for @Kobe :o time for sahalie's famous "ice skating"
The frozen water spread out before her made her heart ache with longing for her pond back home in Oak Tree Bend, all those days slipping gracefully on the ice. The times with Alastor and Kyna had been the best. Her heart fluttered in her chest, stirred by the happy memory, and the girl realized she was smiling. It had been so cold for weeks now she was the spring was frozen solid, and the ice tempted her. Without knowing why, the girl looked around before feeling rather foolish: she did not care if anyone saw her, she had never cared if anyone saw her. Perhaps she was just afraid that it was not a free lake and this was not a free territory. There had been scent trails of other wolves miles back. There were so many new things to be afraid of now that she didn't have the safety of a pack at her heels. Sahalie told herself that Alastor would probably be along shortly. The ice slipping would cheer him up, too, she felt as her paws began to shuffle out onto the frosted surface.
Slipping gracefully was a little harder than she remembered. Last winter she had taken to the ice like a duck to water, but now she found her legs unsteady beneath her like she was a newborn calf. The magic was nearly gone. It was the confidence that had been taken from her, she knew, as nearly everything she knew about herself had been left behind in the mists of Spectral Woods. But the things she possessed by magic as a child, she knew, could be brought back with hard work and a, "Positive Attitude. Stay Positive," she recited once again.
Gently, her back leg pushed off the ice and she drifted forward. Not as fast as she would have liked and not just like old times, but her body did not tremble dangerously on her legs and it felt just a little familiar to her. Her smile deepened.
(This post was last modified: Dec 29, 2016, 03:35 PM by Sahalie.)