ardent

Old Pine



Chepi

Loner

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07-13-2013, 06:55 PM




The day had dawned eerily calm. Even though her small family knew she had made her mind up days ago, they still attempted to keep her from leaving. She wasn't heartless; she felt a tinge of sadness as she turned her back on her parents, on her siblings. However, she willed herself to look forward, to not cave into the itching desire to give them one last, longing look over her shoulder. She would return... one day.



Luckily, the earthen female knew the North well enough. Through trees, up valleys, and around mountains, she traveled. The bitterness of the northern wind was cold in her lungs, and she breathed deeply, savoring it. She planned to head south, somewhere. There was more to this land than snow. There had to be more plants than the scraggled things she would find hiding around tree roots or under the snow. The new Spring had brought new life, but it hardly stirred anything up here.



Crunching footsteps stopped beneath a small, leaning pine. Before her laid the Frozen Field, a mass of meadow covered in ice and snow. If Chepi squinted, she could spy the very tips of grass that tried so hard to reach the warming sun. A glance to the sky told her it was nearing afternoon. A stiff wind blew across the open area, buffeting her with snow and tiny shards of ice. Tawny chin lifted as she took in the stinging scents, wondering if her travel would be interrupted by wolf, or more-welcome prey.



She could not pinpoint any smell in particular, and with a cautious glance behind her with liquid gold gaze, she began her trek across the field. She shook her coat out once she was in the sun, enjoying the bleak warmth if offered. The south was supposedly warm, sometimes hot and humid - how she would handle that, she hadn't quite figured out. The North had always been her home, and she relished the cold.



A fluffy banner of chocolate and tawny swung slowly behind her as Chepi continually glanced about, feeling vulnerable for the first time in her short life.