all you can do is raise hell.

Kaena Lykoi · 01-05-2010, 01:32 AM

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Set at Hades' Beach. Word Count: 504.

Cold air whipped along the creamy smear of coast, careening in off of the bay and bringing with it the distinct smell of salt to the hybrid's nose. Her head was tilted back, testing the wind for any changing scents. The inlet and the bay had not escaped her as a potential route of entrance for Dahlia de Mai. Their territories were far better connected by the water than by the land, with only the bay's inlet between them, rather than the entire long trek between Dahlia's eastern border and Inferni's western border. Sending troops by sea would be a crafty thing for Haku to pull, but perhaps Inferni might attempt such things first.

Kaena herself was no good at carpentry and she had no idea what was required to make a boat float over water, but perhaps some of the other canines did. Marik, Cotl, and Fritz had all spent time on boats, and perhaps their journey by sea would turn out to be far more useful than any of them suspected. If any of them had paid particular attention to the construction and build of the various ships they'd taken to get to this continent, Inferni might stand a fighting chance of entering the pack by sea. Such a thing would be entirely unexpected—that is, if they hadn't cooked up such a plan before the silver-furred hybrid did.

She was in the westernmost corner of Inferni territory very near to their border, standing on the rather isolated tip of territory that extended around the inlet. Their demesne was larger than when the silver-furred hybrid had arrived; their territory had expanded some in the recent months. Sadly, so had Dahlian territory. Haku's lands now stretched almost all the way to the city, leaving just a tiny window of neutral territory in between the city. The only safe way into Halifax—not that Kaena was planning on heading there anytime soon. There were still too many bad memories lurking in the city for the hybrid.

The morning had been spent patrolling this part of the border, occasionally running into coyotes that seemed whipped to near-frenzy by the prospect of war. Rikka had been conspicuously absent from the clan's meeting, but Kaena was sure someone had gotten the message to the golden-furred woman by now. Now that late afternoon approached, the hybrid thought it would be prudent to leave the patrolling duties to the others for now. Their western border had been quite active as of late, and the silver-furred coyote wondered if anyone from Dahlia de Mai had guessed at the coyote clan's activities yet. The hybrid decided to take the scenic route, trotting along the cold beach, her toes gripping the sand and flinging it up behind her as she went. The caves were her destination, but the looping route she had chosen took her all along Hades' Beach, and before long she had slowed back down to a walk, deciding to enjoy the trip back home rather than rush it along.

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