The world that surrounded her grew dark and silent. The calm before the storm. Though, it was not weather that blew across the lands. The quiet was deafening and it in itself was a warning that all was not right. The silence spoke to her and still the silvered fem did not move. As if it was fate itself that kept her feet rooted to the ground. Staring, unseeing into the darkness. The hair along her neck and back standing on end as the deep, unfamiliar call cut through the darkness. Ears swiveling in the direction of its source. Eyes quickly followed, searching for what lay just beyond their sight. A soft woof was huff from her lungs.
The fact that the call was clearly not canine was of some relief. Having suffered the most at the hands of her own species, it was her own kind that she feared worse than any other creature that might go bump in the night. She left the warning unanswered as she stared in the direction of its maker. The tension in the air was palpable and while a tiny voice in the back of her head told her she should leave she found she could not moved her limbs.
The seconds ticked by more like minutes. Every instinct in her body was telling the wolf to turn and leave. Yet it was a step forward that her body made, as if it knew what the mind could no longer comprehend. It was just one step, but that one step said that she would not simply turn away. A glimmer of light, and the wolf squinted trying to make out the dark silhouette painted on a black canvas. The slight and occasional glint of eye shine was all she could make out from the darkness.
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