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Date: July 26, 2012Setting: Wabanaki Coast Near Sangi'lak Boarder Time: Afternoon Character Form: Lupus |
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OOC: X'y will be coming to the rescue if no one beats her to it! Anyone is welcome.
A mind so young did not deserve the confusion and fear that young Zeus now faced. He lay quivering under a tall tree that he recognized by smell but had no name for. He cried with the squeaking whines of a puppy for help and to express the pain and fear that consumed him so fully. He whined for Mama to come and save him from the monster. The monster who’s flapping sounded like a bird’s and smell reminded him of feathers. But it was no bird. The birds he knew sung sweetly outside his den and tasted good when his papa brought one in. They didn’t screech and scream or cause hurt.
This one hurt so much. Pain wasn’t completely strange to the pup though. He knew the smell of his own blood from when his brothers and sisters would bite him for accidentally stumbling into them as he often had. But there was so much of this too. The air was heavy with it and his back felt wet and cold where long talon gashes had torn into the gold and black fur. Where was Mama? Or Papa? When would they be back to save him from the monster? They had been gone so long. Zeus could never understand while sitting there by himself that they would never come back. They had asked him to wait here and he would until they returned. It had been days and he was quickly beginning to starve but still he would sit. They would come back and see how well he had listened. Then Papa would eat the monster up and maybe share it with him. Hopefully they wouldn’t be mad that he had moved to hide from the monster. He whined with more sadness at the thought their further disapproval.
In a world that saw fit to be overly cruel to the little wolf, he had found a bit of luck. It was lucky that the large raptor now flying overhead had missed at its attempt to snatch him up. It was also lucky that the blind pup had managed to so quickly find a large root at the base of a nearby tree to squeeze under and block further dive-bomb attempts. But it looked like that was where his small spurt of luck would end. The raptor was circling overhead and contemplating the safety of a landing. When it decided, and it would, to land, there would be nothing to keep its sharp beak from bringing a quick end to Zeus’ already short life. He would hear it coming too. The scratching of long talons in the dirt as it bobbed towards him. All he could do was curl his tail under his bloodied and trembling backside and hope in terrified silence that the monster would go away.
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