The Heartwood Angel With A Shotgun

@Ashton


The mocha and caramel colored woman walked through the domain with her head weaving from side to side. Due to her being blind on her left eye, she had not been able to see very clearly, sometimes causing her to smack her face in front of a tree, rock, or something else hard. Sometimes, she was relieved she didn't lose so many brain cells due to her eye, but, she was relieved she could see from her right eye that was the color of an emerald, while her right eye was supposed to be crimson, but, due to the blindness that inhabited the orb, it was more of a dark, cloudy pink. Her front and back paws consisting of the caramel color, while a caramel colored diamond shape is upon her forehead. The tip of her tail is black, while caramel is slightly mixed in.

She missed her family, but she had been wandering the land ever since she was six months of age, learning how to hunt and live off the land by herself ever since her mother and father had abandoned her. Her ears perked upward when she sniffed around, there seemed to be food close by as her stomach growled. She knew that it was a hare, something easy she could catch as she followed the scent.

The golden boy had finished his daily goal of medicine cache.
But that was only...
for today.
You can never run out of good green stuff.
It just doesn't happen. It shouldn't.
So a newly relaxed teen kept his pace light, keeping his own emeralds focused on the fall canopy above him.
A scuttling sound neared him, and before he knew it, a hareflew past him, the furry little bundle of bunny not even acknowledging he had darted past a creature who had no trouble devouring him.
Damn rabbit was lucky he wasnt fast enough to react.
But Ash was fast enough to catch up, wasnt he? Why yes, yes he was.
And as the teen swiveled, he could have been mistaken for lightning, he zipped so fast after the brown fluff.
And after a few more darts and turns, slim jaws snatched the thing up, and shook it's beating heart to a stop.

Ash looked around after hearing another set of paw pads, and with gold riveted ears, he pinpointed the sound.
Forward. And before he could even travel there, a smaller lupine was before him, thivk and lavishing coat draped with the very hues that were consistent with the freshly autumned trees, the warm colored trunks, their shades of hearty spruce and vivid oak. The colors danced in this girls coat, alone.
And a single orb stared at him. One that could have been mistaken as one of his. The other gem was a malty salmon pink, succumbed to the temporary fate of No Sight.

Flustered, Ashton dropped the hare.

"Eh.. if it's what you were after, go ahead, I wasn't hungry anyways,..I was just fillin' up the pack chache, it's totally fine,... eh..."

Dude, chill the hell out. Chill. Axify.
Yourself.
Bruh.

The mocha and caramel woman had chased the hare, but someone had already been fast enough to catch the prize that she recently had her eye focused on. He seemed to be startled by her presence as the brute was stuttering when he was speaking to her, and the dame couldn't help herself but give a friendly chuckle. He seemed to be the same age as her, as her caramel paws pressed against the dry grass while it crunched underneath the pressure of her paws. Her emerald and blind optic focused in on his emerald orbs as she sat in front of him, wrapping her tail around her bodice while sitting upon her haunches.

"Don't worry about it," Arina spoke, her tone smooth and gentle, showing no anger or force, "It is only a hare, I can catch another one or I can go fishing for I know there is a lake closeby."

God, she was gorgeous. Like, the gentle and innocent and soft and pillowy and 'hold ya when ya scared' kinda gorgeous.

"Ahhaha, take it, it's chill. Not a prob. I got food back at my shack. Speakin' of my, I, am Ashton. A fellow dude of RedHawk Caldera. The closest pack near us currently. "

A humorous glint shied in his vivid optics, and he inclined a ilted head towards the babe.

"Ya know, I'm sure you can eat a load more than just this smidge of a hare. If need be, I can find a few things here and there for ya."

The offer hung around them, and seemingly plain and simple perhaps to her, it smoldered him.
Already trying to dine out with a gal? Cheers, Ash, you made the Desperate Team. Trying to shag up a girl, and you dont even know her name.

