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 Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 9:08 am
 Please come back home...
He had been wandering for a little while now, the weather hotter here, the sun beating down on his heavily furred pelt made it even more humid and almost unbearable, but he could make it, Wrigley was strong.
Glad he was, to just finally be free, away from those men who took him away from this, away from his family, they had broken up his family, he doubted he'd ever see his brother or sisters again, this fact saddened him. Wrigley even tried to find his mother and father, but they were no longer in the old den up north, it seemed like they moved on, he hoped so...he hoped he'd be able to see them again. To show them he had come back, he had come home...to the wild.
This place was different, it had a funny smell on the air. More south Wrigley had traveled, trying to think where his parents would go...but it seemed it was time for him to forget about finding them, he was older, and would be on his own.
Wrigley wondered if he'd ever be like his father, be strong, have a family, someone to care for. The sled dogs...they were nice. His friends, nothing more. He was always the odd one out, Wrigley looked like a dog, but they knew very well he was a wolf, they seemed a bit too glad he decided to leave.
He sighed as he took a step out onto what seemed like golden dirt thatshifted under his paws, before him a vast lake like none he had seen before. His ears flicked sideways as the wind blew, carrying that scent...ug, it was in his mouth now.
Wrigley trotted over to the water and watched it lap the shore, almost touching his paws, ug this taste...blech, he leaned down and took a couple laps of the water but as soon as it entered his mouth he jumped back and sputtered up the water. His tongue hanging from his mouth, Wrigley making odd noises like "ewwww gross..blech...ehh...nyack!" He tried wiping his tongue on what seemed like a dry rock, but it was wet with the icky water too. He took a step back and fell over his tongue hanging from his mouth...well wasn't this just grand? He thought as he curled his tail around him.
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Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 4:17 pm
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Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 5:16 pm
He spun around, brown orbs coming into contact with another wolf, but with a darker pelt than he, but what did he know, pure white he was, ANYONE could have a darker pelt than him more likely so. Wrigley stood up and shook his fur a bit, the awful taste still lingering in his mouth, his curled tail swaying back adn forth behind him.
"Awful stuff it is..." Wrigley said with an odd yet funny facial expression, but he had done it on purpose, he was like that, always trying to make someone's day a bit brighter, even if he could not do the same for himself.
Tilting his head at this wolf it was obvious she was female, pretty too...he cursed himself for that thought, what would she think if he did something stupid? Used one of those "pick up lines" the other sled dogs had told him about. They never worked, plus, he didn't understand those dogs anyway.
Padding over to her he smiled, eyes focused on her, but not in a creepy way he hoped, she seemed accustomed to this place, but it was bloody hell on earth for him, dying of heat he was...or maybe that was just her making him feel like that...he wasn't positively sure.
But she seemed nice, he did though stop a few feet from her, a gap between them, but still, closer then before though. Wrigley was a bit nervous he had to admit, he didn't want to make a fool out of himself, though when he introduced himself he made a friendly smirk and puffed out his chest a little bit,
"I'm Wrigley. May I have the pleasure of knowing your name?"
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Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 5:48 pm
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Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 5:54 pm
"It is alright, laughing soothes the soul." He smiled somewhat, her name was enticing...and she was from the north too? Ironic...or perhaps fate? He swayed his tail a bit, the end curling up now and then, she seemed...different, from the others he had encountered,
"The north can be troubling, blizzards and all...I just came from there...well, ran away really. I wanted to return 'home' in a way, I was taken away from the wild before...I wanted to come back..." Wrigley stated absent mindedly, though why he had said such a thing he wasn't sure.
"Its quite a pleasure to meet you Cassidy," with a smile he bowed his head slightly, but kept his eyes focused and looking into hers, not breaking contact in his odd gesture.
"You seem to know this area well, do you stay here?" He wondere if she did, with who. A pack...he gulped, her mate. Meh, with his luck that would be the case, someone like her wasn't a wolf you saw everyday...least in his opinion.
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Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 6:05 pm
"Ran away?" She questioned, her head tilting to the side. "I guess you could say I did too. Well. Except running away- I left, I mean. I probably should have stayed, but that's how it goes. My mother ran a pack up north- she's all iron and blazes, so I wanted to leave for a bit-" Woah there, stop the life story. She paused for a moment, and grinned somewhat haphazardly. "Sorry, I have a habit of talking the ears off people."
"I live right here." She remarked, patting her foot on the ground. "Well. In the vicinity. Thereof. My uncle runs the pack just east of this beach, and the rest of the coast until some other alpha or another. They have a monopoly on all the water you could ever not drink. Fine place though. Are you looking for something? Seems like everyone who comes walkin around here is looking for something."
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Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 6:11 pm
He smiled softly as his ears flickered to the side,
"It is alright, I would talk quite a lot too up north...no one would ever listen, I was...the outcast ot the group you might say." His eyes then drifted to the ocean, so different...his parents would have been astounded to see this, seem him, how big he'd grown.
"I ran away from man...a small town of traders up north...I was raised as a sled-dog...but still treated differently..." he stopped though, she would not want to hear bhis whole life story either, she'd probably think of him as odd now, being half raised by man.
