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 Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:21 pm
He could read eyes as well? She'd heard of reading minds, of course, having a seer in the pack, but reading eyes was something completely new. Her own emerald auds widened considerably at the information, especially at the name 'Rally'. She'd met her before! How small a world it must be.
"Oh! I'm sorry, si-Adolpho. Please excuse my informality." The pup dipped her head bashfully, profusely apologizing. "I'm called Flame."
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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 7:00 pm
"That is very OK, don't fret about it too much. I just like to know those that either learn from me, or that I learn from," he stated casually and looked towards Flame. "I don't expect this all to be learned in one day, that would be just ludicrous, but you can gain some good skills today and practice them." He nodded and moved back towards the darker shadows in his stealth steps.
"To become a ghost in the woods, you have to know everything that is going on around you first, Flame. After you have learned your surroundings, then you need to learn how to walk through the woods or any common area, with out making much noise."
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 6:02 pm
The pup nodded softly, obeying him as he spoke and said nothing more about it. Submission came before realization, manners before personal opinion. That's how she assumed it was with everyone. With a soft nod the femme leaned forward curiously, then watching as he stood and started away.
Was she supposed to follow him? It'd be rude not to, she thought. With a moments hesitance the pup stood and followed Adolfo, growing slightly wary as her vision became darker and darker. As much as she liked being not noticed, did it have to be in such dark corners? She was quite unsure of how anyone could find their way around here and even know what was lurking around in the shadows.
"But.." she spoke softly, stopping herself as she tried to get used to her voice breaking the silence.
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 5:19 pm
Adolfo circled around the other in dead silence, he had figured she would follow even though she had no idea what these woods were like. A half smile came up to his maw, she had a lot of guts for a pup, a lot.
"You're brave," he stated from behind her, laying down a little off of the small path that she had just walk. "You have a question however," His green eye reflecting the slight of light in the dark.
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Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 12:02 pm
With the lack of scent or anything able to be distinguished in the dark Flame swallowed, each step placed more carefully and precisely, the pup attempting to make as least noise as possible.
But learning ones surrounding was hard when you had no idea where you were, the femme realized soon enough. Her head flicked back and forth, a whimper-like call out to Adolfo growing in her throat. But what if he was right ahead of her? She'd look like a total scaredy-cat, and he wouldn't want to teach her at all.
The voice from behind startled her, and with a quick stiffening the pup rolled over onto her back to show her belly in an instinctive submissive posture. "N-No I'm not." She replied, slowly sitting back up once more as she looked towards the shadow that was her teacher. How could she just freeze up like that? She must've looked like such a fool, being scared of his own voice!
"I-I was just wondering..." Flame swallowed softly. "The woods are so big... How do you know what's going on around you?"
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Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 12:39 pm
Watching with great interest, Adolfo hadn't seen another so adamant about blending in as he had been. With a twitch of his nose, he had head plenty in this area run into the most obvious of trees, well obvious to him. It was natural, wolves were not meant to be exactly one-hundred percent nocturnal.
His ears perked at the sound of the soft whimper, this whipping the smile from his maw immediately. No matter how much the teen liked his space, he didn't like to see others distressed. It pained his naturally warm heart, regardless to the amount of shadows that surrounded it.
At the sound of his voice, and the instinctive show of submission, the male's mud covered ears moved back. "Yes, you are. Not even my sisters have tried to follow me into the unknown darkness around here. Yet, you followed with out even being told to, or instructed." Adolfo stepped forward and rolled Flame back right-side up. "My brother sticks to the shore, where the daylight shines brightly, so he isn't one for the dark woods either," he continued to state.
At the flame pelted femme's quivering question, Adolfo hesitated on telling the real answer. The last time he told someone that the shadows and darkness whispered to him, telling him what was inside the woods, he was scolded by a shaman that spoke to the trees.
"I listen carefully to the sounds around me, and until I figured out where the trees where in the blackest of night areas, I walked very cautiously as you were." He stated, deciding to go with partial truths.
