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This, truly, was a perfect place to watch the stars. There were no trees to block the sky for miles, and the sound of the ocean in the distance provided a rhythm to one's thoughts. Furthermore, the sky seemed darker here than anywhere else, wrapped like a curtain around the shoreline and letting only the light from the stars in. The moon, though more than half illuminated, sat close to the horizon, as if watching its children play from a distance. Yes, the night was about as perfect as it could be, and stargazing was a good way to cap off a wondrous day.
Hemming lay sprawled in the sparse grasses, his hands folded beneath his head. He felt as if each worn out muscle was sinking into the ground below, finding rest alongside the seedlings. Amber eyes flitting across Ursa Major and her young cub, he contemplated the histories of the stars, rather than the myths created for their constellations. It was hard to imagine that Vega, looking so peaceful from so far away, was really a place clotted with dust. Two stars hurtled around each other in nearby Andromeda, forever chasing tails. From such a distance, worlds of detail were lost.
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With a sigh the girl turned away from Inferni knowing full well that nobody of her family remained within the lands anywhere. Asphyxia was long since gone, god knows what had happened to her. Her father had not been anywhere near this place since she had disappeared from the lands all too long ago. Toxic's scent was no where to be found and obviously had not been in the lands for too long after the fires. There was a dull ache in her heart as she thought about her siblings. Garnet on the other hand, her scent had still be somewhat fresh. She was not sure why, but the scent was no where near Inferni. Could she perhaps be living with the wolves? The girl had always looked more wolf-like then her two siblings. Midnight was a spitting image of a coyote, if not she looked more serval than anything.
All these thoughts had her head muddled and the girl hardly knew what she was doing. Mindlessly wandering across the territory with no thought as to where she was putting each paw fall. Her ears were half-pressed against her head and her red eyes stared onwards into nothing. Her sight was hardly great anymore, she was not sure if it was blindness or what. Maybe it was the lack of food she had been eating as of late. Her body had grown quite small and frail, but it still pushed on. Hunger hardly phased her anymore. She was not sure why, she could ignore the strong ache in her stomach for a long while before having to give into it and finally hunt something down. When the point her body was threatening to just give up.
All of a sudden the girl found herself sprawled out across the grass after hitting a fairly warm and soft object. Her oversized ears flew up atop her head and she blinked a few times before locking on what she had tripped over. Her ears flew up again in alarm as she realized it was a wolf. Her tail twitched and she cowered backwards, casting an apologetic glance towards the male.
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And there was the North Star, the brightest object in the sky at these times. Hemming's eyes stayed fixed on it, right up until the moment that something landed on his scrawny torso. He let out a squawk, his arms coming up from behind his head and flailing in the air in a moment of close panic. It had probably been something unimportant, but his translocation to another world made anything knocking on his old body simply startling. He laid in the grass for a few moments, even more sprawled than ever, before rolling to his side to see if he couldn't figure out what had made contact.
He was extremely surprised to see that it was another canine. Squinting and craning his head forward, he tried to ensure that the coyote before him was real before making any other movements. After he had convinced himself, he moved so he was sitting with his legs crossed and asked, "Are you okay?" The thing looked petrified, and it almost hurt Hemming to see anyone in such a state.
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She had yet to find Gabriel. Let alone she had yet to find a way in telling him what she wanted him to hear. There was nothing she could do at the moment and in the mean time she had to bide her time and wait for what was to come. Figuring out a way to word it to the male without angering him. The last thing she needed was to be the cause of their leader running away to find his mate.. or ex-mate. Maybe they had gotten in a terrible argument and he already knew of her nearly crippled state. Whatever the cause Midnight was not too alarmed, Faolin had seemed fine, just like she always turned out in the end. She was a strong girl and was quite capable of taking care of herself.
Midnight was brought back to the present as the voice pierced through her thoughts and brought her back to reality. She blinked a few times at his question before giving a nod of her head announcing she was fine. Her ears draped back over her head as she glanced from him to the ground unsure of what his intention were. Wolves here were so finicky, you could find more wolves that hated coyote then you could find ones that did not mind them. Although her white fur was nothing normal for a coyote she still looked like a spitting image of one. Then of course to top it off, her feature that looked coyote seemed to be bigger than the average coyote's ears, slenderness, et cetera. She looked back up at the male shyly awaiting some kind of dismissal from him.
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Ick! Are ya almost done?
