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 Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 8:00 pm
 There are times in a wolf's life when she must do things through necessity--run to save herself, hunt to feed herself, sleep to rest herself. There are other times, though; times when a wolf is safe and full and well, and she can do things for the pleasure of doing them.
Adriana found that safety through her pack, the Liens. The pack's name meant 'bonds,' but she felt less restricted here than ever, with the freedom to do her own thing and live her own life. To live it for the pleasure of it.
She was young, though, and never prone to viewing her life so philosophically. If asked why she was enjoying herself, she wouldn't have had a true answer. Because. That was why.
Right now, she was fishing. When on her own, fishing was mostly how she had sustained herself--it was a kind of hunting she could do by herself, and one she was used to. Now? She didn't really have to fish--she just enjoyed it. Granted, these streams weren't stocked with the kind of food she was familiar with--the giant crayfish found in the south--but the smaller ones found here would do.
She lay on her belly on the side of a stream, somewhere in no-man's-land where Liens sometimes marked, sometimes didn't, olive eyes watching the water. If one of the tiny crustaceans crept into view, she swiftly batted a piebald paw in the water, scooping it onto the shore. One bite to the back of the neck and it was dead, all without ever using its claws on her, and she was free to snap off its head. Holding it between her two front paws, she sucked out the sweet insides, then crunched down on the tail, only to repeat the process.
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Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 3:15 pm
 Sil had once more strayed from the safety of her pack lands - it was a habit she'd picked up as a small pup and one she continued to feed now that she had grown into a rather gangly looking teen. It was in fact not entirely unusual for her to slink off for a couple of days at a time as she explored further and further into the lands of Telk.
These explorations had led to some rather strange encounters such as the buff colored wolf with her uttered warning...and who could forget Korrigan with her metal gauntlet? These close calls had not seemed to tame her wanders soul however..nor her typically positive outlook on those she ran across.
And so it was with her typical cheerful expression that she found herself trotting down the bank of a meandering stream, paws crunching rhythmically in the gravelly shoreline, head up and tail floating out behind her as she bounced along in that typical long-legged gait of teen wolves.
She rounded a corner just in time to see the flashing paw of the monochrome wolf scoop something out of the water and crunch it down - she'd seen fishing of course...but even in the brief sight she'd had of the prey as it flashed through the air had been enough to tell her it didn't look like any fish. How very interesting...She thought to herself slowing slightly until she came to a stop a few paces away from the strange wolf.
"What are you hunting?" She asked with the bluntness typical of teens.
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Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 5:28 pm
So concentrated had she been in her hunting that Adriana failed to notice the approach of the teen, though this too pointed to the safety she had in her life now--she simply didn't have to be on her guard every moment of every day. She looked up quickly, but assessed that the wolf who had spoken was young, and from her actions obviously not a thread. Adriana herself was not that far out of her adolescence, and she liked the pink-and-gray female right off the bat. She appreciated blunt.
"Crawdaddies," she answered, her drawling accent obvious. She flicked one ear in the female's direction by way of greeting. "Did you want one?"
She didn't look back down at the stream, her interest now in her visitor. "Didn't yo' momma teach you t' introduce yourself before askin' questions?" The query was rhetorical. Ignoring the blatant hypocrisy, Adriana quickly followed it up--"I'm Adriana. What brings you here?" There were rarely strangers in these parts, aside from that fellow Blank who'd showed up in the snows.
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Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 5:55 pm
Sil tipped her head to the side slightly as the other wolf spoke - what a lovely and interesting accent she had. Padding a few steps forward she let her gaze tick down into the water - though she didn't spot any of these so called crawdaddies.
"I don't even know what a cradaddie is" She confessed after a few moments before settling herself on her haunches and wrapping her tail over her toes "Oh I"m sure that was contained in a lecture at some point" Sil remarked with a Wolfy grin "I'm Silhouette..but most call me Sil, I'm just out and exploring - gets dull sitting around the pack lands all the time, they tend to be a bit...cloying once in a while"
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Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 3:46 pm
Hmf. Adriana could certainly agree on the dull packlands bit. What was Sirius up to? But at least this would be a little excitement in her life. Adriana liked the perky, defiant female.
