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Rio Marino · 06-14-2010, 08:05 AM

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Rio had yet to venture beyond the northern border of Phoenix Valley. She never had any reason to, as most of her loved ones resided in the packs to the South — Haven in Cour des Miracles, Mati in Crimson Dreams. On this afternoon, the beaming sunlight shone with such power and vibrancy that the sable girl felt under her very skin, and she longed to take advantage of it. The past few days had brought nothing but rain, with very few breaths of sunny weather between storms. She couldn't possibly let this day go to waste; she would make the best of it.

Before noon had arrived, Rio was already beyond the northern dividing line of her pack's territory, into a pristine forest that she had learned was known as the Dampwoods. Every leaf, rock, and stream was aglow with the sun's light, a luminous spectacle very befitting of early summer. She could almost feel the energy of the plants as they grew, hungry for the sun's life-giving rays after being quenched by days of rainfall.

The small wolfess had traveled along a haphazard path of her own creation, a smile in place even as she panted heavily in the heat of the sun. Two hours had passed before the Dampwoods began to thin, the land morphing gradually — but not so much that she didn't notice it. A strange scent began to permeate the air, and the adolescent could sense that she was leaving the forest for something entirely different.

The edge of the forest gave way to a plain, covered in tall grass, scattered with large boulders well into the distance. She could see tall sticks jutting from the earth, but she was not close enough to see what they were yet. As she neared them, the sooty canine become more and more unsettled. Each stake held a bone-white object at its top, bleached bright by countless months of exposure blazing sun. Her footsteps slowed, jaws parting in shock as she realized what she was looking at. For several moments, all she could do was stare, taken by both wonder and horror. What kind of creature would create this?

They were the skulls of wolves.

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