It had taken Hemming a couple moments to figure out what was so strange about this canine, but after a moment he realized that she was a coyote. Her chalk white fur made it take him a bit longer to do so; he didn't know they could have such a colour. Perhaps she was an albino? It was hard to tell in the dark, either way, and the male didn't think it was really something that was important enough to bother with at the moment. Or any time, really. He smiled gently at her, sensing that she might be at unease.
"Good," he replied. Putting his hands back behind his head, he laid back down, shifting a little in the vegetation to get comfortable. "Beautiful night, isn't it?" the male added jovially, eyes back tracing lines between the stars. After a few seconds of a silence that only came with the night time, he looked to her and said, "If you've not got anything to do, would you like to join me? The stars are quite clear tonight. Haven't seen them like this for a long time." Those distant suns would keep him company, but theirs was nothing like the warmth that someone on Earth would bring.
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Midnight relaxed at his words and offered a small smile as he kept speaking. If he could speak enough for the both of them, or ask her questions which just required a simple yes or no, they could go on quite nicely for the rest of the night. Her eyes lingered on him for a moment as he mentioned it was a beautiful night and she nodded with a small smile. Red eyes glanced up at the sky for a few minutes as the minutes passed and then he spoke again and she glanced back down at him and nodded to his request. The girl rose to her feet and padded silently over beside him, settling herself down into the grass.
She felt at ease laying here, curled up in the grass and staring up at the massive distance of stars before them. It was a beautiful sight really and she could not help but wonder what exactly was out there. Her large ears pointed out towards the stars trying to listen for anything that might give her a clue as to what was out there. A small audible sigh escaped her lips, but she quickly turned her head and smiling at the man that invited her to lay beside him. Her tail flicked back and forth in an effort to say thank you, which was also evident in her pleased facial expression.
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The night's chill breeze rifled its way through Hemming's light fur, whispering around his ears before playing through the grass. The wolf felt at one with the earth, then, as if his fur was continuous with the long stalks of the plants and the thick trunks of the trees. He stared into the heavens, an Earthbound thing longing for the stars, and felt glad to have another creature close to him. He smiled back at her, remaining quiet. Her silence didn't strike him as odd, as the curtain of darkness seemed to demand it. His own voice was kept to a whisper as he said, "There's the North Star, Polaris..." His arm extended into the air and he pointed a finger in the general direction of the bright star. "Polaris makes the end of Ursa Minor's tail. Ursa minor is the little bear, right there."
Perhaps this canine knew the constellations, but it felt nice to say their names out loud. Their stories, granted by ancient human civilizations, breezed through his mind. The ways that they had interpreted these pinpoints of light were so much different than the reality, the spinning balls of heat and gas. Hemming's eyes flickered for a moment, moving around the night sky, before he pointed to one of his favourite, and also one of the oldest, constellations. "And wrapping around Ursa Minor is Draco." Hemming's finger traced a looping path through the air, and he fell silent. There was a transcendence that he experienced when he looked at the stars, so distant and so small, and it always pushed the air from his lungs.
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For a moment Midnight was completely unsure of what she was to do. Having grown up a good portion of her life hating wolves due to the fact they took everything from her. She was pretty sure they had taken her from her parents when she was much younger, they had stolen her food when she scavenged in the winter months. Whatever she did find ended up in their paws somehow. They had beaten her up for talking to their children and had cast her away when they no longer needed her. It was just a harsh fact of life, yet she still could find it within herself to trust some, although she was very timid around them and willing to do whatever they asked just to get away without a scratch.
He didn't even seem to ask any questions and bother her about her being silent. It was nice and so the girl just smiled and looked up in the direction he had pointed his finger in, tilting her head as she listened to all the names, trying to pick out the pictures herself. She had heard of constellations, but no one had ever been able to point out anything but the little dipper to her. That was the extent of their knowledge, not as much as this guy knew. Amazed she stared up at the sky, eyes wide and sparkling with excitement as she tried to memorize everything she was saying so at one point maybe she could tell somebody else. If not just sit back and reflect later down the road when there was as clear a night as tonight.
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The day had been a long and exciting one, collecting fossils with his new friend Kansas, and for a moment sleepiness fell across the wolf. They had been searching for the past in the tall, crumbly cliffs by the sea, and now Hemming had cast his eyes to another, much more distant history. The stars, as they were reaching him now, represented the light from many years ago, and it was possible that part of Draco's shimmering spine was already burnt out, lost back into the darkness of infinite space. Very heavy thoughts were beginning to claim the wolf's head, and he struggled to plod through the mire. Right here, he felt so tiny, so insignificant. Measured by the scale of the stars, he truly was, but the fact that he was a living creature lifted him from the murky depths of triviality.
