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*Erani* · 09-04-2013, 01:39 PM

Erani

Moonlight touched the pale form as it made its way across a small meadow, a ghost among silvered grass, pausing to examine something, before moving on. A sound came from the form, a soft humming of a lullaby.

Erani couldn?t sleep this evening. Several times she had tried, but every time she was nearly there, she jerked awake, neck prickling and tingling. So she?s risen and gone to take a stroll, hoping the crisp Autumn night air would clear the feeling of? Anticipation? Yes, it was something like that. An urgency. So her paws took the familiar, automatic path to where Cairo slept. It was a leisurely pace, and yet the urgency didn?t ease. It wasn?t fear, but it made her toes ache, and her hackles ripple lightly. She?d learned to pay attention to these feelings. They meant something, something important.

Erani slowed as she reached the small glade and it?s patch of now flowerless herbs that marked the resting place of Cairo. She approached, lowering herself to lay nearby, and let the peaceful place flow through her, listening. Tell me what it is? A precise moment later the coincidental turn of the wind brought the scents of Autumn air and? She frowned, head lifting, before the scent truly registered. Then her eyes widened and she rose, turning into the scent wind, ears pressed forward, before she glanced down at the herbs. ?He?s come home.?

She stepped out at a long lope. There had been something wrong in his scent. When she reached his location, she stood a moment, just staring at him. Luna, what had happened to him? He?d been gone for? Almost two years, perhaps one and a half? He?d vanished the night she?d been attacked when trying to find an herb that might save Guinevere I? She had a faint memory of his muzzle pressing into her neck, and a tongue over one of the bleeding wounds. An impression of a howl. Then departing paws. That was the last time Coeus Adravendi had been seen, alive or dead.

?Coeus?? What had happened to him? He?d gained so many new scars? an ear had been torn, and the other looked crinkled. There was something else. He limped badly? His leg? It was twisted, and her healer?s instinct knew there was no saving it. It had already healed, set wrong, and twisted? ?Coeus??

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