Even On Cloudy Days

Alder · 02-08-2011, 11:02 AM

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The shine shown weakly through the clouds, keeping the air chilled though the world was grateful for the lack of a harsh wind. Alder walked beside the mare. He had refused to ride her, fearing that his large size would hurt her. Instead he asked her softly to carry a few bags, ropes and leather pouches for the prey that he ventured outside the territory for. The snow made it hard to travel, but it made it easy to see the odd shaped paw prints of the hares that he searched for. Alder had left in the early morning, trudging through snow and ice to hunt for those he lived with. The male missed his mother, her soft voice and constant encouragement, but he was finding that his brother's family was becoming his own. He loved them, creatures he had hardly know a few weeks ago. He had never known his brother's mate until he had left Crimson Dreams, and their children were merely weeks old. But he loved them, helped to protect them, and now hunted for them. It was a sense of purpose that Alder had never known and he knew he was a better wolf for it.

Two rabbits were already strung from the mare's back, her light bay coloring flecked with drifting snow, and Alder knelt in the snow of the Shiloh Hills to examine the new tracks that he had found. The lessons with Niro were helping, and Alder was now keen enough on shifting that he tracked in one form and then changed to another for the chase (that credit could only be given to his youthful energy). Alder's short kept mane resting against his neck, floating in a light breeze as he looked to the horizon and then took up the mare's lead once again and continued forward.

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