The air around Anathema didn’t feel right. It had Axelle on edge, and a sinking feeling in her stomach. Why did she feel like this? The caves around her felt empty and she couldn’t pin point on an exact reason why. She hadn’t heard that anything changed or any danger was nearby, but she just felt really uncomfortable. She fidgeted around on her table inside of her den. She was nervous. Where was Kai? She needed him. The sinking feeling kept getting worse as she thought about what the feeling could be about. She couldn’t come to any conclusions, but it still became worse.
A low howl echoed through the halls of the caves – and a confident one. It made Axelle dropped and smash her drug bowl on the floor. She hastily picked up the pieces, but stopped as she realized that the leader’s call wasn’t one of Alaki or Naniko. Who was this female? The call sounded familiar, like she might have met the woman once – but she hadn’t known anyone to take over leadership. Axelle threw the large piece of the bowl back onto the floor, and sat on the ground as well. ”Where is Naniko!” She demanded to no one, feeling a clump in her throat. She wanted to crawl in the corner and cry, but she couldn’t. She needed to go to the howl.
After rocking herself back and forth for a moment, she regained her composure. Now she knew why it felt empty – she couldn’t sense Naniko or Alaki’s scents anywhere throughout the caves. Only old scents. The Marbas avoided her mess of the broken clay bowl and walked out of her den toward the mouth of the cave. Before she reach the end, she found herself approaching the former Atheed, who smelled strangely of leadership. ”Aeron? What’s going on?” Her tone was quiet as she approached the woman, but very curious. She remembered the woman’s name from their brief hunt one day. The voice was coming back to her, as well as the bad feeling that hung low between her insides.
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