sunwalker

^.^ for @Cara!

She was eternally grateful that the tawny white female had taken in the scrap formally known as Ivev- an eclipse of her former self. Soon after their brief introductions, the thin white ghost sulked down to the lake's edge and found herself slumped along the frozen coastline. The ground was ever so cool, and no matter how long Ivev had laid there, it stole her body heat. It seemed that even the slightest activity tired the young wolf out, a fact she would try to hide well from her new pack until she recovered substantially. That would be hard; Ivev lifted her skull from the sunken, frozen dirt to stare at her body. The fight with Shadow seemed so far in the past, but the wounds echoed the chase every day in her mind. The cut on her tail and back limbs, the bite marks along her scruff and shoulder, and the most obvious- the gaping wound upon her lower right hindleg.

The curling mountains around Ouroboros' lake provided plenty of physical and emotional protection, with its peaks blocking plenty of wind and clouds, and standing like sentinels against the overworld. But Ivev feared the encroaching night, where the sun would dip behind the mountains hours before the day actually ended. The temperatures would plummet. She had always loved the cold, but the coming days would be a trial for the adult. Would she be able to stand it, or would winter drag Ivev back to the place where she once came from?