02-04-2008, 03:52 PM
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The peaks weren't visible from inside the forest. Legacy couldn't remember when she'd first seen their assembled rocky faces, but it might have been the first time she ever left Jaded Shadows. As such, the impression she had was still one of unfamiliarity, adventure, and great mystery. How did rock get to be so big? What was up there? The red wolf was as inquisitive as anyone her age, and maybe more than most, and not even the cold air was a deterrent. Walking fast, she didn't pause until, walking with a sheer cliff on one side and the downhill slope on the other, realised the path was blocked by a newly-fallen rockslide. She stared up at the pile of earth and pebbles, biting a lip in annoyance. True, now seven months of age was approaching she was more independent than ever; but there was no scaling a wall of solid, sheer rock - even with hands. And no one would trust their weight to that sliding mass of instability.
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The peaks weren't visible from inside the forest. Legacy couldn't remember when she'd first seen their assembled rocky faces, but it might have been the first time she ever left Jaded Shadows. As such, the impression she had was still one of unfamiliarity, adventure, and great mystery. How did rock get to be so big? What was up there? The red wolf was as inquisitive as anyone her age, and maybe more than most, and not even the cold air was a deterrent. Walking fast, she didn't pause until, walking with a sheer cliff on one side and the downhill slope on the other, realised the path was blocked by a newly-fallen rockslide. She stared up at the pile of earth and pebbles, biting a lip in annoyance. True, now seven months of age was approaching she was more independent than ever; but there was no scaling a wall of solid, sheer rock - even with hands. And no one would trust their weight to that sliding mass of instability.
So she turned around and went back, mumbling to herself darkly for a few moments but this soon gave way to a juxtaposition of cheerful humming. It was almost a relief to be moving away from that solid rock face, for it reminded her of a wall, and that was the last thing Legacy wanted to think of. There were probably myriads of other routes to ascend, but she'd lost interest in climbing now. The view (even here where it was mostly just the mountain itself) was a delight, spreading out like an unrolled map. Seeing a boulder, the were-girl perched herself upon its edge. Looking down and out, into the infinity of air and land she sighed, enraptured.