04-12-2008, 09:23 PM
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Breath coming fast, sides heaving, and nose to the ground, Hanna tracked her sister's scent. It was accompanied by another scent as well, but the way the identities were shed, Hanna had pretty much determined that the two were traveling partners. So it was not the proximity of a stranger to her sister, but the proximity she'd had with her sister before the Great Fire--and how near she'd come to death. She'd taken too much time packing some of her rarer herbs and grabbing her knives. She'd been hurrying along when she heard the call of Colibri, but as she'd followed, her path was suddenly barred by an enormous wall of fire. The black female had weaved her way around the debris as quickly and fluidly as she could, but she found herself walled in on all sides. Desperation clouding her senses, Hanna had stepped back against one side of the firewall, then raced forward and leaped through the other side, singeing most of the fur from her head, back, sides, stomach, and tail. The way had been clear from there, luckily, and the now 'shaved' woman had fled over the western mountain range, avoiding water, ashamed at her appearance.
Stopping for the first time in ages, Hanna drank her fill from a stream, then cocked her head and listened. She heard voices. Her heart nearly stopped as she realized that one was her sister, one was the other scent's owner, and a third? Was masculine. She hurried on, then burst into the clearing where stood her sister, another white female, and... on the ground, a male, white and black in color. "Colibri!"
Breath coming fast, sides heaving, and nose to the ground, Hanna tracked her sister's scent. It was accompanied by another scent as well, but the way the identities were shed, Hanna had pretty much determined that the two were traveling partners. So it was not the proximity of a stranger to her sister, but the proximity she'd had with her sister before the Great Fire--and how near she'd come to death. She'd taken too much time packing some of her rarer herbs and grabbing her knives. She'd been hurrying along when she heard the call of Colibri, but as she'd followed, her path was suddenly barred by an enormous wall of fire. The black female had weaved her way around the debris as quickly and fluidly as she could, but she found herself walled in on all sides. Desperation clouding her senses, Hanna had stepped back against one side of the firewall, then raced forward and leaped through the other side, singeing most of the fur from her head, back, sides, stomach, and tail. The way had been clear from there, luckily, and the now 'shaved' woman had fled over the western mountain range, avoiding water, ashamed at her appearance.
Stopping for the first time in ages, Hanna drank her fill from a stream, then cocked her head and listened. She heard voices. Her heart nearly stopped as she realized that one was her sister, one was the other scent's owner, and a third? Was masculine. She hurried on, then burst into the clearing where stood her sister, another white female, and... on the ground, a male, white and black in color. "Colibri!"
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