01-14-2012, 02:22 PM
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Blaise awoke disoriented. Not only was she laying in a massive room beside a fireplace, but also her belly felt fuller than it had ever been. She was blissful with the comfort of a long rest. Confusion fought with happiness as the events of the day before arranged themselves in her mind. Those events were so strange that she could barely believe them. But this room, her softly rounded belly, were both real. As she regained consciousness and better understood what had happened yesterday, she became more certain and more afraid.[/html]
Blaise left her soft bed and drank some water from the dish left to her the night before. The nagging feeling of something being very wrong was unbearable. Her mother remained absent and no one was here to take her searching for her. Where was Anu? The older wolf had promised that, today, they would find her mother. Tears shimmered in her apple eyes as the child went to the entryway of the room in which she had slept, peering all around at the empty house. Seeing nothing, she raced the lower floor of the manor, several times tripping over paws unused to sleek, level ground.
She arrived at the front door and went out into the cold. The morning was bleak, dull frosted earth rising into spindly pines in the distance and an empty white sky above. As the ashen child made her way around the perimeter of the manor, her nose twitched insistently. Finally, it found Anu's scent, which she followed to a lovely little garden with silvered dormant plants. The elegant gray woman was settled calmly in its midst. As before, simply seeing the lady soothed Blaise, all frustration and confusion fleeing on the soft wintry breeze. Miss Anu? the girl peeped, laying back her ears and crawling to the woman's feet.