♦Skyrise♦ 1x1 with ColorpawxKurious

[houndjaw]

Lona ducked inside, keeping her head low as the darkness that greeted her sunk into her pores. "Raseem? Moram? It's Lona, from the Third Panel." Keeping her voice respectful, her ugly yellow-brown eyes adjusted to the darkness. She could see something moving from within the corners of the stone den.
"You bring friends with you, Lona of the Third Panel. Care to tell us who they are?" Came a gravel-filled voice, full of age and wisdom. Again, something shifted inside the den, and the form of a wolf appeared. Out from the dark shadows and into the dim, stale light, stepped a white she-wolf, her fur dingy with season upon season of uncare. Her paws were huge, much too big for a regular wolf, and her brown nose twitched as she took in the band of wolves. But what was most frightening about her, was her unnatural white eyes. They looked directly at the four guests, but betrayed nothing.

Snow yelped in surprise at the frightening appearance of this new wolf, squeezing her eyes shut to cancel out the sight of her. Her whole body trembled as she felt power radiating off this she-wolf, but she still didn't open her eyes.

Mercury looked sharply at the fortune-teller, then dropped his gaze when a fear dropped over his body. What's wrong with her eyes? And what's the Third Panel? he thought fearfully.

[Colorpaw<3]

Moram looked up at Lona and blinked her striking blue eyes before fixing her gaze on the prophecy wolves standing in front of them. Her fur looked a lot like Illusion's, you could tell that right away. Another Himayalan wolf? "Is something bothering you?" she asked the young wolves, more directed at Thunder because he didn't look scared at all.

"Nope." Thunder answered and blinked his eyes, a smile even tugging at his mouth.

[houndjaw]

Lona didn't drop her gaze as she spoke to the two leaders. "These wolves I bring with me are our Prophicised Ones."
"And how do you know?" Raseem challenged, flicking her ears.
"I could tell from the aura they give off of them. Can you not feel it, Raseem? There is power there, farmore power than you and Moram put together." Lona glanced over at the three wolves behind her.
Raseem looked over the three young juviniles, indeed feeling a force a work between the three. But there was a deep jut in that line, only visible to great magicians like she and Moram. A flaw. Something is missing... an echo growled in her mind, bringing thought to her obvious notes. She turned her white gaze to one of the three, a large gray male with gray eyes. He seemed fearless of them, which was very rare in their case. Everyone was feared by them--she and her friend, Moram...

Mercury looked at Thunder, astonished at his bravery. But he still didn't look at Raseem in the eye, just looked over who he guessed was Moram. Her pretty blue eyes shone with gentleness, and her stance showed she was not a threat at all. But her fur...that was what caught Mercury's attention. It was the same shade of Illusion's...A pang of sadness struck his heart, but he kept it to himself and went on studying Moram.

[Colorpaw<3]

Moram smiled at Thunder and dipped her head, glancing over at Mercury before looking back at Lona. "I feel it." she spoke up, turning her bright blue eyes back to wolves, but then she blinked in confusion. "Is there one more, Lona? This isn't entirely right..." she said softly and looked back at the black wolf.

"Well, we did have an adopted sister... she looked a lot like you-- Moram, is it?" Thunder spoke up, feeling like it was the right time to interfere.

(( Sorry I'm not writing that much. ))

[houndjaw]

Lona nodded slowly. "I believe they did have a sister when I first met them in the forest. She did look closely to you Moram, but I did not feel a connection that had anything to do with what we are searching for..." The wolf paused. "But...I felt an aura there." She cast her troubled gaze downward, thinking, then glanced at Raseem.
Raseem looked at Lona closely but said nothing. She had caught something in her eyes, and it spoke to her like a million words. "She did not hold the grace of magic?"
Lona shook her head. "No..." she answered reluctantly. "She did not."
Raseem glanced at the children, then spoke to them in her gravely voice, "Go and sit outside. We have lots to speak of, but it mustn't be heard by all ears. And don't listen to anything the fortune-tellers tell you. They have as much sense as fruit bats." The leader then watched the white she-wolf pad tentaively out who, despite the old air, shone like a morning dawn. The larger gray wolf with blue eyes followed his sister, casting an untrustworthy glance over to her. Raseem looked over at the last gray wolf, waiting patiently for him to leave.

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[Colorpaw<3]

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Moram blinked her eyes, hearing that the wolf looked like her. "Do you possibly think---" she was cut off when Lona told the prophecy wolves to leave. "Yeah, that will probably be best." she agreed, her voice softer that time.

"What?" Thunder asked and took a step closer to the wolves. "Awwwwwww..." he said and wagged his tail back and forth. "Can I stay?" he asked.

[houndjaw]

After a moment, Lona answered softly, "No, Thunder." Her steely yellow eyes watched him in the damp air, slicing through the darkness that left the den in an everlasting blackness.
Raseem looked over at Moram as she began to speak, but turned her head as the male wolf opened her jaws. She blinked her white eyes slowly and watched with wisdom. "Listen to your guide, young one." the fortune-teller's snippy voice ordered.

[Colorpaw<3]

Thunder sighed and nodded his head, already having expected that answer. "Well, thanks anyways. It was nice meeting you." he said and turned around before running to catch up with his siblings.

[houndjaw]

Lona watched as Thunder padded out, then turned to her leaders.
"What do you think this second sister has, Lona?" Raseem asked, blinking her white eyes.
Lona looked down, shaking her head. "I haven't felt an aura this strange in all of my training. It wasn't magic, but something powerful, I am sure of that. This was a new kind of magic."
Raseem sat quiet, thinking to herself. She looked over at Moram questioningly.

Mercury stood awkwardly out of the entrance to the den, his eyes wide. Around Snow and him, stood a few fortune-tellers goggling at them with grinning, curious faces. He stood close to Snow, flicking his ears uncomfortably.

Snow reverted her gaze downward, toward her paws, where she couldn't see any of the old she-wolves' gazes.
"You are powerful, children of the outside world," said one fortune-teller who seemed to be standing a few inches back than the others. "Very powerful. The marks on your face bear both good and bad fortune." Then she chuckled, her yellowed teeth showing.

[Colorpaw<3]

"I think you should bring the second sister back." Moram said, looking up at both of them. "She sounds more important than we thought." She wagged her tail back and forth before lying her head down on her paws.

"Can I eat one of them?" Thunder growled, because I have awful writer's block.