Discarded respect is best kept in check.

Alaster Nishant · 01-05-2012, 05:31 PM

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This is a 'prologue' to this thread here~(<==click) :3

Alaster was really quite disappointed when they arrived at the stables...

Even through the winter the sheep were weathering the climate well, and the small lambs were the best troopers of the lot. They always huddled close to their mothers for warmth, and he had always had fun feeding them by hand when he had the chance. Ahiga didn't really see why his brother loved the animals much, but he never made fun of him for it. Alaster dreamed that one day he would have a horse and a full flock of sheep to look after--he really wanted to do this!

But the disarray of the pasture gates and Gemma was enough to tell them what had happened, if Ulilohi's call had not been enough. His green eyes searched out the surrounding bareness of the land, and caught the flash of white against an evergreen. He called for his mother to follow, and she did so without much resistance. More than anything, Alaster was worried about the small lambs being so far away from their mothers and the warmth of the stables; they were too young still to have the full wool to keep them warm, and the bitter cold of the land would get to them if they didn't. A hand on his shoulder alerted Alaster that his mother wanted him to go around one way while she went the other, and he complied obediently. The two white wolves thus circles to enclose the sheep between them, and hid close to the snow and behind the evergreens. The snow was good cover for them, in both sight and scent, and the wind was favorable today to blow their scent away from the sheep. Ralla had a little more trouble with camouflage due to her markings, so it was already decided who would do what. Slowly Alaster crept closer--him being smaller--towards the sheep as his mother readied herself on the other side, where she would leap and surprise the animal right into Alaster's arms. She did so with a mighty leap, scarring the animal right to him.

It certainly put up a fight, even as Alaster leaped on top of it. Ralla had to come soon to help him because he did not have the muscle mass of his twin to hold it down himself. But she did, and so when it was calmed by the boy's petting and words (he always did love to talk to them because it seemed like they were always listening) she picked it up. But his ears twitched, then, as a small bleating was heard not far away. "Ayv wili anagisdi agisdiyi nasgi!" Alaster whispered to Ralla as he began to walk in the direction he had heard the noise, recognizing it as one of the lambs. She nodded and let her son go off, knowing that she had to return this one sheep first and foremost. The thing seemed to get a little nervous when Alaster left, but he had to find the lamb...!

The little thing was one of the more skittish ones, and so it ran Alaster on a merry chase; over hills, jumping a creek, and around large boulders and trees. If Alaster didn't hurry it up, the lamb would leave the territory or be snatched by a predator, and then where'd he be? But it was a little late to worry about it being out of the territory; they had already gone out of it. The white boy's steps quickened as he ran for the lamb now, desperate to claim it before harm did. It crested a hill, and while Alaster was following, his feet his an icy patch.

Before he could even let out a yelp, everything went black...

Shepherd walks. "Shepherd talks." Shepherd thinks.

"We’re letting go of something we never had--Time goes so fast, Heaven is lost."

table by Kirin!

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