Hollow and Alone

StarHowler · 08-21-2010, 04:18 PM

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For Samir<3

The air was thick and cool as the twilight hours took hold of the land. It was time for the changing of guard as night would slowly give way to day. For now though, it was not quite either as the large fem began the short trek back to her den. Her frame still as massive as it had always been, though her once filled out form was now lithe and bare boned. Her pelt dull and faded, though the faint purple cast of her back, that seemed more a trick of light than any true hue, still glistened faintly in the growing light. Everything about her had seemed to dim and dull with the passage of time. Even her eyes had a hollowed look to them. The lights were on, but no one was home.

In some ways she was lost and her mind had drifted far from where her body now was. Her spirit broken and hope for any sort of future was lost. She was nothing more than a primal creature now, driven solely by instinct. Without the desire for life, it was instinct alone that kept the body alive. She had searched for the answers to questions that had plagued her since her youth. A truth that in the end had destroyed her. Of all the thoughts and all the scares, nothing pained her as deeply as the sense of regret she felt for the one she had left behind.

There was an odd feeling in the night air, almost like it felt just before a rain. Kind of, but different. Lungs took a deep breath, causing ribs to show under the coarse coat of hair. A certain feeling within her caused her to halt. A slight flutter in the stomach, a nervous feeling that caused the hair along her back to raise ever so slightly. Ears heard nothing, eyes saw nothing but something told her she was not alone.

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