Beneath warm, cloudy skies, she lowered her head and lengthened her stride. Having followed the river out from the dark sequoia forests, she had traced them all the way to the valley then eventually parted ways to travel a way she had not gone in a long, long time. Today, she would trek even further than the Vale pack's area and go across the valley entirely, back to landscapes she had not touched in months.
Restlessness had crept deep into her being suddenly and no amount of mountainside meditation she had achieved so far had righted this wrong. In an effort to sort herself, she took to changing her scenery to scavenge and prowl elsewhere with the thinking that a small meal might ease her enough to help. This remained to be seen.
By late in the afternoon she had flushed out a pheasant and ate it, although not all that happily (birds were among her least favorite meals, but beggars could not be choosers). She had managed to doze briefly in a secluded thicket after, but once again, not happily. Dreams of strange, blossoming forests growing rapidly out of seemingly nothing had found her. Their roots reached hungrily, faster and faster still while their sheer energy choked her ragged breaths even before the wood could curl around tight her neck... Naturally, she awoke in bad spirits.
So progress from there on out was slow and nothing more than a frowning march down paths she was less than certain about. It had been too long since she had come this way.. and the memories she had of it were dressed in a different season, too. She proceeded cautiously, especially knowing that the Creek pack's territories were nearby. Amekaze knew little about that pack and its policies regarding loners within several miles of their marks, but at least the members of it she had met were curious creatures. She would not know what to expect with them..
Eventually she lifted her snout and paused. Now there was something more familiar: the very distinct scent of wetlands, where she had usually haunted before summer turned into autumn. Amekaze had been hoping to find them before anything else held her up. No matter that it had taken well into the hours of dusk.
She walked on tiredly, just barely reaching into the shadow of their trees as the skies began to hit full-dark. Her motivation to reacquaint herself with these vistas fully had waned suddenly in favor of finding somewhere better to rest.
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i want to bleed in the 「r a i n」