September 15, 2018, 10:19 PM
(This post was last modified: September 15, 2018, 10:26 PM by Alessia.)
On her first day of freedom, she makes a mistake; she stays out too long. Typically she's able to find shelter before darkness falls, but as the sun sets, she finds herself among a vast grey emptiness. There's no place to hide — nowhere safe. And as the sun sets, she begins to panic.
Predictably, horribly, night brings danger with it. Darkness settles over the land, and she hears distant keening calls — then not so distant. Coyotes, emboldened by the cloak of night and seeking blood from the lone wolf they've caught alone. It's difficult to make sense of what happens next — bristling and snarling, fangs through fur and the taste and scent of blood, pain and confusion and pitch black all around. It's a horrified haze until suddenly it's over — until the latter of two falls writhing, dying, and the yearling collapses beside it, wounded but not sharing the coyotes' fate.
Exhausted but still conscious, she doesn't move — even as the sun starts to rise and flies start to gather around the dead coyotes, nagging at her by extension.
Predictably, horribly, night brings danger with it. Darkness settles over the land, and she hears distant keening calls — then not so distant. Coyotes, emboldened by the cloak of night and seeking blood from the lone wolf they've caught alone. It's difficult to make sense of what happens next — bristling and snarling, fangs through fur and the taste and scent of blood, pain and confusion and pitch black all around. It's a horrified haze until suddenly it's over — until the latter of two falls writhing, dying, and the yearling collapses beside it, wounded but not sharing the coyotes' fate.
Exhausted but still conscious, she doesn't move — even as the sun starts to rise and flies start to gather around the dead coyotes, nagging at her by extension.
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all the world you roam turns you into stone - by Alessia - September 15, 2018, 10:19 PM
RE: all the world you roam turns you into stone - by Aditya - September 15, 2018, 11:57 PM
RE: all the world you roam turns you into stone - by Alessia - September 16, 2018, 10:55 AM
RE: all the world you roam turns you into stone - by Aditya - September 16, 2018, 04:51 PM
RE: all the world you roam turns you into stone - by Alessia - September 16, 2018, 05:15 PM
RE: all the world you roam turns you into stone - by Aditya - September 17, 2018, 09:02 PM
RE: all the world you roam turns you into stone - by Alessia - September 18, 2018, 06:56 PM
RE: all the world you roam turns you into stone - by Aditya - September 18, 2018, 07:49 PM
RE: all the world you roam turns you into stone - by Alessia - September 19, 2018, 09:03 PM
RE: all the world you roam turns you into stone - by Aditya - September 19, 2018, 09:34 PM
RE: all the world you roam turns you into stone - by Alessia - September 19, 2018, 10:20 PM