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Anu · 04-20-2011, 10:36 AM

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The water pulled her, short silver tipped fur sweeping along with the current's flow and causing the cold water to seep into the thick undercoat and touch her skin. It was surprising, how strong the river truly was. Or was it that Anu was simply too weak to stand against it. She looked up at Savi, blue eyes watching and waiting for her to fall from the rocks. It was not safe, and the alphess needed to come down from such heights before the tragedies continued with the fall of their leader.

Anu felt her paws slip on the river's bottom, and she looked down stream to see that she had been unknowingly moving along with the current. Her eyes now away from Savina, she now began to fight against the flow of water and tried to get to the bank. It was hard, too hard for her aging bones and winter-thin body, she struggled and fought until she was no longer just walking along the bottom of the river but swimming against it.

There was pressure against her neck, but she could not see what was touching. Her eyes had fallen shut against the cold spray, her teeth gritting and her determination waning. She was being pull, but she had already known that. Though this was in another direction, but the wolfess was too physically drained to fight against it. She kept her body above the water's surface, but did not know that it was the black wolf that helped her until she felt the bank against her thrashing paws. She opened her eyes, seeing the land and pulling desperately with her paws until she was out of the water and onto the equally cold earth. She did not focus her gaze to the other female, who had laid against the ground with her chest rising and falling furiously to catch her breath. Anu simply did the same, her heart pounding in her ears and her lungs tight and burning.

Minutes that felt like hours passed between them, silence their only other companion. It took some time for the river's voice to rejoin her, as her heart calmed and it's pace becoming normal once more. Anu waited for her to say something, but there was nothing and she wondered if Savina was still there. She looked, seeing that the wolfess had not moved. Her head rose, life and feeling returning slowly.

Anu had risked her own life to bring Savin down from the rocks, but in turned caused more trouble for both of them. She felt foolish, but an anger had been sparked in the normally tranquil chest of the Praetor. Still Anu simply spoke two words of appreciation with an empty voice. "Thank you"

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