Twisted Slough night's decor

The glorious advantage of being a bigger wolf, and of not caring if someone were to stumble upon you because of a well placed prowess and confidence in one's abilities, was that Tetsubo could go barrelling through the forest without a single care. Even if he had the ability to feel emotion, he'd have been totally without remorse. He moved without grace, as always, but seemed to make a point of breaking down anything in his path. A few times he'd encounter fallen trees or tangles that were insurmountable, but he would simply stop and climb his way over, or snap at the brambles and cut his way through; this meant he'd be caught with his torso stuck high up across a log, or his rear end would be exposed while the rest of his sterling body was rooted awkwardly among the shards of stone and clusters of fresh growth, but it didn't matter. He was immodest. His desire to go from point A to point B went unhindered by the obstacles, as he would face them and overcome them.

At the same time, his voyage through the slough was slow-going, and by the time he'd found a gap in the trees within which to rest, he was panting hard and slightly delerious from hunger. The beast fell partway down a steep incline with only a small stand of saplings to brace him, and as they snapped beneath his weight, he came to a rest and took a moment to suck in a much needed breath of air. The stench of the place was quite intense, and slightly sulfuric. The darkness helped little at this point — he still felt that strange clarity and togetherness like never before, and the anxiety that plagued him over this strange new feeling was beginning to abate, as he was distracted by his body's reaction to so much work — but there, out of the corner of his vision, he thought he saw a shadow twitch and move.

He breathed another series of breaths, in and out, and thought fleetingly that this could be another embodiment of the nether — so Tetsubo stood at attention, and bellowed with a firm call, in to the void of his surroundings.