Life Ain't Always Beautiful

*Zeitgeist* · 07-20-2021, 06:07 PM

The noises outside woke her sharply from her slumber, and Zee’s head shot up so quickly that her damaged horns caught upon the roof with an audible screech. The prison-like den she’d been assigned was sized well enough for a wolf of her small stature, though she found she’d spent her time not within the spacious main cavern, but curled tightly in a poorly-carved nook along the rock wall. It was a space built out of panic and necessity - somewhere enclosed and dark and quiet to hide when the summer storms arrived with their thunder. Her claws had dulled to the quick in digging it, painting the walls with dry, cracking streaks of blood.

Zee crawled cautiously from her hole, pressing her emaciated form against the furthest wall from the entrance and fixing her eyes upon the door. The noises outside were familiar enough, pain, suffering, fury. There were voices too, almost as familiar as the sound of war outside her den, though she made no effort to recognize them. Zee knew she’d be expected to remain accessible when someone eventually came to collect her, so she resisted the urge to hide within her hole once more. The longer the sounds continued, the harder she found it to give the doorway a consistent eye-lock. Intimidated, she dropped her gaze to her toes, flexing and distracting herself by trying to tap her shortened claws against the den floor. She’d learned well enough by now the best ways to avoid their wrath, and surely after the events going on outside her captors would have plenty of it to redirect upon her.

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Life Ain't Always Beautiful

Sirius

Zeitgeist