Username: ShadyBro
Name: Mystic Gray
Gender: Male
Arctic Story: My paws felt numb yet my heart felt alive with the flame of anticipation. I could feel the chill in the air biteing at my hide as I ran, could see my heated breath twirl about behind me, but more than anything I could truly sense the power in the land compared to my own fragility. I was but a tiny creature trailing through this blaze of land below me, and yet I found such joy in my mundane travels. As my paws faltered at the edge of weakening ice which dropped off into the depths of the blue arctic sea, I skid to a halt seconds before plunging into the wash. I watched the spray of ice fly off into the water, crumbling the frozen froth that swayed back and fourth to the rhythm of a beating heart. Panting, I flopped down, my toes inches from the chilling waves. Despite all of my insecurity in this world, nothing was more beautiful to me than that which could kill you - the deep, dark, deadly sea. It surrounded me, enveloped me, and spoke to me in ways that no living thing could. And yet it seemed so alive! The gentle movements and sounds that rang out between the glacier peeks was all I knew, and it was a melody I craved to hear day in and day out. Without it, I feared I would never wake, cursed to tumble about in the darkness of an undecided fate. This was my home, my place in this huge terrifying world, and I loved it with everything I had in me.