Nihil Timeo! I Fear Nothing!

It was time for me to leave Taviora for a while and to travel once more. Not far, not like last time when I had disappeared for a full set of seasons. Some mornings I would wake up and then feel this aching feeling between my chest and a burning in my feet with the need to travel, to roam and wander and find myself in some new adventure. Father had told me and my sisters of his travels in our puphood and I had looked up to him. It had been hard to curb the protective instinct in me long enough to go on my adventure but I didn't regret it. In fact I came back to find out my sister Astraea had become close to the new leaders of the forest pack and that my sisters were fine, even if my brother was mostly a recluse. Time had changed a few things but the most basic, most intrinsic things remained the same.

My stocky legs stretched out in front of me as I padded through a field of waving grass, it's stalks dry and dead. They would wilt further with each turn of night when the cold crept deeper into the soil and ravaged them inch by inch. My fur was long and luxurious as always yet it had grown even thicker in the last few weeks in preparation for the upcoming winter. It gave me a graceful look to each step with my body stretched out to full length, tail held straight out behind me as I sniffed the air. I came to a dirt path, worn down by prey creatures, and I follow it absently until I draw closer to the pines of the mountains.

The border of Spirane hits me soon, the scent of Daenery's staining tree trunks and bushes. I am careful to not overstep the boundaries but I fall along the border and walk it, orange eyes taking in everything as I peer into the mountain kingdom. I didn't really know anyone there and yet the instinct I had for adventure wanted me to scope it out, to find each crevice and learn it's secrets. I pause in a wooded area, the trees casting me in chilly shadows, and let out a low, clipped howl that asks for any passerby to attend to me. Perhaps, with a little luck and charm, I can get in and take a look around.