Kairos was out looking for her grandfather. She did not know exactly why, but something about the way Elijah and Stella refused to speak of him awakened a curiosity in the young girl's mind that refused to be sated. So, she had set out one early fall afternoon for Asteraia to seek him out. She knew very little about him, only that he was supposed to be terrifying and callous, a wolf not to be trusted by anybody. Some whispered that even his own mate wouldn't trust him with their children, for he was unpredictable and rather savage. It was an exciting prospect, then, for the youngster to be meeting him alone. She had not told the milk-giver who gave milk no longer that she was leaving the den, or where she was going, but she supposed it was no longer required of her anyway. At almost one years of age, she was old enough to fend for herself, and her strange family only weighed her down. Every moment that passed brought her nearer to abandoning them, but the thought of leaving Zagan kept her from striking off on her own.
She huffed in annoyance, wondering why she cared so much for the wordless little male and coming to no conclusion that satisfied her. Instead, she moved into an easy, ground-eating lope, breaching the borders of the grassland before the sun had even reached its zenith. Without even bothering to pause, she flew across the scent line and left it far behind her, enjoying the unfamiliar scenery as it sped by in a blur. Only when she came across Tobias' distinct cologne did she slow, and by then she was deep within the pack-lands already. Thankfully for her though, she had come across no other lupine and so remained unchallenged. Casting her muzzle left and right, she began to track the odour, noting that it carried hints of fire and death and reminded her of her own more feminine perfume.
A hare burst out of the grass to her right and she shot off in pursuit, sheer instinct driving her to chase prey that chose to flee. Her tongue hung from her jaws with the enjoyment of the hunt, but it was short-lived. Having little experience in hunting fleet prey, the long-legged creature shot down a burrow only a few meters from where it had been innocently grazing. Frustrated, Kairos forgot about her search for her grandfather and began to dig, her paws working furiously to widen the gash in the ground, unaware that the small bundle of fur had long since escape through another tunnel behind the tricoloured femme. The maddening scent of warm bodies stirred her into a fury and she growled long and low as she worked, already tasting the hot blood as it poured down her waiting gullet.
OOC-blegh, sucky, but here it is:p Again reminding that this is not her pic or HTML
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