Darkened Sky

[Wildmagic_warrior]

Still looking up at the sky, Fern said "He was serious, but kind, and loyal to the end. Promised me he'd always watch my back." Looking at Kendrick, she points the stick she had used to poke the fire at his head. "He had dark hair like yours, too, but it was black instead of brown."

[Wolfsabre]

Kendrick grins and rubs the spot he pokes and brushes the hair out of his eyes. "Hey, I'm not too serious. I can joke"
"Yeah right" Drazarriz grunts, flying out of the darkness and landing on Kendrick's shoulder. He looks at Fern, then back at Kendrick and he grins and flaps his wings and flies out of sight.
Kendrick rolls his eyes at his familiar then back at Fern with a grin. "Hey, where's your familiar?"

[solo]

Shadow smiled up at Drazarriz, panting "I'm 'fraid not. But at least we are almost there." With the help of the wind at his back, he pulled the beast down the hill and into their little camp by the stream. Shadow tied the end of the rope to a strong looking oak and turned. There was a fire going, Liddia was asleep, Kendrick and Fern where talking to each other. Wait a minute... where's Lakota? he looking around, worry gleaming in his blue eyes. When was the last time I saw her? Where I got the minitor from? Did something get her when I wasn't looking?!

[Wildmagic_warrior]

"What? Oh, my good-for-nothing soul is taking a nap on my friend's head." She grins jerks a thumb over her shoulder at Rose, the pine marten, who was curled up, fast asleep, between Willow's horns. Rose grumbles, without opening her eyes, "I heard that, you know. And without me you'd be a pale shell without a will to live." Fern rolls her eyes, and replies "And without me, you'd be a cloud of dust."

[Wolfsabre]

Kendrick chuckles. He and his familiar were the same way. Bickering, but at the same time, were closer than anything possible. He laid down on the dirt, his arms under his head. The sky shone above, with its million stars. The moon was looming in the sky, casting a silver glare on them. His eyes burned silver and he smiled a little.

[Wildmagic_warrior]

Using her stick to spread out the embers so the fire would die down, Fern then leaned back and looked up at the sky as well. Remembering a song that she had once sung at the Festival of the Moon, she hummed a piece of the tune and then began to sing.

"So cold and distant, far away,
I'll make you mine somehow, one day.
I may be here, far from your light,
only to watch you through the night.
Hear the wolf-song all around,
I never fear, I stand my ground."

There was more, but she couldn't remember it. The whole ballad was twenty-seven pages long, so of course, she had not learned the whole thing. Each elf in her village had a chance to sing a small section, so they could all honor the first full moon of the year. The main point of the ballad was, simply, that the earth and the moon had once been lovers, but the sun had courted the moon and turned her attentions from the earth. The earth was so angry that he banished the moon to the skies, but in doing so he made her not only closer to the sun, but also farther from him. To say the least, he regretted it. The other lines had something in them about rage, volcanoes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters of the sort.

[solo]

Shadow felt panic burn inside of him. Who knows what kind of monster could have killed her? I should have paid more attention! Shadow ran over to Kendrick and Fern, "Have you guys seen Lakota?!"

[Wildmagic_warrior]

Fern stopped thinking about the song and turned to the boy, Shade, no, Sha... Shadow, that was it. "No, Shadow, I'm afraid I haven't seen her. Why?"

[solo]

"She- well, last time I saw her is when I started to pull to minitor back, now she's gone. I don't know where she went. And she didn't tell me she was going anywhere. Lakota always tells me when she's going to go off by herself." Shadow saw the slightly confused expression on her face that had lasted a heartbeat when she had looked at him and wondered why. He flicked his black hair out of his eyes, "Did she come by here? Is she with Zarenn?"

[Nyne]

(recap?)