12-09-2009, 04:53 PM
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| http://i692.photobucket.com/albums/vv28 ... /xeris.png); background-position: top; background-repeat:no-repeat; padding:8px; padding-top:70px;"> http://i692.photobucket.com/albums/vv28 ... are_80.png);"> The rain continued to beat with a fervor against the walls of the cabin. The wind was howling too, so loudly that she could have sworn she heard someone trying to get into the house. Or wait...maybe that was someone trying to get into the house? She paused for a moment, her ears held high to listen for the noise again. And then she heard a voice outside, asking politely to be let in from the rain. Immediately feeling sympathy for the unknown wolf outside, Xeris stood up. Holding the bundle of blankets and pups in one arm, she stood up, walked to the door, and opened it cautiously, only to find a reddish-furred wolfess standing in the rain outside. "Oh, poor thing, come inside," she said, opening the door wider to allow the stranger to pass through it. "There's some more blankets in here somewhere, let me find them." Still carrying her children in one arm, the white she-wolf leaned over a wooden box in the corner of the small cabin room, pulling from it a few woolen blankets and quilts. "Here," she said, offering them to the unknown wolfess who had appeared at her door. "You can dry off with these, and stay here to warm up for a while." A friendly smile crossed Xeris' face. Though she hadn't seen the red-colored visitor before, she bore the scent of Phoenix Valley buried beneath the odor of rain. "My name is Xeris, by the way," she added as she remembered her manners. She gestured to a chair nearby, and then she herself sat down on the bed, cradling the warm, moving bundle in her arms again. |