's' is for 'smothering'

*Silverback* · 07-18-2013, 03:02 PM

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A geiyser field. Silverback hadn't seen one of these in a while. Her whiskered muzzle twitched in amusement, long feelers as transparent as spider silk, bowing forward with pleasure, a sentiment reflected in the depths of her grey eyes. The last time she'd been to such a place, had been when she was naught but a cub - trailing along behind her mother on paws larger than her face. She'd been huge even then, and while her siblings went so slow that the mother had to drop pace, Silverback had been able to race around an explore. She'd trotted right up to one such well of boiling water and stuck her head in. The raw heat had been so incredible - so wonderful. For a species who knew that warmth was life, it seemed like a miracle. But the steam began to thicken, and on that day, had she not run back to her mother at the first tremble of the ground, she would've died in the blistering eruption of water. So why did she recall it with fondness? The look on her mother's face when the Silverback had spilled out the story of her near-death experience. The old silver she-cat had blinked laconically, twitched and ear and said simply "curiosity killed the cat", and kept walking. No big. Silverback had been dumbfounded by her mother's calm that day, but not anymore. She'd more or less turned into the matron as time had woven it's spell.

These jets were quiet today. It was warm around them, and the snow for some space was melted back, but other than that, there was nothing to point the land out as strange. The snow leopard eased herself forward on silent, fur padded paws, her elongated tail twitching back and forth, a hair's breath away from trailing. Unlike most creatures, her tread allowed her to walk like an angel; Excluding the lightest and fluffiest of snows, she could glide her way across the top of any drift. That was what it meant to be a cat. Silences, stealth and poise in every step. It also meant incredibly keen senses. Sense telling her right now that she was no longer alone in the world of white.

(ooc: open to everyone!)

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