by -goldleaf- » Sun Sep 29, 2013 1:22 pm
The baron let a smokey laugh slip from his lips, fern gaze roaming left and right across the blank expanse of snow before him. His figure was still as could be, looking for all the world like a sculpture if not for his tousled fur that swirled and tangled in the slight breaths of wind. The light played off his autumn fur with winks and shimmers, catching in the warm honeyed highlights and getting swirled into darkness in the rich undertones of mocha and mahogany. For several minutes this sculpted baron held his pose, lean legs stock-straight but body conveying that his muscles were all coiled like springs; clearly held for a purpose, with only his finely tipped ears twitching and carefully swiveling this way and that. With a sudden flick of a notched ear, Roan reared back onto his hind legs and sprang upward; in the air he twisted his body down tucking his forepaws to his defined chest and baring his teeth with a quick intake of breath. In seconds he was plunging face first into the snow, feeling the tip of his nose barreling through the cold for the tiny bit of warmth hidden in the secret snow tunnels bellow; he was mouse hunting.
With a hiccup to her stride, Kirsten skipped over a little dip in the snow, unsure of what the change in level could be hiding beneath the surface. Her ears swiveled back as a low gust of wind nipped at her ankles, picking up her slender paws in faster succession to melt her stride into a faster run. As she ran through the ghosts of winter trees the cold caressing sun caught in her cowfeather fur and spun in back with shimmers of the ice caught there; looking for all the world like a piece of the star-laden sky cut free and still falling. Her almond shaped eyes slipped first to the left, then abruptly to the right as she caught movement from the hill opposite hers. Bits of unpacked snow fluffed up as she slowed to an uneasy stop, crouching down slightly as she paced forward and half-hid behind a thin tree. She let her tail flick to and fro, narrowing her emerald eyes and breathing slow and deep as she scanned for the source of movement. With a soft note of a sigh she shook out a forepaw, long past tired of how the cold made her toes ache, rather, she had grown almost used to the sensation. Perhaps what she had seen had just been a bush in the wind, though she had a small hope that it had been some kind of prey animal for the hunters to pick up. She knew how much they needed it.
((I've never been very god at starting posts, but anyone can come find them; Roan can be anywhere since he's a loner, but Kirsten is somewhere in Poisonpack's territory))