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 Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 11:29 am
 Her stumpy ear swivvelled backwards as she stepped out of pack boundaries and slipped through the foliage. Spring had brought with it fresh flowers and grass and bird song so exubriant that her heart hummed along.
She moved with a skip in her step, her silvery fur flowing back in the breeze. She raised her muzzle to the sky and for a moment fancied she saw the image of her old alpha playing in the sunbeams. Then with a blink the image was gone. Yet the wolfess remained smiling.
You are still with me, aren't you dearest? She whispered, her voice gentle on the breeze.
She was a large female, exceptionally large, and held within her eyes a hint of mystery. She moved with grace and perfection, each paw moving silently across the ground. She was a rare beauty to behold, not a speck of dirt on her pristine coat, though perhaps this was because she lived by the water.
She paused and shook her fur and the bell at her throat rang true.
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Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 11:53 am
 The little jet and brown pup felt truely rebellious as she left the safety of her packlands. She knew her parents would scold her severely on her return, but the little female wanted adventure, something to go home and boast about, like her brothers did all the time. So here she was, Vashti of the Tian Tang, in unchartered, and thankfully unclaimed lands. Sure she was small, smaller then her brothers now, but she was big of heart and courage. More to the point was that she feared nothing. She had never had the need to learn fear, wrapped in safety as she was in her packlands, so she saw every wolf she met as someone new to play with, someone to become friends with. That was just Vashti's way, she saw no need to hate, to fight. She just wanted to play, pure and simple.
As she trotted into the wider expanses of grassland, the muddy looking pup started to pick up the scent of other wolves, of all ages, packs and she could even discern some genders. Looking up, nose tilted to the winds coming at her face, Vashti looked up at the sky, noting the dancing clouds. She had heard stories that said that the clouds were ancestors watching over you, their souls given tempory body to show direction. The same was with stars, the eyes of the ancestors watching over you as you slept or travelled, making sure you always had enough light to see by. Grinning, her tongue lolling out of the side of her mouth as she watched for a moment, she started to trot a little further when her ears perked at the sound of a bell, jangling none too far away. She stopped, listening intently. What was that? Surely there were no two-leg here? Her parents had warned of two-legs who owned distant relations to the wolf, known as dog, and sometimes they made their companions where bells so that they could flush game, like the wolf did when it ran through thickets barking.
Taking a few steps, Vashti whined low in her throat to announce her presence, looking around at the expances of tall grass, thickets and undergrowth, trying to discern where the ringing was coming from. She didn't want to howl her presence, because if it was a two-leg, she knew she had to run, even if her curiosity wanted to be sated. She lowered herself, her colouring causing her to become almost one with the dusty ground and thickets that she was surrounded by. Her one trick, disappearance, was one she had perfected in her games of hide and seek with her siblings.
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Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 2:28 pm
Her tattered left ear twitched almost in reflex and slowly the female straightened, turning her wise gaze out across the hedgerow. Her senses tingled and as she scented the air she felt the wind stroking around an unknown body. It seemed to call to her now, whistling around that form and bringing it's scent to the wolfess' nose. She rarely missed anything, especially not a wolf who had not yet learned to use the wind to it's advantage.
However, Tainn was a kindly soul and she had nothing much to fear. It was lucky if a male matched her size, let alone a female. For Tainn had been raised by humans and had never gone hungry, never suffered the cold before. She was pampered but what the humans had never realised that Tainn was far from tame. She had stayed with them simply out of love for her alpha, not because she felt she needed to stay.
Hello? She called, her voice soft. Has the sun roused a fellow wolfkin to this domain? She turned fully and lowered her head, snuffling a little louder now. She knew the wolf was somewhere close but she couldn't distinguish where.
I will not bare fangs to one of the kin. She continued, and Tainn never would, not unless friend or family be threatened. And Moons help those who angered this wild beast, for if those she loved came into harm she would be swift into action.
She would fight till the end.
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