Post by rainstar on Mar 18, 2008 21:18:08 GMT -5
The plop plop of dripping water echoed relentlessly around the stone pipe walls, gathering in a tainted puddle that trickled menacingly from the darkness. The foul stench of sewage and sickness, blended with the scent of blood, hung inthe still air. Only the faint rasping of a dying wolf's shallow breath broke the heavy silence in the cold, damp refuge. Blood seeped from the black creature's mangled leg and mouth, soaking her fur and tainting the water with sinister red plumes.
A rat scurried by the heap of blood and fur, stopping to investigate the wreckage with caution. Seeing no harm from the wounded beast, the vermin set to chewing one of the soft black ears. With a sickening crunch that echoed in throughout the cavernous pipe like a gunshot, dripping fangs snatched up the rat, which emitted a shrill squeak of terror. Icey blue eyes opened halfway as the wolf swallowed the sour meal painfully, for it was the first thing she had eaten in days. The ptitiful scrap of rat meat was not enough to cover the bones that were visible beneath her matted black fur, but it was enough to keep her alive for at least one more day...
Athabasca shook the painful memories from her head as she padded drearily away from the forest's edge and back toward the mines to wait for Exodus' return. The thoughts scattered like dry leaves as as Taurus' voice rang out into the clear air.
“Athabasca, please go to Drarynough and meet the she-wolf who howled earlier. I’ll shall meet you in the dens later.”
Athabasca threw her eyes and lifted her maw to the sky in response before trotting off toward the Drarynough lands to meet this new femme.
A rat scurried by the heap of blood and fur, stopping to investigate the wreckage with caution. Seeing no harm from the wounded beast, the vermin set to chewing one of the soft black ears. With a sickening crunch that echoed in throughout the cavernous pipe like a gunshot, dripping fangs snatched up the rat, which emitted a shrill squeak of terror. Icey blue eyes opened halfway as the wolf swallowed the sour meal painfully, for it was the first thing she had eaten in days. The ptitiful scrap of rat meat was not enough to cover the bones that were visible beneath her matted black fur, but it was enough to keep her alive for at least one more day...
Athabasca shook the painful memories from her head as she padded drearily away from the forest's edge and back toward the mines to wait for Exodus' return. The thoughts scattered like dry leaves as as Taurus' voice rang out into the clear air.
“Athabasca, please go to Drarynough and meet the she-wolf who howled earlier. I’ll shall meet you in the dens later.”
Athabasca threw her eyes and lifted her maw to the sky in response before trotting off toward the Drarynough lands to meet this new femme.