10-28-2007, 07:48 PM
All welcome 
She'd been surprised to find a light sheen of frost on the grass outside her den that morning. It seemed that winter was takings its harsh hold on the land a bit earlier this year; at least, that's the way it felt to her. She wasn't prepared, that was for sure...since her mate's death time had seemed to fly by, leaving her far behind. It felt like she got up, hunted, returned, and went back to sleep. Life didn't have much meaning.
There was only one thing that was keeping her going right now--the eagle. She'd found it fluttering around on the ground around a mile away from her den. Usually Naniko would have taken this as a hunting opportunity, and she'd certainly needed the meat...but it'd spoken to her. She had trouble killing the ones that tried to talk to her, or the ones that had heard of her before. She used to heal animals in the woods sometimes...this one had known about it.
The eagle, who decreed himself "Errl", was perched next to her fire. He was suffering from the one injury that was really life threatening to a winged creature--a broken wing. He'd told her the story; he had been very hungry, and had gone hunting at night instead of during the day, just to see if he could catch anything, and had hit a tree.
Naniko sat down next to the raptor, tossing him a piece of the rabbit she'd caught. He shook it with his hooked beak, tearing off smaller pieces, which he swallowed. She sighed, eating a bit of the rabbit then looking back at the fire. Was this what she was going to do with her life? She was so bored all the time now. The children were off having their adventures, Soran didn't come by much, Davinci had left...and Conri was gone. What was left for her here?
She'd been surprised to find a light sheen of frost on the grass outside her den that morning. It seemed that winter was takings its harsh hold on the land a bit earlier this year; at least, that's the way it felt to her. She wasn't prepared, that was for sure...since her mate's death time had seemed to fly by, leaving her far behind. It felt like she got up, hunted, returned, and went back to sleep. Life didn't have much meaning.
There was only one thing that was keeping her going right now--the eagle. She'd found it fluttering around on the ground around a mile away from her den. Usually Naniko would have taken this as a hunting opportunity, and she'd certainly needed the meat...but it'd spoken to her. She had trouble killing the ones that tried to talk to her, or the ones that had heard of her before. She used to heal animals in the woods sometimes...this one had known about it.
The eagle, who decreed himself "Errl", was perched next to her fire. He was suffering from the one injury that was really life threatening to a winged creature--a broken wing. He'd told her the story; he had been very hungry, and had gone hunting at night instead of during the day, just to see if he could catch anything, and had hit a tree.
Naniko sat down next to the raptor, tossing him a piece of the rabbit she'd caught. He shook it with his hooked beak, tearing off smaller pieces, which he swallowed. She sighed, eating a bit of the rabbit then looking back at the fire. Was this what she was going to do with her life? She was so bored all the time now. The children were off having their adventures, Soran didn't come by much, Davinci had left...and Conri was gone. What was left for her here?