No Brighter Day

Clover Love Lykoi · 05-17-2012, 02:21 PM

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Hope you don't mind if I plop Clover in here! Smile

Daisy had accompanied her on the trek outside of Salsola’s borders, but the young Lykoi woman had not dared try to climb onto the mare’s broad back for fear of straining something. Her belly had grown large with the developing life within and it was just a matter of weeks before that life would be welcomed into this world. The familiar duo ventured past the river and deeper into Drifter Bay, which had once been Clover’s home when she had felt she didn’t belong anywhere else. This was a very familiar haunt, and so she traveled through it with the same confidence that she did elsewhere in Salsola. Daisy, too, knew exactly where the closest streams and perfect places to graze were settled.

The trek had left the woman rather exhausted, and sleep was quick to find her once she had allowed herself the comfort of getting off her feet. They had stopped among the sunflowers where Clover had often come to smoke, sing, and strum her guitar in earlier years of her life. The walls of green topped with yellow were a welcome sight, and the coyote woman had vanished amongst them before her eyes had fluttered shut. Daisy, on the other hand, decided to wander away from the field of sunflowers and do some exploring on her own.

It was the voice of another that had roused her from her sleep, and Clover sat upright as both darkened ears swiveled to better catch the stranger’s words. Now that she was awake and her senses more alert, she could detect the unfamiliar scent on the breeze and curiosity lured her to her feet once more. A few tentative steps took her in their direction, before a soft call followed, "Hello?" Clover wasn’t often one to fear others or think the worst, but perhaps the growing children inside her made her slightly more cautious.

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