"Crawdaddies," she explained, "are big shrimps, with big pinchers, and delicious tails. An' if you bite off their heads, you can suck out the inside." She wasn't interested in hunting anymore, though, now that she had social contact. She backpedaled with her forefeet to rise up on her haunches and face her guest.
"Where you come from, Sil?" she asked. She'd never gotten acquainted with any of the packs in the area. "Y' got a family, in yo' pack?" Certainly not her own family, she was a little young for that, but parents and siblings.
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Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 8:07 am
Silhouette now armed with a description of these crawdaddie creatures glanced back into the water, furrowing her brow slightly she searched for movement within the blurry water, and after a few moments was rewarded with something that despite the blur resembled the Adriana's description, making a little hmm sound of discovery now that she had seen one, her attention turned back to the other wolf.
"Five siblings and a mother" She recited..she supposed it was still a decently sized family regardless of the lack of a father figure, something Sil had grown accustomed to growing up. "Though the rest of the pack is pretty much extended family I suppose, my mother is the adopted daughter of the Akiki Chibale Alpha, they mean well....but one can only take so much doting" Sil continued with a slight snort, she was ever so glad to be grown enough that these excursions out of packs lands - while not exactly liked by her family, were at least not occasion for full on family panic any longer.
"How about yourself? Belong to a large pack? have a family?"
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Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 9:25 am
Akiki Chibale? Adriana had never heard of it, but then again, she'd been rather insular since she'd come to these northern lands.
It sounded like a nice family. Still, she could certainly sympathize with feeling smothered. She'd felt the same with her own family, just for different reasons. It wasn't so much the doting but the restrictions and instead of wandering sometimes, she'd just run away. But, having just a mother sounded nice. It was the kind of family dynamic Adriana would have preferred.
"Oh, my pack isn't that big," she said with a light roll of her shoulders. That was an understatement. It seemed to be just herself and Sirius at the moment. "And I had a mother and father and siblings, but... they all live very far to the south." Where they could stay, in her opinion.
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Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 10:35 am
Something in Adriana's tone led Sil to believe that she wasn't very fond of the family she had left behind, of course she could also just be drawing conclusions that weren't there - it was hard to tell when you were talking to a wolf you had just met after all. While Sil enjoyed wandering once and again - she wasn't sure if she could ever completely leave her family as Adriana apparently had, she had no idea where she would even go and Sil thought it a fairly brave move on the other wolf's part.
"Must have been a pretty exciting trip, traveling all the way up here" She remarked after pondering the other wolfs answer for a few moments "I don't think I've ever been more then a day or so away from home myself, and my aunt would probably launch a full scale panicked search if I did" She concluded with a tinge of amusement - a small part of her wondered just how such a thing really would play out.
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Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 6:24 pm
Adriana threw her head back and howled with laughter at Sil's statement. Exciting was perhaps an understatement, or maybe an overstatement--some days it wasn't so much exciting as purely terrifying. Still, there was a little bit of guilt there, too. Had her parents put out a panicked search party for her? Though, it wasn't as if Adriana hadn't been threatening to run away her whole puppyhood. In fact, she had already tried once. Maybe her family had just gotten tired of chasing after it. It was obvious Adriana had not been happy at home.
"Exciting?" she echoed, once she'd calmed down. "You don' know th' half of it, darlin'. Why…" A grin started to form on her lips. "Why, one time, I was runnin' up the river lookin' for food and I ran -- SMAK! -- into a group o' two-leggers. They had all kind o' pelts hangin' 'round 'em, so I didn't smell 'em 'til I was right on top of 'em! I high-tailed it right outta there. Although," she added, with a smirk, "I think they were as scared o' me as I was of them."
