The air is heavy as you make your way through unknown territory, as you pause to sniff the air a drop of rain falls onto your nose. It is soon followed by another and another and soon the rain is pelting down in sheets, soaking you to the bone. The clouds are an angry purple and the menacing drumming of thunder rolls over the sky. Squinting your eyes against the blinding water you find yourself at the edge of a large, dark pine forest. You are too desperate for shelter to notice the scents that mark the border and plunge in, and nearly into the chilly stream that runs through the territory. You veer away and as you are shaking the water out of your fur you notice a large pair of icy blue shards gazing at you. The storm has passed now and beams of sunlight filter through the thick canopy of pines, illuminating a massive male wolf not three feet away from where you stand.
His pelt looks like a bad patchwork job of black and white and beneath them you see large, hard bands of steely muscle and you know this is a warrior for his torso is marred with many battle scars. His banner curls over his back and his lips are drawn, exposing sharp ivory daggers. When he speaks his voice is deep and dominant, like the thunder you so recently heard.
"Wolf, you have found yourself in the terra of the Andere Seite Pack. I am Eclipse, king of this land."
It is only then that you notice another pair of lanterns gleaming in the penumbra and a dark-pelted fae slinks out into the clearing to stand next to the king, her own banner waves and her green and blue eyes bore into you. She is the same size as most males and a crisscrossing pattern of scars show that she too can take care of herself. Her voice is cold and has a snake-like sound to it yet you can see they are both fair rulers.
"And I am Nephthys, queen of Andere. We don’t care much for strangers so you must make your choice, Submit to us now or flee our lands and never return. If you fail to do either you will have little time left to regret it."
The formidable pair pierces you with their gaze and you feel as if all your secrets spill out before them. You are left with a decision now. Will you submit and take refuge in this dark forest or will you flee and never know what secrets these trees hide? Make haste, you can see that the pair grow tired of waiting.
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Posted on June 19, 2015 at 04:10:53 AM by Athene
 ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ After literally being run into by Ghost, Athene had continued to explore the territory as she had when she and Zev had first arrived. It had hardly changed at all, but she had not really put any effort into learning the layout of the land the first time around. So now, this was her second chance, and if she and Zev were to thrive here and actually make it their home, they needed to not be loners, but instead be social. They needed to make… friends… and make relations with wolves other than each other. In fact, the only other wolf that Athene was close to in the entirety of Blossom Forest in all of the years that she had existed on and off in these lands was her own sister. It was lame of her, to say the least, but not many wolves appreciated her specialness. She was often silent, and when she did speak, it was in rhyme and occasionally in riddle. Few had the patience to put up with her or take the time to get to know her. In their childhood home, she had been prized, for she had excelled at her job. In her childhood pack, there had not been ranks – there had been no need. Everyone in the pack hauled their own weight and were praised or punished depending on how they performed. There had been no secrets, for they had been a flawless web of wolves that worked together in order to excel. But here… here it was all wrong. Some wolves in packs did not participate or give their all. They grew lazy and fat in their own indulgence, but more than that they grew slow and weak. Packs were not one unit that worked together, but rather they were made up of multiple small units. They depended on the hierarchy to keep the members in line and those of each rank gave more or less depending on how high or low they were on the eating line. It was odd to her, but she had to adapt or else she would be left alone. In some ways, she had already adapted – mainly due to Zev. Though she had pledged her loyalty to this pack, she had been absent too long, and had hardly contributed at all. Were this her old pack, she would be shunned, and all of her faction’s duties would be done without her for one week to show her that she was replaceable and not needed, and the following week all of them would be placed onto her shoulders and only hers – to remind her that though she was not needed, she needed them or else she would tire quickly. The pack was strong enough to live on without her, but she needed them – at least in that way of life. But here was different. And so Athene was reaching out, trying to get to know her fellow pack members, fighting to make this place feel like home. As she explored the lands, she finally came across another wolf, and Athene hastened her stride until she was walking alongside him, her lips smiling and her plume waving slightly to show that she was friendly. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ |
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