11-07-2007, 01:24 AM
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She put her paw into the icy water, then pulled it back out. It was pleasantly warm today, compared to the last week or so, but the water was still freezing. She didn't know how the fish could handle it; she could see them swimming sluggishly below, just out of reach. Didn't fish migrate? Salmon did, she knew that. One of the shadows became an outline of a carp as it rose toward the surface of the water, and she stood still. In a flash her face was in the water, mouth wide open---but no. The fish flipped up and over her head, slapping her in the face with its tail before it dissapeared into the lake with an echoing /fwap/ to the water's surface.
Naniko growled beneath her breath. She used to be good at fishing...what had happened? Sure, she'd broken a leg, but she hadn't thought that it would throw her off balance so much. That it would affect everything in her life like it was. It was hard to walk, to hunt, to build a fire...and she didn't have Iskata or Conri to take care of her this time.
She shook the cold water out of her fur, sitting back to look into the water again. One would come back up...eventually.
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She put her paw into the icy water, then pulled it back out. It was pleasantly warm today, compared to the last week or so, but the water was still freezing. She didn't know how the fish could handle it; she could see them swimming sluggishly below, just out of reach. Didn't fish migrate? Salmon did, she knew that. One of the shadows became an outline of a carp as it rose toward the surface of the water, and she stood still. In a flash her face was in the water, mouth wide open---but no. The fish flipped up and over her head, slapping her in the face with its tail before it dissapeared into the lake with an echoing /fwap/ to the water's surface.
Naniko growled beneath her breath. She used to be good at fishing...what had happened? Sure, she'd broken a leg, but she hadn't thought that it would throw her off balance so much. That it would affect everything in her life like it was. It was hard to walk, to hunt, to build a fire...and she didn't have Iskata or Conri to take care of her this time.
She shook the cold water out of her fur, sitting back to look into the water again. One would come back up...eventually.