D: This is so outdated (I'm just realizing this, fail). Wrap up soon...so we can have another thread immediately? WC - 361
The wind whipped through his coat and Shandom could not help but loose a short, yet enthusiastic, howl to the winter sky. What could be better than this? The Dawner could not remember a time when a smile spread so broadly across his scarred countenance; indeed, he'd only ever been this happy before his vision was partially torn from him and his life forever altered. He could remember laughing like this with Lea, howling in complete and utter animalistic joy. It was before life was entirely fucked up - for lack of a better world - and everything collapsed in ways he didn't think possible. It was a life without two legs when he did not know an alternative, a life that was so much simpler and reeked of wonderful. And yet he'd ruined it all for himself. Shandom would pay for his mistakes for the rest of his years.
But he did not want to dwell on his old realities while he whipped through the cooling air - the day was coming to a close, and soon Shandom would need to return to his pack family. It brought him a little sadness to know that he would not be able to bring Naniko back with him to see the inner workings of New Dawn - it was a place of magic and primitiveness, and he liked it that way. But he wanted to spend more time with her, wanted her to know more about his life, even though it couldn't be that way. She was a leader of her own pack and had her own family to return to. And Shandom? Well, he had New Dawn. Reclusive as they were, he liked it that way and would not compromise the pack's values further than he'd already done.
Shandom could feel her gaining on him, and so in a burst of playful energy the half-blind man whirled around to face her, sinking into a deep and eager play bow. His ears and tail spoke of natural excitement, and in his own joking way he challenged her to come and take his position as (in his opinion, of course) the declared winner.
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