that the two in command had made, but it wasn’t an easy choice. And Anu stood beside Savina, no matter what happened. The midnight female, their new Commander, had not been prepared to take the lead, but she was certainly capable.
There was something that didn’t belong, something that Anu was sure needed to be investigated. Blue eyes looked upwards at the dark sky. What a day to find someone stalking through their territory. Storms had been so frequent that Anu had wanted to take the first moments of a rain-less day and enjoy it. If she had any sense she would turn around and let who ever wanted to pass through, for she figured that was what they must be doing. Anu had found a few wolves doing just that recently, and she found herself becoming more lenient.
She slowed as the stranger’s, a male, scent grew more powerful. But there was something that caught her nose, and drove her to press on with a controlled haste. Blood lingered in the air, slight yet present. Anu found him, a grey hybrid that bore more height then he did width. Anu felt a growl rise in her chest, but kept it at bay. Revealing herself from the landscape, Anu watched him with a heavy look on her features. It was time to be more curious and cautious then aggressive or assertive. Though, the female remain silent and wondered if he knew enough to explain himself.
- Warren Elliot - 07-17-2009 [html] Short, cause I gotta get going to the lake!
[/html] - Anu - 07-17-2009 [html]
short is perfectly fine!
As he had options, so did she. It would be a quick call to announce his intrusion to the rest of her pack, and that he had hunted on their lands. It was a certainly not something that any pack wolf would allow, prey being a main reason for a pack’s formation. The female had been made to think heavily on all those reasons wolves came together, pups, territory, prey.
Her second was to let him explain, as his posture did immediately. There was a small bit of submission, enough that Anu could hold onto it and hold back her territorial rage. Things hadn’t been perfect, as they once had, for the past month or so. It made her jumpy, agitated and worried. All those things could bring another side out of the peaceful fey.
His words saved him, and Anu suddenly forgot that she was strung so very tight. “Seems that you’ve crossed right over it.” Anu spoke with a light tone. What was a hare to them? It could be so much worse. I hope its not to hunt.” Again her tone was friendly though her words were one of warning. Perhaps the hare resided beyond Crimson Dreams, and she was sure he could talk himself out of this trouble.
- Warren Elliot - 07-20-2009 [html]
[/html] - Anu - 07-20-2009 [html]
i like Warren.... xD
With those words the male redeemed himself. Anu could appreciate a humble word, and a calm explanation. She had been too overrun with those that felt that it was there right to walk upon their lands with no question. There had even been one hybrid that attacked those who asked him his reason for being here. But this male Anu could tolerate, and even happily so.
Anu had figured that something like that might have happened, and it was only her nature to believe him. She could see the honesty in others, and trusted that instinct. To show that she no longer saw him as a threat the woman sat, her tail coming to hug her side, to fall at her toes. “We all have those that get away,” A soft smile graced her face and Anu felt a genuine understanding. When she had been young she had hunted deer on another’s lands. They had been generous to her, letting her leave with her life.
“and I can understand you reluctance to let him go.” Blue eyes looked at the large male, but found nothing intimidating about him and sat with confidence. “You belong to no one?” He didn’t smell of any pack, making the need to keep his kill much more important.
- Warren Elliot - 07-22-2009 [html]Yay! I like Anu, too. Oh, and sorry for the wait!
[/html] - Anu - 07-23-2009 [html]
And so she was right, he had no home. A lone wolf was half dead, in her mind. There was no other reason for existence then to belong with a pack and live that life. Dead did not always mean decaying, but dead in another sense. Anu had been gone, alone and a wanderer, and while she was a lone wolf she had lost many things. They had died and left her. It wasn’t until she sought the comfort and the community of the pack that they were reborn. It did not mean he was less, but she could not help but feel he was lost.
Blue eyes looked into his as he spoke his name, and the woman responded with a calm and smooth tone. “Anu.” She let her name fill the air, sure that he would remember it as she would his. The female was fair with names and for a reason unknown she liked his. It sounded human, unlike that of many she had known. She was certain that no human had been called her name, Celtic and the name of a goddess. No human could take the name of one they worshiped.
“This is Crimson Dreams land.” she spoke as a warning as well as pure information. A packwolf had that right, unlike a loner Anu could own this land and do what she please while on it. And because it came naturally she smiled and questioned him with a friendly voice. “Are you only passing through? Or do you have business here in ‘Souls?”
- Warren Elliot - 07-28-2009 [html]
[/html] - Anu - 07-31-2009 [html]
The dead hare Warren had slaughtered sat between them. Anu fought to forget that it sat there, leaving it for the loner. The prey that lived within their borders was plentiful and larger then the loners rabbit. Anu would be happy to let the male have it, even if it went against every instinct. She had once held a certain place for loners, or any stranger at her border and it was not a happy one. But their problems had turned inward, and Anu could no longer place so much energy on the scrutiny of passer byres. Warren was nice, or at least her first impression was such.
The woman listened to his plans, a rough sketch of what he had in mind for his future. It was rough indeed. It didn’t sound like he had family that he searched for, as many did. The family lines in the land of ‘Souls were long and more intertwined then a ball of yarn. The woman was glad to be of a different decent and from far away, for fear of courting a cousin was a very real threat for many. At least did not hint to her that he was looking for anyone, just a place to stay. And it seemed like nothing more. “Then you will be our neighbor.” She commented with a light voice, wondering if he would be chasing prey into her backyard often. But a friendship between another strong male would not hurt her pack and Anu would allow it. “We have a carpenter, Ehno. Befriend him, and he might be willing to help with the work.” Her eyes went to the hare, a perfect sort of peace offering for such a need. |