@Gilligan
notes: this thread takes place slightly north of FTC on the map. They haven't been to PP yet because I didn't want Datura to be all like "wtf why do I smell Belladonna" just yet.
notes: this thread takes place slightly north of FTC on the map. They haven't been to PP yet because I didn't want Datura to be all like "wtf why do I smell Belladonna" just yet.
"Just a little farther," he said breathlessly as his paws slipped against the sloping ground littered with pine needles. They were making their way down the vague incline that lead to the lake basin. He could remember playing here with @Belladonna when they were younger, though none of these trees seemed familiar enough to rouse any concrete memories. They all seemed so much larger than when he was a cub, and there was so much new growth. He shrugged. This was not quite home, anyway. It did not matter if he could not remember it so well: it was just a forest. But soon this would be his domain, and this time he would commit it to heart.
Odd smells fluttered past his nose on the breeze. It was not the scent of Athena, but it was the scent of a wolf. It didn't seem unreasonable that their scent could have changed during the years he had been away. Over his shoulder, he indicated with a flick of his muzzle for Gilligan to quit fussing around with whatever he was doing and follow him. The trail grew stronger as they pressed south, but eventually it started to veer off more to the west. Datura glanced to his right. Squinting through the trees he could make out the vague shimmer of the lake. They were headed the wrong way.
This could have been chalked up to just some strange, wandering loner if it were not for the fact that the scent had been continually added to by the trails of others. They had not yet reached any borders yet, but it was becoming abundantly clear that they were headed towards some collection of wolves. But these wolves did not live where they should have lived.
He came to a stop very suddenly.
"This is very strange."
He did not know what it meant.