earthwater

he purred in pleasure to hear her description of how she killed their mutual enemy, their shared prey. surely he had been blessed to find her; surely their paths had been fated to cross. he gave her a cold smile, the extent of his goodwill toward most living creatures. "what did the wolves do unto thee, that thou hatest them so much?" for shardul, he could not recall the event in his childhood which had led him to such bitter loathing of the verminous creatures, but then again, he recalled very little of his own mother, his own littermates.