Arina smiled and shook her head slightly. She stood up and walked around him, as if trying to tease the brute. His emerald optics focused upon her heterochromatic ones. He was definitely handsome himself and looked to him. Ashton. That was actually a pleasant name that matched the brute perfectly. The sound of black birds reverberated across her lobes as she knew that trouble always came when black birds called out their obnoxious song.

"There's trouble, we should move." She could hear the sound of snarling but she continued to walk through the forest, making sure if Ashton was following suit. Her one bad eye kept on causing her to sometimes whack into a tree, causing her to become embarrassed. "Also, my name is Arina."

Whayyy what? Trouble? Now?? Couldn't he just charm a girl, in peace?

Following the russet, he kept close, the impending feeling of danger nearby prickling his ruff, and sending the rest of him on edge of paranoia.
And through the entire, he chastised the world for busting in on him tryin' ta not make a fool of himself in front of the beau.

Another whack to her face caused him to dash ahead of her.

"Ok, ok, this is what we're gonna do. I'm gonna shuffle us on over to my pack lands, and see exactly what you can offer RedHawk. If my muchacho darko Peregrine takes a liking to ya, he'll let you in, and im sure he can get the rest of the Caldera ta shoot us a bit of protection. Deal?"

His first attempt at recruiting. And he was with the hopeful recruitette, running for their lives through woods that led straight to the RHC, and from what, they didnt even know.
But it sounded badass, and though curiousity killed the hippie, saving the sweet thing behind him was a tad more important.

Arina chuckled and smiled, nodding her head. She had not seen a pack in almost two years. "Alright, I think that would seem like a plan." Her one blind eye shimmered slightly on the darkness as she couldn't help but give him a friendly and thankful nudge to his shoulder as she let him lead the way to the pack grounds.

"Not a problem, Arina. Rad name, by the way. It fits you snug. "

A compliment, one that had figured to slide off of his tongue without knowing.
Sneaky little Ash.
Hearing no other intimidating sounds behind the two, Ashton slowed his lope to a slower gait.
He was still getting over the light little high he had gotten from her shoulder bump.

"So, gonna wonder, why is a babe like you, out in the Wilds wanderin' around all by her lonesome? "

Add nonchalant as the teen sounded, he was genuinely concerned for her safety.

Arina would soon sigh and stood upon her paws, soon turned her head and looked at his eyes. She had never really told anyone about how she had come to be alone, she was going to be joining a pack so why not tell Ashton since he did ask her if she would like to join.

"Well, I have been alone ever since I was six months old. I had to learn how to live off the elements after my parents had abandoned me and i was forced to learn everything alone. Now that I am too years old, I guess I will have to learn more about pack life a little," she said, giving a small grin.

"Good thing you ran into me then. I'm not as looney as I should be. And as for pack life, it's as good as you can get,, really. Being alone...it hurts. It always helps to be surrounded with other dudes and dudettes that'll have your back."

A reflection of her grin made its way to his maw, and he gave her a bashful appearance.
Sheesh, what was he goin through?

"I was in a pack for quite some time, until I left em' and made my home in the Caldera. "

She smiled, he seemed to be a very kind wolf, and it is very rare seeing any kind wolves anymore in this world. Her mixed colored optics focused upon his emerald optics, listening as she looked around, her lobes swiveling for any sounds that could occur through her lobes. Finding nothing, she looked over to Ashton.

"Your pack seems to be very kind. My old home was like that myself, but, I was proven to be blind by our healers, and so my parents had no choice but to abandon me so that they did not get in trouble for having a disabled wolf pup in the pack. I may have one eye that is able to be used, but, it makes me stronger than weaker."

◆Last post from me, Ez. Pack IC joining thread in the creation, I'll tag you and Kat along with @Fox cuz she needs the news just as much as Per Per. See ya there. W_^V and good thread! ◆


"I admire you for ya strength, Ari. That's a rare bit too come across in comrades, nowadays. "

After giving her a stare that lasted a bit longer, quite a respectable thick of seconds actually, passed by until Ash turned his foresty gaze to the packlands that loomed before the two.
They made it.
And now it was time to shoot the big guns.

"Alright, sweets, we're here. And now, let's do this thing. "