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 August 27, 2018 at 00:45:19 AM by Perdere
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^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ “Really? If you… if you don’t know how to fish, how exactly do you feed yourself? How do you keep yourself in shape or energized at all? Do you just rely on everyone else to take care of you? If I hadn’t fought off that cougaress…” ‘I’ll get us something.’ Her words silenced him as she mumbled the words and slid out of the den and out into the open air. Perdere stared after her for a few long minutes before inhaling sharply between his front teeth. He would give her half an hour, an hour max before he would head out after her. In the meanwhile, he spent the time alone cleaning the wounds he had inflicted – each movement of his muscles, no matter how small, send waves of pain rippling up toward his center. But the brute gritted his teeth and continued to clean, knowing how much bacteria lay within the mouth of a feline, and he had no desire at all to get an infection. After all, then he would be in real trouble – after all, he had not truly belonged to Caidir Olc in a long time, and if he did not belong there, then he did not really belong anywhere. He was packless, a loner… and while he had enjoyed that before, enjoyed his independence, he understood now just how difficult it made life. Perdere cleaned until he couldn’t clean any more, and then he looked toward the mouth of the den – there was still no Shilo. Perdere inhaled sharply again and begun tapping his claws upon the rock in front of him… she should have been back by now… And finally, a few minutes later, the scent of blood rushed into his nares – she apparently had actually managed to catch something. Perdere huffed and pulled himself to his four paws, his weight resting on three of his four paws, waiting for her to enter. And when she did, Perdere snorted – she had returned with only half a hare… a skinny one at it. Perdere expected her to say something, anything, but instead she merely dropped the ass end of a coney at his paws before curling up as tightly as she could and going to bed. Perdere glared at her and then glanced down to the rabbit. It wasn’t much of a meal – barely more than a snack, but it was better than nothing. In two bites, the rabbit was devoured, gone down the hatch and into his belly. It at least ceased the trembling of his stomach… and with a mumbled “thanks” he went to bed too, moving toward the entrance so that he would block it. The next morning showed the light waking him right as the dawn broke over the treeline, and Perdere gruffly nuzzled Shilo awake, before trotting out. “Come on, we have to get moving, I think I scented a pack border just before we went to bed last night. We had best make it there before the next night fall – I think perhaps it is yours. I am… so excited for a talk with your Alphess. If she can even be called that.” He trotted out a step or two, but then stopped and turned to look at her. “Thanks again for the rabbit. It wasn’t much… but you exceeded my expectations.” He looked away from her and picked up the pace. The rest of the night before had improved his strength, and his wounds already had begun granulating in. Hours passed, and he kept a slow pace, slow enough so that she could keep up, but by the time they reached the pack, even his limbs were aching. But the scent at the pack boundary was not female… it was male. “This is the pack you named… but are you sure you named the right one?” He whispered the words to her even as the sound of an approaching wolf silenced him… ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ The demons run circles… ...round and round in my head... |
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- I’m Infected, By Your Genetics - By Shilo August 28, 2018 at 00:11:53 AM