November 16, 2015, 07:59 PM
Quick intro post / RO thread to get me in to Tavi territory.
The smell of fish was very faint in this place, but pungent enough to draw her forward. It was strange - there was no water here, only the chilly mud, soon to be covered in ice with the onset of winter. How could there be fish here, of all places? In the middle of nowhere? Tavi meandered along, picking a path through the mud and foreign soil, her head low so that she could trace the scents upon the ground. One exceptionally pungent whiff of fish made her stop, reeling her head back with a snort, almost like a horse being reigned in. She gagged softly and began to dig.
But it wasn't a cache she had found -- under a nice layer of chunky, freezing cold mud and some kind of scum, she found some fish bones. Lots of fish bones, the more she looked at it. Some had bloated bellies and others were only small fry, none of which were edible. "Well fuck you too, fishes! Fish! F-- whatever." She lurched over the pothole she had dug, scratching at the earth with her hind paws to cover the garbage that she had unearthed, and began to move on.
There was a nice band of trees on the horizon - maybe an hour or two away - and she set her sights upon that. Hopefully there was a spring or something among those trees where she could have a nice bath; right now, Tavi was a mess of mud and putrified fish guts. How tasty.