As eerie as it was, she did not see the need to fear this time and place. The woods were dark, deep and shaded in a heavy fog while a cacophony of shrieks rang out and yet, she only felt annoyance that the foxes were squawking up such an otherwise welcome place.
So she decided to move on, after tsking towards where the wolf hid and launched her nimble body into motion. Through the fog she streaked, weaving a rapid path around the trees and deeper into the heart of it all. Her ears flicked forward and her nostrils flared. Wolf scents, new ones to her, were prevalent. Ahead she saw the figure of one appear fleetingly through the fog only to vanish again. Amekaze kept moving forward.
Her path drew her closer to the other. She could smell her better now -- female, obviously, but Amekaze had not caught a better sight of her yet. Her senses were being pulled in so many directions, so near to overwhelming as the mystery of these woods pulled in her further and further. She welcomed it.
Then again, she suddenly smelled another. A stationary presence similar to the one before. She debated approaching it at all, but already she was so very close so the Rikudōu slowed up. Why so many hid at a time like this seemed bizarre to her -- they were wild wolves! Her lips pulling tight into a scowl while she sniffed him out, hidden amongst the foliage and appearing much like a shadow himself. If not for her nose, she felt she never would have found him here tonight. Rise, koinu, and run with the night,
she grated with only a momentary pause to see if he would comply. If not, it was his loss. She felt generous for stopping for him at all and wondered if he could recognize this.
Amekaze then spun on her heels and set off with a trot, pursuing the female scent first and foremost while the forest sang its hallowed tune.
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