Behind that picket fence
08-18-2018, 08:34 PM
A whole season had come and was nearly on its way out since her mother gave birth. She had stayed close to the pack lands, rarely leaving their borders since then. It had been a weird balance of staying close to her mother and her new siblings while also avoiding Elias. It had gotten harder and harder to do until she finally started to drift out of the pack from time to time. It wasn't necessarily that she had anything against him. Actually, she liked him more now that he was spending more time with Zuriel and she saw him training her younger siblings. She wasn't sure she could call him "affectionate" per say, but considering she didn't grow up with a father of any kind it was nice to know he was doing that for her siblings. No, what she was avoiding was the trials he had instructed her and the other purgatorians to do. Hunting was something that she could do fairly well and she was sure that she was at least smart enough to figure out the traps he had mentioned... But she was afraid of failing. If the test had been bringing back a collection of rare herbs she would have been trilled, but that wasn't the case. She wasn't sure how she could hunt something as large as herself on her own and she couldn't be sure what kind of traps he had planned. There was so much uncertainty in herself and the unknown that she had been avoiding it all together. It wasn't something she could keep up for much longer... but she would continue to do it as long as she could. Daelos sighed at her own thoughts and lifted her head to look around and see where she had ended up. She had somehow made it into the knolls. She realized then that she had followed the same path as she had the last time she left the pack lands. The sun was high in the sky, shining directly on her back and made the late spring day pretty warm. She walked to the top of one of the hills and looked down at the buffalo that were grazing down in the valley. Her eyes landed on a calf and she wondered to herself if that was big enough prey to satisfy Elias' demands. Could she even get to it without getting trampled by the larger buffalo near by? How would she get it back to the pack? She huffed and turned away so she could go look for some herbs - the one thing she knew to do to comfort herself and make herself useful. |