For Lucivar

[larkaandmorgra]

It was a sunny day with just a hint of the winter still lingering in the breeze. Yawning off last night's sleep, Vienna stretched out her red paws in front of her. Then, in turn, she stretched out both of her back paws too. She was thrilled that she had finally had found her self a place to live at with pack members to care for. But the best of all she was the Nurse, Lucivar's, apprentice! What an important job, to be the one who is responsible in helping your pack mates. "But probably won't ever be as good as Lucivar," she barked to no one in particular. This is going to be great! she sighed sadly, I just hope that everyone here exempts me.

A cold, but soothing breeze, combed through Vienna's fur, causing her to shiver. After another big yawn, Vienna shifted her paws uneasily and neatly curled her fluffy tail around them. Eyes drooping, she thought back to the time when her old Nurse, who had taken on the role as storyteller too, had used to tell her stories of Tor and Fenris. As a child she had always loved when her old Nurse had told her stories. In her dreams, Vienna had always wanted to be a storyteller so she could pass down the stories she was taught. But she had grown fascinated by the Nurse's job in the pack and yearned to do that in helping other wolves instead of harming them.

Then her dream swirled into the time when she had saw a baby bird lying on the forest floor and she just knew she had to help it. Grinning, Vienna chuckled lightly to her self for doing so. It had been hard to climb up that tree, but at least the bird had been in its nest still.

Her dream twisted and turned as her life had before, until it got to the memory of the avalanche. The day her Nurse/storyteller had died along with the rest of her pack…..She remembered the hunger that she had felt during that time. Then when the pack had finally caught a Lera they had howled, but Vienna calmed she had howled the longest and the loudest, which caused the snow to fall, and bared then all. Only she, Vienna, had survived. Being scared, for the second time in her life, caused Vienna to awake from her dream. Her eyes snapped open suddenly, and she whined, “I will never forget that.”

After standing up and stretching again, Vienna said, “I just can’t wait to learn about being a Nurse from my mentor. Maybe then I can prevent deaths and then I would feel so guiltily that I was the cause of my packs deaths.” She sighed and lay down to wait.

[okamiwolf]

Long, slender legs carried the tri-hued she-wolf through the forest of Deor. She weaved around the large and mostly bare brush, she was excited for the spring to come, after all, it would mean new life and the trees would be filled with green again. Spring, apart from fall, was her favorite time of year. When Tor and Fenris blessed the world, and the sun and rain replenished what had been lost during winter.

Black audits twitched atop the fae’s head, her black lips were curved in a gentle smile and her icy hued eyes gleamed brightly. For all the coldness that was bared within her frozen eyes, the way she held herself contradicted it. For Lucivar, the pack’s nurse, was a kind-hearted Varg. She walked with grace and held herself in a posture that was very motherly.

Today she was seeking out a new member. All she had been informed was her name, and that she would be her apprentice. Luci was excited, she’d never had an apprentice, plus the help would be greatly appreciated, there were currently four cubs running about the pack, and Lucivar was finding it harder and harder to keep track of all of them.

Of course, teaching the youngling wasn’t all that was on Lucivar’s mind. No, since her return to the pack lands she had been thinking more and more about Chalos, the Dragga. She knew that she was in love with the brute, but how to tell him, or her friend Cairo for that matter, was a bit of a dilemma. Shaking her head to rid herself of these thoughts she soon spied the form of she-wolf that she’d yet to meet.

She stood a little taller now, to show her status, though she still carried all of her grace and friendly qualities. Her smile seemed to grow as she approached and nodded to the fae. “You are Vienna, correct?” She inquired in her smooth alto tones. “I am Lucivar, the Nurse of this pack. I look forward to passing on my knowledge to you.”

[larkaandmorgra]

Looking up at the dark midnight colored sky, were the bright yellow stars shone down and cast a little light upon the world, Vienna sighed. The brightness of today’s day had long pasted and still Vienna sat by her self. Night’s color had now captured the sky, turning the red-yellow heavens into a more bluish black heaven. She thought to her self as she looked at the heavens, I really hope Lucivar likes me... She was sure, given a little heart, a little chance, and a little time; she would make a great Nurse for Deor. All she could do was hope, but hope was not always right. Oh, how she wish it was. Wished that she could accomplish every thing that is wished for. Wished that if she wished some thing it too would magically come true. But wishes, like hope, may or may not come true. As Vienna’s mother had always said to her when she was a pup, ‘Wish for the best, hope for the better, and be the most preeminent wolf you can possibly be.’ So that was what she was going to do.

She sighed again; thinking about her family always had her sigh and prattle on about unimportant things in her mind. Most of the time she tried to avoid anything that could possibly make her remember her family for that reason exactly. But lately it had been quite hard to do so. “Mind over matter,” she whispered quietly, but curtly to her self. Instead, to keep her mind off of the horrid thought of her family, she thought of what lay ahead of her. She had to impress Lucivar and gain her respect so that she would teach her all about being a Nurse. Then she had to make more friends..., but that could wait until later, if she had time for later with all that training that Lucivar had to teach her.

“I am a bit sleepily,” she said mellifluously to her self, “I think I will take a little nap again.” She stroked her tongue over her paws much like a cat would and scratched behind her ears much like dog would. In turn she stretched each of her legs. Then she curled up into a tight little ball, tucking her paws underneath her thick fur. Last she wrapped her luxuriant tail around her nose. When she was sure that every thing was in order she yawned, she closed her eyes, and tried to go to sleep.

Half dozing, Vienna heard a voice. Opening her eyes she spotted who she thought was Lucivar. Standing up, she dipped her head to Lucivar. “Yes, I am Vienna,” she answered evidently to the question that Lucivar had asked, “Nice to meet you Lucivar. I am looking forward to being your apprentice. I hope I can help as much as possible.” She looked up at her mentor and smiled in her mind’s eye, for she had noticed her smoothness in her tone and the smile on her face. All of her worries quickly melted away. A smile seemed to crawl across Vienna’s face as well.

[okamiwolf]

Vienna was relaxed, or had relaxed, Lucivar could tell that she’s possibly been fretting moments before, of what she didn’t exactly know. “Well, Vienna, my dear… Being a nurse is a lot of hard work, and with pups here you’ll have paws on lessons, what I have to teach you cannot be gained simply through speech, but example as well.” Her smile grew and her voice shifted slightly, it was still gentle and kindly, but it had grown stern and to-the-point in her few moments of explanation.

Her thick plume of brown and cream swayed through the crisp evening air behind her, when it had exactly become night, she didn’t know, but at some point through her journey of Deor to Vienna the sun had suddenly seemed to set behind the mountains to the west.

“I have much to teach you my dear, but let it wait until the day comes and the Great Fenris can watch over us. For now, let us simply get to know one another. After all, if we don’t have friendship, there is nothing that we can do together in this pack.” She grinned and dipped her muzzle to the youngling, at least Vienna was younger than Lucivar and her four and a half years of life under her pelt.

{{I appologize for my lateness. I have had no muse for role-play, and even now I fight losing it. Also my trip is coming up soon! Yay for absences!