03-09-2009, 09:00 PM
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"Boo." It was the only part of the speech that the raven woman's ears caught, the rest seemed just a garbled mess, likely caused by the fact that she was so far away and passing through the dry brush that now littered the majority of her lands. The voice, she decided, couldn't have come from very far away, and if Dawali hadn't accepted anyone recently, it likely meant that there was a stranger lurking. Curious now, cautious even, Ayegali turned from the small shelter of trees, out toward the fence that lined the majority of their main territory. It was likely that the stranger was at the borders, but she wouldn't know for certain until she managed to pick up their scent.
It was an easy journey since the snow had finally melted away for the most part, leaving only moist ground to cushion her steps. Before long she reached the fence, trailed down the path of the barbed wires, until the point that the faint breeze brought the stranger's scent to her. It was certainly not anyone from her tribe, not even anyone that she recalled ever meeting, and these facts caused the Kalona's pace to quicken, taking her past the point where they had torn away a small portion of the fence that contained them.
It didn't take her long to spot the bundle of white, silver eyes immediately focusing in on him, though what she found worried her more than the fact that there was a stranger lurking. Scars, and not just random ones either. Shapes and places that seemed almost deliberate, on a boy that seemed barely a year old, if that. "Hello.." Her words were slow, uncertain, and her steps followed the same path of her words, slowing as she neared and stopping but a few feet away. It wasn't until closer inspection that she noticed the bear there at his feet, though her eyes drew away from it quickly and back to examining the scars that littered his body. "Can I help you with something?"
"Boo." It was the only part of the speech that the raven woman's ears caught, the rest seemed just a garbled mess, likely caused by the fact that she was so far away and passing through the dry brush that now littered the majority of her lands. The voice, she decided, couldn't have come from very far away, and if Dawali hadn't accepted anyone recently, it likely meant that there was a stranger lurking. Curious now, cautious even, Ayegali turned from the small shelter of trees, out toward the fence that lined the majority of their main territory. It was likely that the stranger was at the borders, but she wouldn't know for certain until she managed to pick up their scent.
It was an easy journey since the snow had finally melted away for the most part, leaving only moist ground to cushion her steps. Before long she reached the fence, trailed down the path of the barbed wires, until the point that the faint breeze brought the stranger's scent to her. It was certainly not anyone from her tribe, not even anyone that she recalled ever meeting, and these facts caused the Kalona's pace to quicken, taking her past the point where they had torn away a small portion of the fence that contained them.
It didn't take her long to spot the bundle of white, silver eyes immediately focusing in on him, though what she found worried her more than the fact that there was a stranger lurking. Scars, and not just random ones either. Shapes and places that seemed almost deliberate, on a boy that seemed barely a year old, if that. "Hello.." Her words were slow, uncertain, and her steps followed the same path of her words, slowing as she neared and stopping but a few feet away. It wasn't until closer inspection that she noticed the bear there at his feet, though her eyes drew away from it quickly and back to examining the scars that littered his body. "Can I help you with something?"