street fight

Avantika · 05-22-2021, 02:51 PM

It had been a while since Resin's death, but somehow it still seemed like it had happened yesterday. Avantika was aware of the passage of time, of course. But it didn't change anything. She still patrolled the borders almost 24/7, spinning her metaphorical wheels and trying not to think. She was hiding from her emotions. Otherwise, it was sure that they would destroy her, like an explosion, shattering everything she held dear to the wind.

She was less volatile. There was just a cool, frightening emotionlessness. Detachment. That was all she had left. But she had adapted, however rough and temporary the adaptations were. She had figured out a way to keep breathing and keep her heart beating even without the woman who was closer to a mother than anyone she had ever known. The woman who was her mother. She hadn't birthed her, but the wolf who did never exactly took up the charge, so someone had to. And now she had left her, just like her birth mother.

Kaata urged Avantika to go still. From her place high above the surface, the hawk warned "Bear. Grizzly bear." She obeyed, pushing down the gnawing sense that the beast could hear her pounding heart. She could see it easily on the open plains. It was pretty far away. She could probably walk on by it as long as she didn't go any closer.

But she couldn't stop staring at it. It was outside of the pack borders by only about ten feet. Was that enough to be worth attacking? She didn't want to kill it. She wasn't that kind of girl. But... But. She couldn't just walk away.

Why did she always have to be the afraid one?

Making up her mind, she snarled loudly, making sure that the bear heard her. Anyone else around would be able to hear her too.

She charged and the bear came up to meet her.

"Avantika to Kaata telepathy"
"Kaata to Avantika telepathy"
"speech"

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