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There was a slight breeze that pushed through the gloomy area surrounding Jaden’s home in west New Glasgow. He slowly opened the ancient door in an attempt to keep its ungodly squealing from cutting the early morning air. Inside the home Verloren, the young she wolf he was mentoring, still slept through the dark hours. Most mornings he would wake her to go out training with him, but not today. Today was a rest day for the pup to do what pups do and meet others around Ichika while Jaden fulfilled his duties. But he still had not planned on leaving quite this early. The nightmares that visited regularly had used their icy grip to shake him from sleep an hour or two ago. The man had lain in the large and strange bed which he was yet to get used to and tried desperately to find sleep again. Efforts proving futile with the fresh images of a bloody memory plaguing his mind, he decided to get up and start out on his morning journey earlier then normal, thinking that perhaps he could reach his Halcyon Mountain training ground just after dawn.
Still drowsy, the chilly morning gust was met with an annoyed grumble as he cleared the mess of weeds which once been a lawn in front of the human dwelling. Verloren still slept and Jaden sighed a breath of relief that hung in the air as a puff of white vapor. Then he turned and quickly changed forms before starting off at a calm trot toward the distant mountains.
Four lupus legs carried the brute past long deserted human dwellings and eventually into the surrounding country side. Jaden watched absentmindedly as the same terrain he passed every other day displayed the enormous amount of diversity present in Ichika no-Hoen land. Before long, the frosty grasslands led into forestry, and forestry into the uneven beginning of Halcyon foothills. The uneven ground under his ebony paws was also accompanied with an abrupt stop to the cool morning breeze as it was subdued by the looming presents of the mountains. The sun too began to show by throwing pinks and oranges against clouds bordering the horizon. The temperature began to rise little by little and new dawn light played havoc on Jaden’s deep blue eyes. Shadows invaded the forest around him and marred visibility as the Shishen unsuspectingly trotted along, not quite fully awake and not quite ready for what he was walking into.
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