"Its nice here...a bit of a change...but change is good no?" he asked looking in her direction. He considered her other question, if he was looking for anything...quite a few things actually though. He wanted a home again, a family...he did realize he was still a bit young for such thoughts, but his mind grew more mature then his body has done. He wanted freedom, adventure, yet a home. But should he tell her this?
"A home mainly...others things too..." he sighed, almost saying the words softly.
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Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 6:18 pm
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Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 6:29 pm
Wrigley thought for a moment, how to say things so that he wouldn't confuse her and him and the same time,
"A sled dog is like...well, a dog is a "tammed' version if a wolf, or so I've been told. And a sled dog is well..." he should have thought his words through better, perhaps explaining what a sled was would be a better approach?
"A sled is a bunch of pieces of wood bound together, things can be put on it, and a man can control/steer it. Sled dogs are the ones who pull the load and the man...basically its like prison on a leash..." he stated with an odd expression in his eyes.
Yet just peering towards Cassidy and her excitement made that sad expression fade to nothing, he listened to all her words though.
"This place is nice...at least you made it...I'm glad you made it here...or else...I wouldn't have been able to meet you." Another wag of his tail, man he was making a fool out of himself, but he couldn't help it...not with her.
He smiled at her excitement and sudden burst of energy, suggesting this place was nice,
"It is nice..." his eyes looking to the ocean, but eyeing her still, "Quite beautiful and nice..." But would he be allowed to stay? Cassidy had mentioned an alpha before...Wrigley wondered if he'd be able to stay, he figured not many wolves would be so open of having a 'wolf touched by man' be in their territory, let alone their pack. He hoped he could though...Cassidy...she was here.
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Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 6:41 pm
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Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 6:47 pm
Well without fail Wrigley had confused himself and her apparantely, ah well, more explaination in need, but it didn't bother him strangely, not with her,
"They would tie us up to keep us in line...and to take them where they wanted to go...quite the hassel sometimes, running several miles in snow with no breaks..."
He remembered those days, the blizzards, the ice and snow, all too familiar. But Wrigley had left that behind him now, though he still wished to answer Cassidy's questions,
"No..." he shook his head, "They knew I was a wolf...they took me from my den not long after I was born...took my brother and sisters too, left my parents under a net...I never knew what happened to them..." he trailed off for a moment, but faded back to reality, "They thought I'd be strong, and well suited for the type of work I suppose, cause of my coat...quite poofy no?" He said with a smirk, trying to make her laugh.
"Also, my tail, it curls, bones are abnormally placed I think, but it doesn't hurt, its quite fine..." he stood up and wriggled it a bit to prove it was so and he smiled.
"Its nice here...I'd like to stay here-" with you he thought, but should he say it? Not sure yet...would her uncle kill him if he did so?
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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 9:32 am
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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 12:09 pm
He had not thought of that...but he doubted it highly. He shifted himself somewhat so that he was sitting in front of Cassidy now, a smile still on his face, brown eyes fixated on her,
"I doubt it...they always kept their distance with me...I think they were afraid my instincts would make me want to hurt them...and out here, where there are more wolves...I doubt they'd come, this far south too, it took me a few days to find myself here at the least," He stated with a curl of his tail and a smile. He did lose track of time frequently though.
He pawed at the sand for a moment, it was odd, but could be getting used to, he knew that, it was very much like snow, but not cold, and it didn't seem to melt. It only seemed to shift upon pressure and the wind.
"Besdes, if they do come...I'll drive them away...they took me from my family, I won't let them take me from here..."from you... Ugh should he just say that stuff? Wrigley wasn't positively sure...
He smiled and tilted his head at her words about her uncle being mad at her, he wished he would have someone to randomly be mad at him...family, would be nice. He smiled though, none the less,
"If he is angry...it will pass won't it? Grudges can't be held forever, life is too short for that, you never know what could come your way..." he replied cooly, his ears tilting slightly, "But if you believe later is a better time, I do understand Cassidy."
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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 5:55 pm
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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 6:03 pm
He smiled softly at her, quite nice she was, but so concerned on how her uncle viewed her, watched her, how he was angry. Cassidy shouldn't have to worry so much, no one should, least that's what Wrigley believed. He curled his tail now and then and carefully listened to her words and not to get distracted by the wonders all around him.
Wrigley made note though of how Cassidy believed he would never be taken away, he would make sure of that, "I know they wouldn't be able to get me...they took me once before, but that didn't crush my pride as a wolf, and my instincts tell me I belong here, not with them, not at all...I like it here." He stated with a smile, ears arching back somewhat.
"Cassidy would not be forcing this one into anything, not at all. But if you believe a walk around would be a good idea, I would not resist, this place is so...so different from what I am used to..." He stood up and shook his fur somewhat, to clear the sand from his poofy exterior, "Though I do believe swimmng it out of the question...with my fur I'll either sink or become even more of a fuzzball when I come out and dry off," he smirked, poofing himself up a bit.
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