The life of a loner was a solemn one at times. Wretch had parted ways with Kira, her traveling partner, to make a solo trip up to Salsola. Though the rest of her family lived in that northern pack, she hadn't felt as if she really fit there. She'd been raised in Dahlia de Mai, which had in turn merged to become Ichika no Ho-en...a more peaceful and outgoing pack. Salsola's ways had seemed foreign and somewhat cold to her. They had seemed very distrusting of strangers, not willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. She'd built up a few ties with canines there, like Magnolia, but couldn't consider it for her home despite that. Other D'Angelos lived there, her mother being one of the pack leaders, her father, and all of her siblings...but it was not the right place for this one. Sometimes family was all that it took for a place to be considered a home. Wherever one's family was. But she could not yet appreciate the ways of the pack...how they treated others and how much distrust they held of those around them. She did not think she'd fit there at all.
The small silver hybrid padded swiftly through the brush on four legs, a pack over her shoulders but little else. Necklaces and bracelets adorned her paws, the bracelets clinking together as she ran. It made a rhythm that she could trot to, and she nodded her head along with it every few moments as well, making up a musical melody in her head and beginning to hum it. Her blue eyes wandered about her lazily as she ran - she'd not come across anyone in nearly a day and didn't expect to. She glanced up to seen the noontime sun beginning to dim a bit as clouds passed in front of it. Soon the sky began to fill with dark, rolling clouds, cutting off the gray hybrid from the warmth of the sunlight. She stopped running entirely to look up at the weather conditions, observing the darkening of the sky. Rain began to pour out of the clouds the moment that she focused on them, and she yelped a bit, racing for the nearest treeline.
.wretch-02 b {font-weight:bold; color:#82a75d; letter-spacing:1px; text-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em #3a5a19; }
.wretch-02 p {text-indent:0px; padding:5px 16px; margin:0px;}
.wretch-02 {margin:0 auto; width:450px; background-color:#6e8755; background-image:url(http://i.imgur.com/PZAwW.png); background-position:top center; background-repeat:no-repeat; border:1px solid #0b052c; padding: 310px 0px 7px 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size:12px; color:#475a35; text-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em #; letter-spacing:.6px; word-spacing:.9x; line-height:13.3px; text-align:justify;}
.wretch-02 p b:before { content: open-quote; }
.wretch-02 p b:after {content: close-quote; }
</style>
[/html]