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second star to the right - Everly - Jan 06, 2017 @Aleksei <3
"That grumpy guy is your brother? Jeez. I feel bad for you, girl." Trotting merrily through the snow, Everly felt so incredibly tiny compared to the absurdly tall trees all around her, and had done since first entering this forest. It had a kind of peaceful grandiosity to it, powerful but dignified. Not at all the kind of setting she'd expect to find her wayward sibling, but this was where she'd been guided, so this was where she'd come, and so it would be either until her (admittedly quite extensive) patience wore thin or she finally tracked him down. "'e was 'eaded in tha' direction when ah lef' 'im, if'n ah recalled rightly. Didn' much care ta take note, though, sorry. Kinda just 'oped ah'd never 'ave ta fink about 'im again." It had been hard getting used to waking up everyday in a different place, without the warmth and comfort and scent of her family all around her. She missed the den, how her uncles snored in tandem, how the sunlight bounced off the stream straight into her eyes as if in special morning greeting just for her. "You're looking for Askan? Seemed like the type to be left well alone, really... had to stop myself from biting his nose off his face. My mate wouldn't have approved. He should be thankful she's so soft-hearted." "Sel-what? No, sorry, I've not - wait, maybe... there was a guy, might've given that name, but he snapped at me to mind my own business so I left him alone. Could that be him?" "Seemed in a sorry state to me. Pretty hungry. Was up for hunting together but my two kids are already miserable sods and I have to see them everyday, I didn't need more of that kind of negativity, I'll go mad. Seemed to be heading roughly south, if that helps?" "Doing a grand job of spreading the family spirit," she muttered to herself, eyes bright and skyward as she gazed at the treetops far above. "Giving us such a great reputation. It's a good thing mam and me love you so much, twinkletoes." Or otherwise we'd let you sulk out here forever, she thought, but that was a lie; even if she wasn't biologically immune to her brother's charming ways, family was family, and they all agreed that he'd been enjoying this little 'I'm running away from home so don't stop me!!!' tantrum for long enough. Judging by the reactions of those wolves who had crossed his path, he'd hardly been out making friends. Not that that surprised anyone at all. Askan was a very particular brand, an acquired taste. Just so long as he'd not managed to get himself killed, things were fine. Ignoring how awful that would make her feel - just imagining the look on her parents' faces at the news was enough to wipe the sunshine from her eyes. But he wasn't that stupid. Pretty stupid, but not that stupid. Whistling a soft tune between her tongue and teeth, so the sound might keep herself company, she kept an eye and ear open and alert. She hadn't followed his trail this far without paying attention. RE: second star to the right - Aleksei - Jan 08, 2017 sorry for the wait on this! Also, @Lachesis, tagging to let you know I'm assuming that Lach would have updated Aleksei on pack goings-on (Naia's death, Karina's leaving, Atropos and Kyrios, etc). Happy to edit that if you're unhappy with that, though. ♥
On seeing the clear weather and thick snow covering the forest floor, Aleksei had left Hearthwood's borders with the intention of tracking down potential prey. Whilst he had been doing his bit to keep the caches stocked with hares, muskrat, and a few other rodents that remained active in winter, he couldn't in his right mind deny that they all needed a little more meat than the small critters provided, especially considering the worst of winter was just upon them. He was sure that Inna would be up for bringing down a deer, not to mention the pups—Lachesis' pups. RE: second star to the right - Everly - Jan 09, 2017 @Aleksei So used to the trails and territories of home, Everly was still getting used to having to really pay attention to pack markers and borders and all that stuff. It wasn't that she liked to trespass or deliberately disrespect anyone, but... she'd grown up knowing exactly who and where their neighbours were, where the neutral places were, where they weren't supposed to go. She very much enjoyed all this meeting-so-many-new-wolves business, but hadn't anticipated just how much a wolf on their own out in the big wide world had to pay attention to everything! It was a good thing she was so smart, she thought with a pleased tingle which travelled down her spine and ended in a flourish of her tail. And if Askan could do it - he who had once tried to take cover in a