Blackfoot Forest The simorgh sleeps on velvet tongues

Hawkeye felt a chill wind its way up her spine; the downpour from the night before had ceased, but large droplets of water still dripped from the towering trees of Blackfoot forest. Her eyes worked almost as a sharpening filter as she peered upward to the canopy, watching individual balls of water fall and soak into the ground.

Looking around, she noticed that there was almost no movement. The air was just barely stagnant, and obviously the foxes were still hidden in their dens. She lifted her nose and smelled the air as a light breeze blew by, making her shiver once more. Hawkeye smiled as a hint of Pied showed up in the mixture of rain and greenery. The black wolf turned and trotted in the direction of her friend.


The inky black wolf realized that last night was the first one in weeks where she had not had a nightmare or woken up with her mind racing. Maybe she was back to "normal". Pied might listen with an open ear about her mad-mind, but Hawkeye wiped the thought away. What if she thought badly of Hawkeye after finding out her wicked visions? She shook her head and continued onward.
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As she approached from a far distance, Hawkeye stopped and the smile on her face shrunk slightly. A look of mourn was on Pied's face, and she was sure that she was somehow distracted into not noticing her. Looking in the direction of Pied's gaze, the curious wolf's vision became hazy. She shut her eyes tightly, and when she opened them again, the red filter had come back. Annoyingly, she narrowed her brow at the wolf who seemed to have appeared from nowhere.

A rattle in the bush next to Hawkeye distracted her for a moment, making her whip her head around. He relaxed her body a bit when a rabbit bounced from its depths, and quickly returned her attention to the far off wolf she was just scrutinizing; but the red was gone, and so was he.

Hawkeye peered around for half a moment, and then trotted toward Pied. When she was near, she smiled once more before asking: "Hey, Pied, who was the wolf you were just talking to?"

set by sophie

omg I wrote a lot.