Shadow in the woods

Vesper · 02-19-2012, 11:53 PM

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Vesper was comfortable with silence and solitude. As a loner, she might not have spoken to another canine for stretches of months, and she had almost always walked alone other than her brief run with the young coyote gang. It was simply how she was, even if others used to pack life would be perplexed. They would ask her if she ever got lonely, and until now, she had always answered no.

Being in Inferni had changed her, but the coywolf thought it for the best. She believed that she could always leave and return to her lonesome life without a problem. She simply didn’t want to leave, and she enjoyed the friendships there, just as she was content with walking beside this dark stranger without a word.

Shadowfang carried a contented demeanor, too, and his quiet happiness almost drew a smile out of her—almost. She instead gave him a sidelong glance of amusement until he was the one to start the conversation, and quickly she answered with a shrug. “I am at the top of Inferni’s scouting ranks,” she explained briefly. “I’ve just come from the north and am making my rounds through these woods until it’s time to head back home.” She was careful to avoid mentioning Anathema, however, as she wasn’t even sure she would reach the cave-dwelling pack at this rate. It would only be awkward to stand alongside the dark loner as he was asking his own questions, after all.

“So, Shadow—do you come from very far away?” Vesper asked, letting her curiosity guide his questions. She’d heard tell of luperci that had sailed across oceans to reach Nova Scotia, while others were Canadian-born like her.

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