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- The time and place does not matter, at least not much. It's the thoughts, the argument, the morals that have caused this and those will always be timeless. When someone breaks from the norm, potentially endangering much more than themselves, does anyone really have the right to stop them... no matter what the means?
The question has posed itself to an almost unlikely group - the dogs of Lakemere. In the shadows of a well established agricultural community, the inhabitants' canine companions have made a hidden society for themselves. While they still work and live along side their masters, they have melded into a tight knit community - a pack. Perhaps more gentle than their wild cousins, but they still share the same loyalty and trust that any pack might have. Or at least they thought they had...
In any society, animal or human, there are always things that seem taboo. Unspoken but forbidden to all it's members. It's quite obvious in this situation; The majority of the dogs are there to work, herding, guarding, and other such things, most certainly pertaining to the livestock their human counterparts make a living with. To interfere with this, or even worse to harm it, would certainly be an unspeakable crime. Why would anyone every want to throw into ruins everything the Lakemere pack has become?
But some, whether by accident or quite on purpose, have done it. Maybe it was a sheep, maybe a duo took down one of the more sickly cows in a herd, but regardless they have gotten a taste for blood. It's far too late for second thoughts now. They've been deemed a killer, if they were caught, the town's people ready to act with swift justice. Unfortunately - or maybe fortunately? - those 'killers' escaped. They fled into the surrounding hills and forests, leaving turmoil in their wake.
The humans are beginning to doubt even their most faithful of companions, the doubt slowly worming it's way into everyone's hearts. The dogs themselves have become divided, all terrified by what has happened and what might still happen. Some want to deal with these traitors themselves, bring them down before anymore damage can be done to their once happy lives. Yet others believe it isn't fair to judge for themselves, that killer out in the woods might just be their brother or sister, or a lover perhaps, and they would never wish such a fate on them. Some might just be undecided, too confused by everything to dare make a choice.
What will become of the traitors? How far will all of this go? Will their old ways of trust and friendship ever come back?
Some Important Stuff; Seeing as the Lakemere dogs do organize themselves, they obviously have leaders. 'The Council' is a group of elected dogs, usually older and/or have something useful to offer to the community as a whole. Up until now their system of 'government' has worked out relatively well, no one has seen much reason to oppose and certainly would not have thought about it until now.
Aside from this, there are no ranks. Everyone is just expected to contribute in any way that they can. Their primary objective has always been to serve their masters the best they can as well as protect them. Their meetings as a group are usually held late at night and sporadically. Whenever something is going on, the word will be passed around town that a meeting is being held.
The humans are oblivious to all this, of course. There is no way they would ever or could ever know how much their canine companions really care for their masters or the town they live in.
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It should keep things simple...hopefully. Also, I would like to phase out Gabriel the Boxadore; I feel like I can only RP one character at a time successfully, so I would like to stick with Zephyr, the Weimeraner/Doberman mix. ))
. so, my very best friend in rl is letting me use her BRAND NEW account, witch is awsomeness. anyways, i post in black, she posts in green, and Reverie,(her rather dumb wolf fursona) 