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Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 7:09 am
Sil seemed suitably impressed with Adriana's story - two-leggers?! she'd heard of them sure, but she'd never actually seen any and from some of the stories she wasn't sure she ever wanted to. They just seemed a bit strange...and someone had once told her they liked to keep wolves as servants or something and call them 'dogs'. Sil wasn't to keen on becoming a servant.
"Well if they're smart they would have been" She agreed "An angry wolf is just something nobody want's to deal with" she concluded with a slight nod of her head. thinking back she made a hmming sound "I met a wolf once with a strange contraption on her leg - said it was from the two-leggers. She was a bit strange, but she brought me home after I got washed down the river" Alright so she hadn't exactly been washed so much as fell in and got stuck trying to crawl up the steep bank - but washed sounded better and it was true enough. And she really had met Korrigan. "I was just a pup at the time" She concluded as an after thought - couldn't have Adriana thinking something that silly had happened to her recently after all. She had far outgrown such problems.
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Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 10:57 am
Adriana snorted softly. She didn't really trust any wolf that chose to wear something the two-leggers made unnaturally. But, maybe the wolf Sil had met was trapped with whatever was on her leg. That would be a terrible fate... but a wolf to be pitied, not scorned. No wonder she was a bit strange.
"Well, I hope you're not permanently scared o' water," she said. With a bit of teasing laughter, she dipped her paw into the stream and splashed some onto the earth by Sil's feet. "That would be terrible! It's so much fun."
To prove her point, and so there were no hard feelings about anyone getting wet, she stood and bunched her muscles before leaping into the center of the stream. The water splashed up from around her legs and soaked her underbelly.
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Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:02 am
Sil scoffed at the idea of being afraid of the water, well truthfully as a pup she had stayed away from the river for a little while after that event - but she'd been a pup then and you couldn't really blame her now could you? In any case she'd long ago outgrown such a silly fear and arched a brow slightly as Adriana splashed her and then jumped into the water. So thats how it was going to be huh?
Sil gave a Wolfy grin before standing and giving a little shake, she glanced off into the distance as though trying to decide if she had somewhere else to be - she didn't, it was merely a ruse to lure Adriana into a false sense of security. When she felt she'd played the part long enough she gave a sudden bark and leapt into the water herself, smacking at the water with her front paw to splash Adriana."Pft...I'm not afraid of anything" she answered with a grin.
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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 12:27 pm
At first, Adriana was a bit disappointed that her friendly overture had fallen flat. Sil looked like she had somewhere else to be and didn't want to stay and play. But it was all just a ruse. Adriana laughed as the water hit her chest. Her bedraggled wet tail swung loosely and happily behind her.
"Not anything?" she teased. "What about humans? What about... zombies?"
She sloshed through the water, dragging her sodden legs. The streams here were much colder than the ones she was used to, but she still enjoyed getting wet and swimming. She never feared drowning; swimming was something she learned early.
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Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 7:01 am
Sil was feeling rather pleased with herself about fooling Adriana into thinking she wasn't going to play, it always amused her when she managed to catch others off guard - it was hard to do with her siblings and her Aunt Twix as well...Sil was pretty sure that no one ever caught Twix off guard, ever.
Sinking own in the water Sil blew bubbles with her snout for a few moments, contemplating her answer. "Well..i don't think I'd stick around if I saw humans, but I don't run through the woods worrying about meeting them" she finally responded before adding with a slight smirk. "And Zombies don't really exist! Those are just scary stories"
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Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 7:37 am
Adriana watched the youngster form her response. For all her silliness, she seemed rather serious. At least, she took what she said seriously.
"But zombies are real!" Adriana said. "You gotta be careful t' keep yo' dead down." Her accent got a little thicker. "Why do you think wolves tell stories?"
She put her tail out flat behind her and crept through the shallows toward Sil. "Y' gotta be careful out in th' woods at night, that y' respect the dead," she rumbled. "Otherwise they come outta the ground and GETCHA!" She lept in the water and made a great splash, getting both females all wet.
She could joke about it now during the day, but voodoo ran in this wolf's veins; she did believe the dead could walk. Hopefully they weren't upset when she made a bit of a joke about it.
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