tattered blood

[Ayasha]

Brown hues darted through the forest, golden orbs scanned the ground. It was the preditorial instinct that led the young varg through his home. Skep, with the long abscence of his father had become determined to teach himself to hunt, found that he had learned little from his own teachings. It was difficult for the he varg to learn such a vital thing when he had little experience. But he was determined to somehow learn. His siter Chilaili was handicapped with what Skep viewed as something Tor and Fenris had blessed her with. Though it seemed little of a blessing and rather a curse, Skep tried to look upon the matter with opptimism. Though Chilaili was nearly blind she seemed to see everything and ddn't take anything for granted.

This was all the more reason for Skep to learn to hunt so he could show his elder sister how mmature he was. Skep's cousins, born of Koan and Lydair, as he had come to wonder had possibly already learned to hunt and were ahead of him. but he wasn't sure so he kept his mind on his task at hand. Ayasha on the other hand, wished not to accompany her brother, she would rather sulk. Which for Skep was fine.

His thoughts vanished as his auds twitched. Up ahead the branches of a bush quivered. Skep tensed his muscles and narrowed his eyes. Determined to catch whatever was hiding. He slunk to the ground, furred belly brushing the dirt but noiselessly. Salivia started to dribble from his black lips as he neared the bush. His heart began to pump faster, he could feel his pulse n his neck. He could barely stand the slow creep he made. Nearer he crawled till he was nearly upon the bush. His tender nose took in the scent of hare, just beyond his vision. He tucked his hind quaters down and sprung over the bush with a growl. Dust flew up as a brown blur hit the ground.

Skep coughed and lept to his feet, to hs dismay the hare had gone and had left him for a foolish varg that could not survive alone. "Merely lucky because I live in a pack and that I can have a meal brought to me. My father wasn't around to teach me. Though he promised to when he got back from his next duty." Ashamed that the hare had succeeded in living the brown varg trotted away from his unfortunate attempt. As Skep grew he could begin to define his personality as bits taken from his parents. From his father he got a slightly rebellious side which brought him to try to hunt on his own. He preffered to look at what his father gave him, including his height. Still angered, and sad that his attempt had brought him nothing, Skep trotted to a small group of rocks where he could perch and possibly find a nother hare.

[Yelæ]

The white Sikla of Ge-Rad had been wandering aimlessly about the packlands, searching for a meal herself. She was hungry, but the warm breath of air that announced Sping's arrival had caused her to become better in mood. The grayness of winter had caused her to be sullen, but the excitement of earth's rebirth put almost every Varg into a good mood. The red-breasted female was still abnormally thin and frail, though, for this winter was not a good one.

At first she had hoped to spend it lovingly with her mate by her side, but the change of events caused her to becomed more distant from her Beta mate. Also, the announcement of her becoming a Sikla, the lowest rank in the pack, was also a downfall, and was ashamed to show her face to her mate. How could a respectful Beta Male have a Sikla as a mate?

Sighing, she shakes her head to rid herself of the reminiscing. The Alphas' cub was gone, both in fact. One killed by a wildcat or something, and the other taken by Man. Thus was the reasoning for their Alpha Male's departure, and they were left to be led by an equally mournful Drappa. Things have not been going well, for despite the flourishing population of Ge-Rad (it was the most populated pack in these lands) many were a loss of words. Yelae looking at the bad side of things, had a vague feeling of something amiss, but shrugged it off.

The sudden flash of brown caught her eye, it was a hare. In the midst of her thought, she had missed the fact that Cal's cub had been making an attempt to hunt, but all she knew was that a hare was running before her, and that her legs were moving skillfully to chase it. Instinct took over, and that year of being a Kerl had done her good. The hare may have been fast, but the recent shock of it made it stiff up uncomfortabley.

Taking up the chase, the Sikla began to close in on her prey, the sun hitting her white pelt with grace untill illuminated, her red breast now being noticabley darker to a deep red-orange rather than dim as it had been for the past winter months. She was at all her glory, her prime, and though the Sikla, she was still a Varg. Nothing could change that.

Growling, she gained on it, and soon enough...a squeal of terror and it was over. In her maw was the hare, it's cracked neck in her mouth as she holds her kill up proudly. It was only until then she noticed the fact another Varg was with her. Whimpering, she places down her kill, and looks around, spotting the cub. She knew, no matter if she made this kill or not, that this cub had the right to eat before she did. Looking at him with blue-green eyes, she murmurs something to him.

"Here, you can have this..."

((Wh00tness! Your lovely Sikla is back! ^.^))

[Ayasha]

Skep's maw hung open in starlement as he saw anothere varg had grabbed the hare he had been so bet on catching. He knew this varg to be Yelae, she had watched the pups when they were little and he had seen her around recently.

Worse yet the fae offered the cb the kill that she had caught, despte the fact that he had been trying to satisy his hunger. "I don't want it." He looked away from the dead hare.

"Was only trying to teach mself to hunt is all. No one else has, I figured I should." He dipped his muzzle to the ground and scented the earth, spring was coming and that would change the mood of most vargs. Possibly it would change Skep's mood.. With the arrival of spring smaller baby hares would appear and he could learn to hunt on them. He looked back at the she-varg and dipped his head in a friendly gesture after his slightly sullen mood had passed slightly and he felt more dignfied. He eyed the hare again, wishing it had been him who had caught it. After all he ould have been proud to bring it to his elder sister, but she probably had already eaten and would find no use in a dead hare. He sighed.

"What are you doing around here?" he asked, since most of the vargs he had seen had been deeper into the terra rather than were he was. Since the leaving of their Dragga Draeg it was harder to stay in touch with all the vargs. Especilly his father, who Skep knew had a duty to his pack but it was still difficult to not hold a slight bit of anger towards him. Perhpas with sring coming his father would be around more, or maybe not. Either way spring had some hopeful thing to bring to Skep's life.

(((ahhh it's Yelae! yayy you are back)))

[Uskiya]

Uskiya darted through her terra, excitement rippling through her every muscle. Her Dragga had returned and perhaps things would somewhat return to normal. But that was not the cause of her excitement. Spring was here and the cold hard winter had gone, her three pups were healthy and for the most part happy. Ayasha was breaking off on her own, but she still remained hard and unbreakab;e. But her brother was able to hold a decent talk with her. Chilaili was around, though Uskiya had seen little of her daughter. Still though, the nurse couldn't help but feel happy.

Uskiya stopped and cocked her head. Off in the distant she could hear voices. One of them sounded Skep and the other sounded like Yelae,. Shako's mate. Her tail wagged and she silently trotted off to investigate.

Her golden orbs rested upon the sleek form of Yelae running after something. By the smell of it a hare. Following somewhat behind came Skep. Uskiya gave a quiet whine as she guessed what had happened. Her son had been trying to hunt but had been unsuccesful. She waited silently till both vargs had stopped. She padded from out of her spot and walked up to both vargs. She had seen Yelae offer the hare to Skep, nd he had refused. "Now Skep it isn't nice to refuse such a nice offer. You could offer it back to her if you didn't want it." She gave a chuckle. "Hello Yelae, it's been a while. How are you?" She genly sat back on her haunches and shook her bodice.