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Posted on February 25, 2020 at 11:38:57 PM by A U R I *
| come with me, the vast unknown awaits for us to see something so deeply hidden, yet open before our eyes |
| Father sun was showing her the valley today. Auri lopped on slender legs through the long grass, which was starting to grow lushes and green again after their winter rest. Her mauve hued eyes spotted a flock of ravens in the distance. Curious, Auri changes her course to intercept her feathered brothers ... Though she soon comes to quickly regret that decision. The birds are gathered around the corpse of a wolf, squabbling about who would be the first to pick at the spoils. Considering the state of her mutilated body, this poor sister suffered a truly gruesome death, and Auri is nearly sick to her stomach. You could still see the look of horror reflected in the poor girl's glassed over eyes. "Away with you," she whispers sternly to the ravens who merely stare back at her with black unblinking eyes. "I said away!" She shrieks as she lunges towards the birds who quickly take flight in a chorus of shocked caws. "Go find something else to it," she sighs.
Now Auri is not in the habit of denying her raven siblings food. She understood, and accepted, that when her time came her body would be left to the scavengers. All of the mother's creatures needed to eat to survive and she would not hold that against the birds. However, Auri hoped to die of natural causes, either old age or sickness, many years from now. This poor female's life had clearly been taken from her before her time. In Auri's birth pack, the dead were left out to be scavenged upon, it was apart of the circle of life after all. The only time there was an exception to this custom was when an individual died from wounds sustained in an accident, they would be buried in the hope that the mother earth would embrace them and restore them before they could move on to the places of endlessness. Auri takes a deep breath before she starts to scrape at the earth next to the carcass. She is not the strongest of wolves and by the time she had dug a hole that was satisfyingly deep enough; father sun had set and the endless ones were starting to twinkle in the blue-black sky. Covered in mud from paw to tail tip, Auri climbs out of the pit and, as gently as she could, pushes the cold and stiff body into the grave. She does her best to position the dead wolf, tucking in the nearly severed limb, covering the empty abdominal cavity with earth and folding the front legs beneath the head. There! Now anyone who didn't know the horrible truth may think this wolf was sleeping. Crawling out of the pit for the last time, Auri stands at the head of the grave and gently gazes down at her departed sister. Now in a cradle of earth, the great mother will nurture the stranger until she is ready to take her place among the stars. The great mother loves all her children whether they were consciously aware of her presence or not. Auri closes her eyes and utters a simple prayer, "Sleep well my sister. I wish you only the most wonderful of dreams," she then opened her eyes to the night sky, "May the endless ones save your space amongst them." Mother moon was not present in the sky tonight, perhaps she was also hiding her face in mourning for her dead child. Finally she started to push the excavated earth back towards the hole. Why had she done this? Why had she wasted precious time and energy on a stranger. Because it was the kind thing to do. This stranger may have been someone's mother, could have been someone's sister and definitely was someone's daughter, she deserved to be treated with kindness. A u r i * female ~ nine years ~ homeless |
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