Dusk. The sun was slowly beginning to set beneath the horizon, a heavy, lazy red orb hanging over a blanket of faint white and brown; the sky itself was fading to an inky blue colour, it seemed endless in its cloudless state. All over stars were beginning to become visible, little pinpricks like crystals hanging in the sky, the moon itself had already risen, now a waning moon, slowly fading from being completely full. The breeze that blew through the lands was cool, there had been some snowfall but it was a lot less than it had been in the previous few days, it seemed that the lands were attempting to get a little warmer than it had been. The immediate lands were strange, the sunflowers that usually graced these lands had died back for the winter, the only signs of them being brown stalks, twisted and gnarled, some pointing at the evening sky, some bent double, broken and faded; the lands seemed to be dying away, hopefully soon there would be some new growth, a sign that the lands would once again be lush and green. Soran had come here to be alone, to sit in the quiet and just be at peace, so much had happened in the past few days she felt that she needed it. She had come out of her almost permanent state of seclusion to be thrown right in to some deep turmoil. It seemed that Noah, her step son had trespassed on another's lands, that was something that was very much against New Dawn's laws, had he been a trespasser on their own lands then he would have received a very terrible punishment, he had perhaps gotten away a little more lightly as it had been another land that he had trespassed on. But still he had committed a terrible crime, a slight on New Dawn's good name, it was lucky that the pack lands he had walked onto were a one that her pack were friendly with, had he trespassed onto another land he might have been killed, maimed or worse he could have started a war. It had caused a lot of trouble within the pack and Soran knew that it had caused her mate a lot of pain to see him punished.
For a moment at the thought of Deuce the sable female felt a pang of guilt, perhaps she should be at home with her, comforting her; but this evening Soran felt that she was allowed to be a little selfish. As the Beta wolf of the pack she had had to stand by Zalen and Titania's decision, no matter how it broke her heart to see Noah in trouble. Unfortunately it was her duty to behave in a certain way, no matter what her feelings on the subject, it was something that she was not quite used to yet, when the sable female had been a member of Crimson Dreams it had been her duty to go against rulings if she felt that it was necessary to protect those of lower rank than herself. But here such a cardinal rule had been broken and Soran had not felt that she would be able to speak out against a ruling. Soran gave a sigh and rubbed an ebony hand across her eyes, she pinched at her snout for a moment with her forefinger and thumb before taking a seat on the ground, she crossed her long legs beneath her and stared out across the lands. What a strange twist this had all been.
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