The day's journey was coming to an end. Well, not the day, but Asp's tolerance for it certainly was. Picking her way gingerly across the snow studded meadow, preferentially laying her sore paws in drifts to ease them, she kept her smoldering ember eyes fixed hard on the looming cottonwoods: her goal. Making her way south the past few days hadn't been kind to her; the rabbit that filled her belly yesterday morning was long forgotten, but the absense it left was not. Such is the life of a rogue.
As the cottonwoods, long the hazy landmark, closed in around her, Asp dropped her poll to scout out the tapestry of smells crossing the soil. Whether it be due to hunger or legitimate lack of population, she failed to detect any signs of intelligent life. Heaving a melodramatic sigh, she dropped her body underneath a cottonwood and propped her back up against its trunk. Sighing, she spread her toes to relieve her weary feet. Journeys measured in days are for hobbits, not wolves.
As the cottonwoods, long the hazy landmark, closed in around her, Asp dropped her poll to scout out the tapestry of smells crossing the soil. Whether it be due to hunger or legitimate lack of population, she failed to detect any signs of intelligent life. Heaving a melodramatic sigh, she dropped her body underneath a cottonwood and propped her back up against its trunk. Sighing, she spread her toes to relieve her weary feet. Journeys measured in days are for hobbits, not wolves.
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an unexpected journey - by Asp - March 23, 2018, 03:54 PM
RE: an unexpected journey - by Indra - March 23, 2018, 07:11 PM
RE: an unexpected journey - by Asp - March 24, 2018, 11:04 AM
RE: an unexpected journey - by Indra - March 25, 2018, 12:17 PM
RE: an unexpected journey - by Asp - March 29, 2018, 12:38 PM
RE: an unexpected journey - by Indra - March 31, 2018, 10:59 AM
RE: an unexpected journey - by Asp - April 12, 2018, 05:33 PM
RE: an unexpected journey - by Indra - April 14, 2018, 05:59 PM