04-19-2012, 04:51 PM
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Already the tenseness was leaving her body and she was sleeping better unlike the first two or three days that her body took to get used to her new environment. As a result there was new life breathed into her, she could think more clearly and thus make herself more useful. She was on her old routine, already up and about early, patrolling and looking for the signs of various game at the same time, after she had patrolled then if she had found any indication prey was nearby she would retrace her steps back and then hunt them down, if not then she would simply wander about hoping to stumble across them.
The signs of spring that was slowly pushing out the winter had the birds chirping merrily from their perches. The sound filled her hearing with its bright tune and she found herself humming as she walked, moving quickly and quietly like the predator she was. She stepped out into a small clearing, a break in the trees where an older tree had fallen and pushed over some smaller ones creating a natural hole in the forest. It was when she reached this that a loud screech cut through the chirps and the song birds departed in a blind panic. Jace barely had time to look up as wing beats approached before claws dug into her shoulder and a large avian specimen alighted upon her shoulder.
Another screech that nearly deafened her before she got enough of a glimpse between the flapping wings to recognize who it was. "Grynn!" A softer but no less loud cry of acknowledgement and the peregrine looked her in the eyes, Neela lost, ill, hurt. Jace help. Come! Come!" With that the large bird of prey took off from her, leaving pin prick holes in her pelt that bled a little. In the grand scheme of things though it was not much and Jace immediately started forwards, breaking into a swift run, following the falcon that would lead her to her lost friend.
Already the tenseness was leaving her body and she was sleeping better unlike the first two or three days that her body took to get used to her new environment. As a result there was new life breathed into her, she could think more clearly and thus make herself more useful. She was on her old routine, already up and about early, patrolling and looking for the signs of various game at the same time, after she had patrolled then if she had found any indication prey was nearby she would retrace her steps back and then hunt them down, if not then she would simply wander about hoping to stumble across them.
The signs of spring that was slowly pushing out the winter had the birds chirping merrily from their perches. The sound filled her hearing with its bright tune and she found herself humming as she walked, moving quickly and quietly like the predator she was. She stepped out into a small clearing, a break in the trees where an older tree had fallen and pushed over some smaller ones creating a natural hole in the forest. It was when she reached this that a loud screech cut through the chirps and the song birds departed in a blind panic. Jace barely had time to look up as wing beats approached before claws dug into her shoulder and a large avian specimen alighted upon her shoulder.
Another screech that nearly deafened her before she got enough of a glimpse between the flapping wings to recognize who it was. "Grynn!" A softer but no less loud cry of acknowledgement and the peregrine looked her in the eyes, Neela lost, ill, hurt. Jace help. Come! Come!" With that the large bird of prey took off from her, leaving pin prick holes in her pelt that bled a little. In the grand scheme of things though it was not much and Jace immediately started forwards, breaking into a swift run, following the falcon that would lead her to her lost friend.