When your dreams all fail
07-03-2013, 11:15 PM
The utter silence of the forest was deafening. The fea didn't know of anywhere else that was so naturally quiet. It was natural for a forest to have sounds of life around, the scittering of animals, crawling of bugs, and the like. Here it seemed like none of that existed. With the exception of the occasional screech of a bird overhead, it was as quiet as the dead. The fea was perfectly fine with this however. The more quiet it was the more she could hear. It sounded backwards even in her own mind, but it was true. The more silence there was, the more subtle, quiet noises she could catch. For example, her ear twitched as she caught the sound of some movement a little ways back from her. It was barely audible, but it was enough for the wolf that had trained herself to be aware of all of the sounds and movements around her. She wasn't sure what creature had made the sound, but she could tell it was moving somewhere near her. She had been expecting some kind of contact or attack of some sort when she had noticed the movement around her, but what actually came at her completely threw her off her guard. Out of nowhere, what only could be described as a screech pierced the air and threw her off balance. Her ears flattened back against her skull in an attempt to deaden the awful noise as she stumbled to the side. Scrambling, she regained her balance and whipped her head in the direction that the jolting screech came from and what she saw was almost as jolting as the scream itself. The scrawny wolf in front of her was like nothing she had ever encountered. Her eyes were wide with shock at both his entrance and his appearance. It took a lot to throw the white fea off her game, but this wolf had succeeded in doing just that. "What on earth was that for?" she questioned in her deceivingly sweet timbre as her heart slowly calmed back down from the scare he had given her. She felt like something wasn't right about this scrap of a wolf, but then again, she wasn't really quite right herself. "Speech." |