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Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 12:53 pm
His first answer surprised the young pup greatly. Not even his siblings had? Once before Flame had briefly met another wolf a little ways from these pack-lands, Rally, and upon learning that they were siblings (which still surprised her quite a bit), she still couldn't believe it. Rally seemed to be afraid of nothing! Bouncing around and happily exploring any terrain beneath her paws.
After he rolled her back over, Flame couldn't help but feel a bit of pride swelling in her chest.
"D-Did you ever hit anything?" She inquired softly, quite curious. If it was dark one was bound to ram into something or other.
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 4:34 pm
It was true, somewhat, nothing scared his sister, well as long as she had Shelby around. If she thought something was wrong with their sister, then the hyper she-wolf could show a rare side. However, being the wolf that he was, he saw more things then he let on and just wagged his dark tail.
The thought of his first venture in the woods made him laugh, "Yes, I did indeed."
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Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 12:24 pm
His burst of laughter no longer surprised her as much as it did calm her and reassure, and the pup found herself smiling up at her teacher, pleased by his mood.
"Bu....Do you hit anything anymore?"
Flame inquired once more, settling down on her haunches. Green auds blinked around in the darkness, ears pricked and tuned to the sound of his voice.
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:51 am
Adolfo nodded again, "I do, when I wander in a new area, but once I've learned the landscape, the joy of having solid surroundings, things are easier. Nothing moves in the forest, unless it is an animal."
Although, Adolfo then made another statement, "But once you reach a certain point, the dark is almost as clear as a sunny day, though the view in daylight become like that of a night to another."
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 9:14 am
The pup obediently bobbed her head alone as he spoke, eyes tuned in on the specific spot where she heard his voice in the darkness. Sooner of later, with quite a bit of squinting involved, Flame assumed she was beginning to see the faint outline of the wolf.
Was this seeing in the dark? Of course, if she didn't have his voice she surely couldn't tell who was there, but the principle was still there.
At his next comment however the femme broke concentration, for a moment having to catch herself as her head was spinning and she felt quite dizzy. Once she'd recovered she cocked her head. "You mean you can't see in the daylight? How is that possible?"
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 11:43 am
Adolfo watched as Flame concentrated on his form, her eyes dimming as the lids slid down to force more light into a small focused location. It was quiet amusing to the teen male, though he did see the concentration break and bewilderment take over.
One of his own ears flickered back at the idea of not being able to see in the day. "Oh, I can see in the day. But not as well in brightly lit areas," Adolfo confessed.
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 1:26 pm
The pup snapped her head back obediently from it's outreached position of awe towards him at the flickered ear, which she was only able to see due to it's lighter coloring from the black of the body. She was used to going on body cues of others instead of words which she scarcely used, and was quickly beginning to apologize and backtrack from the subject when he spoke.
Flame stopped, brow only furrowing more. "Don't your eyes adjust to the light after a while?" She asked quietly. Coming from a pack where caves made up most of the land, she was used not being able to see in bright areas, but only temporarily.
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Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 8:24 pm
The teen then smiled, though he saw her spring up as his ear flickered back. He hadn't meant it as a warning, just a slight gesture of his own confusion. His tail thumped against the ground a couple times and at such observant notions coming from Flame, Adolfo could tell this young one was going to be something great later in life.
"I'm sure if I gave the light a chance, my eyes would adjust again, but truthfully. Unlike other wolves, in the daylight I feel exposed and out in the open, in the woods or in the shadows, their is a sense of security, like what one feels under their mother's paws."
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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 4:11 pm
At the familiar sound of his own tail smacking the ground calmly the pup relaxed, immediately regretting her now seemingly over-reaction to the older male's slightest movements. At times her calculations weren't correct, and she needed no one to chastise her for it, because she did so herself.
"That's the exact opposite from what others feel. Not everyone else, just, some people I know." Of course in this 'group' of 'some people' it was only herself, which she neglected to mention as she had stumbled over her own words. "The dark is just, different. It's unknown and unseen, makes some hesitant." Unconsciously the pup shifted her weight across her legs, glancing around her as if the thought itself released demons into the darkness around them.
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