Arrow Lake Travel Vlog Day 43: Update- This Sucks

Traveling. How much she had loved it while on her own territory, flitting here and there, sticking her nose into crevices and holes. Now, it was not as much fun. Just a monotonous flow of uninteresting landscapes, sun rises and sets, and aching cracked paw pads.

Grackle continued along her path, if you could even call it that. Really, she was just moving, trudging along without purpose. Her only motivation, get as far away as possible from her old pack's territory. She had left the night of her banishment and hadn't looked back, traveling in a straight line into the sun. Perhaps if she went far enough she would find the edge of the world. Sit at the edge of the world with her paws dangling over the side, and everything else behind her. What would the wolves be like at the edge of the world? Not so much different from herself, she would suppose. Idle thoughts such as these danced along in the tall wolf's head as she padded along, trying to think of anything other than her mother's scream of pain as the alpha, her alpha, had announced his judgment. How could he have thrown her out when she had given everything she had? Was her best not good enough? She would show them. Make them beg her return, and grovel at her paws. For now, at least, she would focus on one thing at a time. An empire wasn't built in a day after all.

The dark-coated wolf paused, letting out a cough that shook her whole body. The dust and pollen in the air tickled her dry, aching throat. How long had it last been since she had anything to drink? Far too long. Fortunately for her, a lake was coming into view. She raised her nose to the air, taking deep searching breaths. It seemed clear enough. The last thing she needed was some wolf coming to rip off her pelt for taking a drink in their lake.

Taking only a few steps at a time, nose working a million miles an hour, Grackle eventually made her way to the shore. She plunged her forepaws into the cool crystal surface, lowering her head to take large greedy gulps of the stuff. Sweet relief! It was only when without that one would realize how precious something really was. Licking the droplets from her maw, the wolf looked around again. The coast was still clear, so here she would stay and rest, for the moment at least.