Thunder Dome What is beauty?

 

Super sorry for the late reply. RL has been hitting me really hard recently. Should be back to normal now .

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She came up beside him to smell the ground and claimed to have picked up its scent. She was being very committed to her role he thought to himself. It was fun to think of this as a fantasy world. Not only was this a truly beautiful secret part of nature, but it allowed him to temporarily escape from his reality. Finding a purpose in his life at the moment wasn't proving as easy as he thought it should be. He had completed his first step of joining a pack and contributing, but it had all become very routine and uneventful. It gave him too much time to dwell on this thoughts.

He shook his head as he began to think again of his past, putting on a smile. "Right as always Lady Dragoneye."  he said stepping back into the fantasy. "I believe the trail leads this way."  he said continuing on their way. But then the scent of a none fantasy animal came to his nose. It smelled of deer and Howl thought to himself how a nice taste of deer would be rather satisfying right about now.  "Perhaps we could grab lunch during our exploration."  he explained looking at her to see what he thoughts would be.  

He continued on, now following the trail of the deer until he caught the sound of something. A whining and wailing noise. He followed the sound and came across a deer, but...

Rather than finding a deer standing within the forest of trees, it was laying down. Panting on its side gently moaning in pain. The color of red instantly caught Howl's eye when the full image came into view. This deer lay on its side disemboweled and in pain.

The sight made his stomach turn and he followed his initial instinct which was to run to the deer and clamp down on its neck. It was over in seconds, and the space around them seemed quiet.