Sorine woke, feeling groggy and confused. The last thing she remembered was water washing over her head. Now her pelt was heavy and soaked with salty ocean water, her right side caked with sand. She lifted her head slowly, bleary eyed as she blinked at her new surroundings. Despite the wetness of her pelt her mouth was dry from the heat of summer and the salt and sand that had coated her tongue.

This place was new to her, and she wasn’t entirely sure how she had gotten here. Somehow she’d been washed ashore here. Alone and with no clear way back to where she came from, at least from where she stood. Not that there was much for her to return to now, anyways. The former princess had lost her home, and lost her faith in everything she had been raised to believe. Perhaps a new start away from it all was exactly what she needed.

"Speech" || Thoughts

violette amanta

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The young viper surprisingly couldn’t remember much of last week. It was troubling in a way, she was no healer but it probably wasn’t good for her head if she couldn’t recall such recent events. Yesterday she could remember in bits of pieces that she had woken upon the shore. Sore and battered up, most likely from the waves of the sea. She was hungry and thirsty, as well as exhausted. However she ended up crawling up the sand at least to get away from the water and possible rising current.

She ended up sleeping even more, through the night, like a rock. She awoke when the sun rose, bright and early. She was still weak however and was unsure of what to do next. Then something caught her eye, her ear twitching slightly and she slowly rose on shaky limbs. She stalked forth, watching a mass wash to shore. To her amazement, as she got closer, it was definitely a creature covered in fur… Another wolf! She quickly stalked forth, the other wolf covered in the fishy seawater and sand. As she examined closer she looked at a surprisingly familiar sight. She was completely baffled though, Is this Sorine? Sister?? What curious phenomenon could be causing this to happen? Is our family cursed?! she thought to herself.

She backed up to give her sister space once she saw her begin to rouse and move. “Sorine…” she said in a soft but relieved tone.

"speech" - thought

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The world seemed hazy around her, too bright and blurry for her to make any sense of it. It was the sound of a voice that helped her slowly bring things into focus, but it confused her more at the same time. She turned her head until her gaze landed on another purple shape, one that seemed familiar but didn’t make sense at the same time.  "Vio?" She squinted, doubting the sight before her. They were both here? "What happened?" She didn’t even remember being with her sister before, but she was glad to see her.

She stood then, moving closer to the other Amanta girl. They had been on the same page as children, and perhaps there had been some competition to be better than one another, but at the end of the day they were sisters. Sorine would have always had her back, and never thought for a second that Violette wouldn’t have hers as well. "Where the hell are we?"

"Speech" || Thoughts

violette amanta

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Her sister seemed confused at first, calling for her. She then quickly inquired about what happened. “I don’t know,” she replied. Straight and to the point. Her sister then got up to her paws, moving closer towards Violette. “I’m not sure, all that I know is that we are far from home…” she replied.

It was a bit frightening if she was completely honest. But thankfully, they had each other. “I got here yesterday, that is all that I remember,” she explained to her sister. “This isn’t ideal but… If we ever want to get back home or find our family, we need to find food and get ourselves up to par,” she added. She truly had no clue what could have caused all this. Whatever happened probably wasn’t good though.

"speech" - thought

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