Word Count: 360. I figure maybe in a post or two? :] I want to have another one soon so they can talk about the war and such.
Though he would not admit it, and though he had not even considered the truth, Gabriel was not all that different from Haku. There was a darkness in him that twisted and coiled, a snake in his belly that allowed him to be able to sink to deplorable depths. No place in the world for any weakness, any moment of doubt. Gabriel had killed his own brother, and he felt no qualms about doing such a thing. Andrezej had deserved to die. He did not deserve that shallow grave Rachias had dug him, and he did not deserve any mercy. Few in the world did. Women and children were weak, and deserved no part of the coy-wolf’s wrath. He had attacked them before, when such things had been called for, but never killed (save Iskata, and he did not remember this incident at all).
War was brewing on the horizon, and though he did not know it now, such a thing would come and threaten to consume him whole. But for now, the darkness and the wickedness that lurked deep in his belly and in his soul was biding, sleeping, a monster who would not need called on until something so terrible ripped it asunder. He did not consider these things when she was around him though; like the moon, as it shone through her eyes, Anu’s presence calmed him. She filled a gap he did not even realize was missing in him. It was a peculiar sensation, being around her. Gabriel never found such a connection in females, let alone one that was a wolf. This sensation not only allowed him to relax, but made a smaller, rumbling doubt settle in the pit of his stomach. He did not believe she would ever harm him (as if she could), but he worried none the less.
Paranoia was a terrible thing. Finally the coy-wolf let his gaze leave her, yawning widely as the meat settled in his belly. “Are you planning on going back home sometime today?” He asked, deciding then if she was he would go with her part of the way, unwilling to leave her company so quickly.
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