Now that they were out on their own, she didn't see the value of being in a pack so much. Tawny and she could bring down larger prey animals with the two of them, and Wretch was in the process of trying to design some rudimentary tools that both canines could use for hunting purposes. This really was the life, just eating whenever she felt like eating and doing what she pleased. She had always stressed about certain aspects of her pack life. If she was doing her duty correctly, if she was doing well by Saul and Cerne Rise and following all of the pack laws. The fact that there were no laws out in these territories amazed her. Canines could do whatever they wanted. She could go and destroy a house and no one would be upset over it because nobody owned it! She could take things from wherever she wanted and add them to her personal collection. And she could do whatever she wanted to whoever she wanted and not get into too much trouble over it unless Tawny found out. She hadn't harmed any other canines since she'd left Ichika and had no desire to...but if she needed to, she would!
The girl had parted ways with Tawny to go and test some of the weapons that she had made more recently. She'd designed a spear that she hoped would help them bring down some bigger prey animals and was in the process of working on some smaller obsidian daggers and arrows. The humans had left behind some objects in the city, but not all of them would work for her purposes. She wanted something that she could throw at a prey animal from a distance...and the kitchen knives that she and Caspa had found together weren't really designed for that purpose. She carried a few of them on her belt regardless, but they were more for the use of preparing animal skins than hunting the creatures themselves. That is, unless one were to attack from the trees and jump onto the backs of the creatures.
A crashing sound nearby alerted her to some sort of prey, and she turned to head in that direction. Not very long afterward, a howl came. What the...perhaps this creature wasn't something she would want to eat after all. She mused a bit to herself as she padded quickly to the tree; she had recognized the voice immediately as being Tawny's, and was surprised to find that the girl had been so close to her friend's location! Had Tawny been stalking her, or something? She chuckled a bit to herself as she came nearer. Tawny wasn't too far up now...had she fallen or something? Hey, you OK? She called, frowning in puzzlement. What had her friend been doing up there, anyway?
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