Was it possible that right now there were other beings staring at the same stars? The thought always sent a shiver up Hemming's spine, for so many different reasons, and it took him a long time for him to turn the question into words that left his mouth. His head turning to the white coyote, he said softly, "Do you ever wonder if there are other living things out there?" The wolf had no clue how to estimate the likelihood of that, but could the arrival of life on the planet really be unique to Earth? The vastness of space, the absolute availability of planets and stars, made him think that it must be true that there were other creatures out there.
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The night sky was truly gorgeous and had its own sense of beauty compared to that of the daytime sky. There was something ethereal about the entire thing and she felt so tiny compared to the rest of the world that was out there. The universe seemed to be endless and her mind could not even grasp the concept of infinity as she stared up at the sky wide eyed. She could only imagine the size of those planets and stars way out there if Earth was this bigger, were there bigger things out there besides the sun? His voice filtered through her thoughts again and she turned her head to look in the direction of the older wolf beside her.
When the words soaked into her thoughts she blinked a few times at him her mouth slightly agape and turned her head up to the sky again trying to imagine other wolves living on those planets. Maybe it was not even wolves that lived on those planets. With a sigh the girl turned back to the wolf for a moment and gave a slow shake of her head astounded at the thought of others living out there. Her red eyes were wide with astonishment as she turned back to the sky once again.
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Hemming basked in the diffuse warmth of the night. As he stared up at the stars, he imagined that he could feel their warmth. He imagined that he was a creature, perhaps something even more odd than the creatures that had lived on Earth millions of years ago, that was orbiting some other sun, and could in fact feel the warmth of a body that was only a tiny point of light to the life on the planet the wolves inhabited. What a strange universe it was, and what a thing to ponder.
The question had certainly made the other think, and for just a moment Hemming let his eyes rest on her, noticing the way the wonder made the muscles in her face move. He smiled softly as she nodded, and could almost see the starry sky reflected in her red eyes. She was obviously someone who was not taken with talking, but in this moment it didn't really seem to matter. The constellations above them did not hiss with the fusion of atoms, or snap as flares of energy tried to escape their surface. From so far away, everything but their image was rendered imaginary. Perhaps Hemming was viewing this white coyote, a rare sight indeed, from too far away to hear her speak. Sometimes it required getting closer to really understand what made someone tick, to really hear the words they were saying and the things they truly meant.
Looking back to the sky, at Draco and Polaris and all the stars that surrounded them, Hemming remained silent. Words were really not needed to enjoy and share the splendour of worlds so far away.
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The thoughts that crossed her mind were changing, what if there was someone else looking up at these exact same stars, or different ones in another solar system wondering the exact same thing as the two that were laying there were. This is what she liked, just laying in silence. Although, there was not much of a choice for her because she had no choice but to remain silent. But, at least there was not someone barraging her with words and accusing her of ignoring them even though it was very obvious she was not trying to be rude. They just were not used to wolves who could not talk due to the fact that's all everyone did now.
All of a sudden she felt extremely tired. Maybe it was because of all the talk of other worlds with other beings living on it that made her mind reel. Then there was the fact that she felt completely at rest in the company of this male that she finally put down that guard that took so much strength to keep up. Whatever it was, it did not stop her from opening her muzzle and letting out a soft yawn before closing it and blushing a bit. No, she did not find the male boring, it was just late, especially after being up quite early in the morning. Midnight had been one to walk at late hours, but lately it had not been that way unfortunately.
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The stars spun imperceptibly above them, shifting across the night sky ever so slightly as the Earth moved though its orbit and spun about on its axis. Sometimes the wolf felt as if he were about to be released into the sky, as if gravity had relaxed its tender grasp and let him go. He let his eyes relax, resting gently on the grand scene before him, and let his muscles loosen. A little surprisingly, lying splayed on the hard ground was extraordinarily comfortable, especially after a busy day. All parts of him were relaxed and at peace, and as he stared upwards he could almost see the constellations rotating around the North Star.
He enjoyed the stories of the constellations, and really, he enjoyed any stories at all. It had been quite a long time since the wolf had much to read, and the things he used to have memorized were slipping away. Were he not constantly surrounded by tribesmates and other potential friends, the fading of plays and books that he had had memorized might have bothered him. When he had lived in solitude his books were his sole companions, the characters in the pages his only friends. With real friends came the lack of necessity for imaginary ones, and Hamlet and Pierre Bezukhov retreated back to the realm of forgotten fiction. Hemming's new friends were more responsive and less neurotic, and he didn't take time to mourn the loss of the old ones.
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