Forever and After

Kansas Sadira · 06-27-2010, 02:28 PM

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dunno why this ended up so long. :o sorry if it's a drag. 300+

His kind had the uncanny ability to know the emotions of fellow pack wolves, without the slightest conversation. Thus, Kansas sensed anticipation. He hadn't seen Anu much over the past few days, and let this knowledge rest at little more than that. The female was concerned about her pregnancy as all women became, leading him to the expectation that her time was near. This expectation was almost tangible, in the electric, gray air of Crimson Dreams' land.

Of course, he had no way of knowing that today was the tawny woman's day. He was resting beneath the porch, where he liked to go sometimes, comforted by the shelter and by the soft, old dirt beneath his body. The snowy male stirred little, but never slept, his ears perpetually perked with instinctual caution. As the morning lengthened, he heard the swinging of the opening door and a surprising call for Savina, given by Mati's frantic voice. Initially Anu did not cross his mind, for he was alarmed by the hysteria in the bronze-furred wolf's voice as it spoke his love's name. He rose to his feet, his pristine coat now covered in earth from his limbs to his belly, but he didn't even bother to shake himself clean.

Savina ascended the porch steps just as he emerged from beneath the porch, sunny-blue eyes wide in his concern. Savi? Is... what...? but she was on a mission, and he knew she wouldn't answer him, perhaps not even hearing him. Kansas knew better than to proceed with his stupefied stuttering, and rather followed her into the house, his steps awkward and unsure but determined. The Colonel paused in the living room, watched his mate enter the little room to the side. He at last realized what was going on, in rush that made him want to bite himself. It was Anu's time to welcome her children into the world. He heard a few soft words exchanged between the good friends form within the little chamber, but did not feel comfortable entering the room to join them. It was not his place to, as a male unrelated to the mother. Instead, he allowed Savina to usher her friend with her infallible hope and strength.

Kansas settled beside the couch where he sat on his haunches. Anu's cries of pain caused a small shudder to shake his body. Perhaps he should have stayed outside altogether, but this was an important event to him. No wolf could resist being present to share the joy of new puppies, even if they were not his own.

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