New Beginnings

Rosario Duran · 07-09-2010, 08:54 PM

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Word Count: 763, Points: 5 ;; Sorry this took sooo long.

Several moments after her deep, meaningful admission of her terrible longing, Rosario stared off into the distance. The depths of her optics became blurred and unfocused as memories danced before them – memories of times long past that had made her into who she was today. Really, her life could’ve taken off in so many other directions if she had just made wiser choices. Rosario didn’t consider the fact that everyone had their woes and that someone just might understand her anguish. She liked to believe that in another course of life she would be happy and carefree. The grass is always greener on the other side, as they say.

The coyote’s vision snapped back into focus on her companion’s face as Yuki began to speak again. One might say her meaningful words of love confused Rosario, who hadn’t experienced passion of that sort before. Never having a lover, a fling, or even a crush during the brutal reality of her harsh upbringing had made her rather inept at the whole thing. The fast paced lifestyle, no nonsense attitude, and complete isolation from her pack members had only allowed Rosario to develop affection for her mother and brothers. Besides, she was always too busy trying to prove to the world that she wasn’t the useless bastard child that she was labeled to be. That sort of agenda made it rather difficult to waste precious time on silly pursuits of the heart.

Though related to her in Spanish, Rosario responded quietly in English for Yuki’s sake. ”I do no wish to hold orr touch unless it es to kill rrabit forr dinerr,” was her firm answer. She punctuated the supreme importance of the comment with a curt nod of her head, which yet again set the little silver bell to its pleasant clanging. Then she gave Yuki a rather odd look and asked, ”What es point to that? It only waste time.” Having not had parents that were loving and affectionate to each other, Rosario had never witnessed the joys that mate-hood could bring. The whole thing completely baffled the poor, young canine.

The next comment also brought a slight chuckle from Rosario. The laughter was light and airy with the smoothness of pure silk against the ears. Such a sound could be considered a rarity when issued from an uptight creature like her. It was over as quick as it came, carried into the past by moment after unending moment. ”Who es trruly norrmal, afterr all?” She lilted with a grin that showed the white rows of her small, needle-like teeth. Normalcy was hard to define in the wild world that the two lived in. It was even harder to achieve, and nigh impossible to maintain.

No matter the situation or reasoning behind them, quick movements always caused Rosario to jump into alertness, as she startled quite easily. One moment she was allowing herself to slowly become at ease in the presence of her rescuer, and the next she was on her feet and ready to defend herself. Yuki’s quick response to the shrill call of a sea gull was enough to completely raise all of the coyote’s walls again, slightly damaging some of the progress that had been made. For several moments, Rosario’s head was down to protect the vulnerable flesh of her throat as she angled her body away in order to open up a path of escape. She kept the majority of her weight off of her injured right leg and tucked it protectively beneath her body. Several tense seconds passed before she realized it had been a false alarm and began to loosen her muscles. However, the damage had been done.

Rosario squinted her eyes a bit, once again guarded, as she stared into the yellow and blue gaze that was focused on her. There was no threat to be found in their depths, only concern for the injury. True, it was doubtful she would make it back to the Inferni lands tonight. The smell off her blood would probably attract some larger predator or a hungry Luperci that would finish off the wounded coyote. Not good. She rolled her shoulders a bit to work off some of the knots that had accumulated over the stressful months before looking around at the beach. She hadn’t even noticed the shortening of her name in light of everything else. ”This es trrue. Do you know any place, senorita Yuki? I am no farrmiliarr with this arrea,” Rosario admitted. She added shortly afterwards, ”I can no swim. The salt water will irrrritate wound.”

Big thank you to Sie for the beautiful table!

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