Username: SilhouetteStation
Kalon Name: Keila
What are they hunting?:
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Pack.
Pack.
I stopped, raising my nose and drawing in the scents of the damp forest. Beside me, she did the same. Her long tongue lolled from the side of her mouth, sharp teeth glinting in the early morning sun. She kneaded the ground with large paws, too big for her young body. She was yet to grow into them.
I jerked my head forward, and together we began running again.
We'd been running for days, me and my pack-sister. The flash flood had taken us away from our pack. Each day we searched, and each night we howled, but we were yet to find them. We'd found our old camp, destroyed by the storm, and had only faint tracks to follow them by.
Pack.
Pack.
I could hear her thoughts as clearly as if they were mine. I'd always been able to hear them; that's why I ran away to the forest as a child. I couldn't remember my old life, only the relief at finding the source of the voices. Seeing their eyes, seeing my soul reflected; the pack I had been destined to find.
And now we had to find them again.
Our paws skimmed across the ground. We scented the air, pricked our ears, kept our keen eyes open to the forest around us. We used the skills they had taught us to hunt, except now we were hunting them. Our family was out there somewhere, and we would find them.
Pack.
Pack.
We ran through the dirt, the grass, the streams. Leaped over fallen branches and skirted around trees. Sunlight filtered through the leafy canopies above. In the shade, cold shadows remained. Water still dripped from ferns and bushes.
Then, there, in the mud; the trace of a dried paw print. Smudged, but undeniably wolf.
We stopped. Listened. She raised her head, jaws parted slightly. Suddenly she let out a bark, and bounded forward. I followed on her heels, but moments later we crashed through the undergrowth and skidded to a halt. A gorge stood in our way, and on the other side, forest continued.
She threw her head back in a howl, and I joined her. Our songs, echoing into the empty space, being carried by the wind.
Pack.
Pack.
And then, across the gorge, a faint howl came back to us. First by one voice, and then picked up by many.
Pack.
Home.