The warning call had remained unanswered and no other creature of the night had yet dared to make a sound. The deafening silence stretching out as the ghost in the darkness seem to move closer. The wolf stood still as stone, ears pressed forwards searching for even the faintest sound of the silent, approaching predator. A shadow enveloped in black, it was hard to get a clear picture of what it was that was out there, stalking her slowly from upwind. Never before had she felt so completely and utterly blind and cut off from her senses.
She knew it was a cat and while she nearly the height of even the largest of the beast, she did not have the mass nor the muscle to fend off such an adversary. Even still she held less fear for this beast than she did for her own kind, but fear was something she had long ago lost. No longer did she fear the end, she had begun to wait for it. A single word was spoken from the darkness. The shadow a slightly clearer outline now. She shrunk back from the ragged and raspy voice, as it struck her like a bolt. Aged and worn with disuse, it still struck a cord. As if she had heard it once in a dream, long ago. Her mind reeled, grasping for answers to the feeling in her core. "Leave", it had told her and she found her self still unable to move in the right direction. Again and inevitably she moved forward again, not stopping til the creature came into plain sight.
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