10-11-2009, 02:38 PM
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With Kaena taking her duties up energetically (especially for a woman her age), Gabriel was no longer so startled to find strangers roaming Inferni. She did not need to call him and alert him to every newcomer, and it was not as if he sought them out. Inferni survived mostly because its members were able to exist independently. Were they to be truly co-dependent, as the wolves were, they would die. Not one of the coyotes in his clan had been exclusively pampered there—even though Gabriel and his brothers were both born into Inferni, they had all grown up outside of its borders. So in a way, he supposed, what his children were doing was not uncommon. It still kept him up at nights, feeling that ache of loss, but each day made it less painful. Were they never to return, as many of his family had proven time and time again, it would not be half-so terrible. A flurry of noise, followed by the unmistakable shriek of a rabbit, told Gabriel that he was no longer alone. Turning his path towards the source, he was greeted first by the scent of blood, and then by a tawny boy that might have been his son a year ago. Though he was in no way hungry, Gabriel’s raptor eyes remained focused on both the boy and the kill. He was interested in the youth, if only for the fact he did not know him. Obviously, he was a member of the clan. Something else, though, something else about him seemed familiar. |