The Start of Something New

Titania Moonsong · 03-22-2012, 11:38 AM

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burning the ground, I break from the crowd
I'm on the hunt I'm after you

strut on a line, it's discord and rhyme

AND I'M HUNGRY LIKE THE WOLF

Word Count :: 500+ Helloooo! =)

The Fairy Queen, too, heard the call, but instead of meeting it with Ciara’s eagerness today the sound came as a bit of an annoyance. Why did tedious tidings have to interrupt lunch? For a moment Titania thought about staying put in Avalon, loathing the thought of relinquishing her kill to the scavengers, but then the disconcerting thought of a stranger at her borders spoke louder than her belly did, and soon the Alphess rose to all fours and trotted away from the half eaten hare. It wasn’t long after that she heard the sound of fluttering wings as a carrion bird swooped down to enjoy the still warm meat. Sighing, the wolfess entered the copse that enclosed Avalon, and trotted toward the sound of the call.

At least she knew she could count on her pack to rise to the call of duty, too. It seemed that almost every New Dawn member spread themselves about the lands, so their territory was oft protected from infiltration. Rarely had a call gone out and she was the first responder, normally someone else had been closer and found the visitor before herself, as seemed to be the case today, too.

When Titania arrived her amber eyes fell upon the sight of her pack sister, Ciara, speaking with a stippled black and gray wolf, one with a few distinguishable coat markings like the dark stripe that seemed to trace her spine. She also noticed Ciara’s highly curled tail, and to this she raised an eyebrow. Not long ago she had had a “problem”, so to speak, with Ciara. Wrought with instinctual dominance and jealousy, Titania had gone on edge when Ciara went into heat, and had banished the wolfess from the communal den. But now things had blown over, Titania’s ego no longer bruised, and Ciara was once again on good terms with her. But this curled tail? She knew she was asserting her station over the stranger, but this much of a show could lead the stranger to believe that she was the Alpha.

Perhaps a slip of the moment… she thought to herself, able to be more level headed than she was with their last incident. Yet still she would not let it go completely. Raising her head and tail, Titania trotted over to the pair. She padded up next to Ciara, bumping her shoulder into hers in their affectionate family way… and also holding her head a hair taller than the Epsilon.

There, that should quell the issue just fine. Looking down her snout at the stranger, she finally realized that the strange female did not appear to be full wolf. Most of her features were wolfish, and her blood was probably predominantly a strain of their kind (little did she know, by coincidence, the same breed as her own, in fact).

Ciara had already spoken, and there was no need to demand the same questions. After all, Ciara was a perfectly acceptable voice of New Dawn in matters such as these – but she could not speak for the pack when it came to making a decision. So, respecting Ciara’s station, she awaited the stranger’s response. Her own introduction would come soon enough; though to any wolf with the slightest ancestral memory left would know who Titania was in this pack by her presence alone.

image from dawnthieves; code template by kitty; table by raze

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