Oooh. I do think we should plot another thread in the very near future—I'll PM you with an idea! XD Dawali is adorable manthing, he is. xD 696.
The coyote clan had always had something of a fierce reputation. In past times it had certainly been more deserved; the silver-furred hybrid had not stood for any kind of trespassers. She had not allowed her predecessors' concessions of territory to stand—even if it was just a tiny strip of beach, it had been Inferni's first, and it wasn't exactly like the wolves had asked for that little piece of territory they'd taken, at least not in Kaena's memory. Truth be told, the hybrid could no longer recall the tiny details she'd once been able to recollect; her memory was beginning to grow fuzzy in parts, gray fog overtaking things that had once been sharp and wonderfully clear. All in all, that was not so terrible of a thing—the coyote woman was forgetting some pains of the past, leaving some things that had plagued her back in time where they belonged.
Dawali did not seem to have a problem with the idea that he would have to howl for her alone; the hybrid woman was glad for that. It was an unfortunate fact of life that her wolfen friends would not be so easily accepted by some others in the clan. There were varying degrees of prejudice among her clanmates. Hybrid tended to hate wolves universally; they were lower than dirt to him. Gabriel seemed to keep some amount of friendliness where his cousins were concerned—perhaps it was due to their greater hybrid percentage that this was made easy. "Thanks," she said, sounding fairly relieved he hadn't taken offense. Then again, he didn't seem the type; he might not have subscribed to the same policies as Inferni but he did not show them any derision, either. Once more she was happy she'd chosen to perambulate to these parts on this day; good would come of this meeting, she was almost certain of it. "Maybe the day will come when the rest of Inferni would welcome you, as well," the coyote said, a smile on her face.
She could understand roofs for protection from the elements; it wasn't so different from denning up to rear children. Previously to their humanization canines had much preferred to roam their territories, but with the advent of things like personal belongings and the like, coyotes and wolves alike had more reason to settle into more permanent dwellings. "That seems similar to holing up in caves to me... humans were trying to reach the sun or something," she said, somewhat derisively. She did not understand the human fascination with the sun—she could still recall the story of Icarus and how close he flew. It would seem the skyscrapers were built for the same end, to draw humanity closer to the great fire in the sky. The hybrid could understand reverence for it, but that came with a fair amount of respect, too. "Unnatural, I'd want to say," she added.
Kaena often thought that perhaps there was something inherently wrong with her; maybe there was something simply off within her programming which made it impossible for her to settle with one canine. She would have, given the opportunity—but it was perhaps fate that she would always end up loving a wolf. The first and only who might have fully integrated himself into Inferni and remained hers forever had died at Salvaged's hand. Zulifer was years and years dead now, and the old remnant left of him in the world would be Kerberos, and who knew where he was. The wolves she loved had been raised in entirely different worlds, and perhaps her own prejudices would never allow her to fully accept them for what they were. And so it was that Ahren and Fatin both had drifted out of her life; Ahren had left by choice at first, but now he was dead and in the ground. Fatin had decided to roam the wide world again, who knew where she had gone. "Hah. Sadly, I figure it'd be a pretty small club," she ventured, grinning. It was a fact of life that few lived to old age—life was not generally kind when it came to their life.
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