supposedly-but-definitely-not-empty badger den because of his dumb nose - then she certainly could! Chance could have meant that she'd have wandered on by without noticing her silent observer, merry and oblivious, but it was down to chance that she happened to glance in his direction and with a light "oh!" she spotted him. What a handsome tawny man he was too. Her tail rose in pleasure to wave merrily behind her, paws lifting just that bit higher as she danced towards him, not giving two hoots about his silence. She was so used to starting conversation on a whim that it was utterly normal to her, even if she didn't normally talk to pure strangers with this frequency. The things she did for love. "Heya!" she chirped, "can I be a pest and steal a heartbeat of your time? I think I've gotten lost again and turned myself around, could you be a total sweetie and help a girl out?" RE: second star to the right - Aleksei - Jan 10, 2017 Oh my god, I love her ♥
Re: - Spirit of Wildwood - Jan 10, 2017 A young deer has been separated from the rest of its herd. Hunt Opportunity RE: second star to the right - Everly - Jan 16, 2017 <33 @Aleksei
During her entire travels so far, Everly could count on her limbs the number of wolves who had been entirely unreceptive to her charms, and probably couldn't count high enough the number who had been more accommodating. As a wolf surrounded by others who loved her (and coddled her, not that she saw it that way) being able to be firm and forward and lovely and get exactly what she wanted was just something that Everly Selwyn took for granted. So when the young man's tail rose to mimic her own, and he replied so nicely, she knew that sunshine prevailed once again, and grinned happily at him. "I was supposed to find a tundra!" she said, coming to a stop a mostly-respectable distance from the man, her nose trying to tell her that he belonged to a pack in this area but she was far too busy to pay attention to irrelevant things like that. "And I've never actually seen a tundra before, but by the lady's description it certainly isn't... these are sequoia trees, right? Pretty sure that means I'm in the wrong place! Am I totally lost, though, or is there anything like that around here? I could go back and retrace my steps, but that's such a bother." RE: second star to the right - Aleksei - Jan 16, 2017
RE: second star to the right - Everly - Jan 17, 2017 @Aleksei The woman hadn't given her a name for the tundra, only directions and a vague description (because how much detail could she be expected to offer other than 'it's huge and flat and open and covered in snow'?) so 'Larkcall Lowlands' meant nothing to Everly, but she nodded along with it all the same. If it was tundra, then that was right! She knew it had to be around here somewhere! Maybe once she was out of the trees, things would be easier to see. She didn't waste much time wondering what she would do once she was in the tundra, for her directions ran out at that point, but she'd cross that fjord when she came to it. North, thinning trees, lowlands... her head bobbed up and down with each new direction, a little dismayed at the idea of going back the way she had come, even if only a little. How many days of her life had she wasted looping back to try again after getting lost? Not to mention the ghastly number of days she'd lost on this search at all, even if she'd known exactly where her brother was hiding and had been able to go like the crow flies. And how many days ahead were there? Would she even find him before the snows cleared? Would she get back in time to see the daffodils bloom? What about the summer lilies?! But she knew better than to get ahead of herself, because this encounter wasn't over yet! Just like so many polite, charming wolves before him, the young man inquired as to the purpose of her journey, and she smiled at him, sweet as honey. "Why, I'm looking for my brother," she said, and sighed a little sigh at her own gallant adventure. "I've been following his trail for nearly a whole moon, it feels like! He's dark-furred, a little bigger than me, but we've got the same eyes..." And she stepped forward and blinked her lashes at the tawny yearling so he might get a good look, before laughing and tilting her head with a coy wink. "Askan Selwyn, moon of my life. Don't suppose you've seen him?" This wasn't the tundra so she didn't think it likely, but she hadn't gotten this far by being stingy about where she cast her net. At least when she was told 'no', she still had a solid direction to be travelling in from here. RE: second star to the right - Aleksei - Jan 21, 2017 @Everly, don't mind Alek. He's just a smelly dork.
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