Empty Shell
03-31-2013, 04:37 PM
The deadlands of the west known as the Sycari Strip were gripped in uncharacteristically hospitable weather this day, and so conveniently it was this day that the two trailblazers named Nurra and Shini reached this place in their ongoing adventure across Alacritis. The pleasant winds blew clean through their fur and scales and kept the heat of the sunrays from staying long at all after striking their black forms. The earth looked incredibly beautiful now, rugged ridges and cuts of the land's scars weaving a mystical design stretching to each horizon, and at least one of the wandering two was admiring the sight. The amethyst-eyed wolf loved the experience of finding new places, especially magical and stunning territories such as this one, and nothing could hope to tear the smile from her face. As she eyed the maze of cracks all below her, a childish part of her mind suddenly possessed her to make a game of hopping over each one and made a sudden sprint downhill, shouting back to the snake that took residence on her shoulders, "Hold on!" A startled and confused Shini called back, "What the he-" cut off as she nearly took a plunge from her mount, saved by a quick reaction to clutch a mouthful of fur into her tiny maw. Nurra bounced and dashed across the landscape, bounding over large and small fissures, from this chunk of earth to the next, her graceful paws never faltering. She giggled like a pup, enjoying immensely this simple entertainment and the soothing gusts flowing through her dark fur, but her friend was terrified at the wild ride she was made to endure, being tossed around with each hop, and may have been screaming if her jaw wasn't clamped shut on her lifeline. She was saved, though, as something distracted the excited wolf away from her game. The shape of another wolf suddenly intruded into her vision, nearly missed as she was focused on the ground below her. This stranger looked similar to her, wearing black upon his back that faded lighter below, but that coat wrapped around a much larger, impressive masculine body. Still huffing and grinning wildly from the excitement of her playful bit of exercise, she strode quickly up to the stranger, wasting no time before announcing her presence with a greeting, "Heh, hello stranger! What are you doing out here in the middle of nowhere?" |