Monkey Off Your Back
03-20-2013, 08:01 PM
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"Where are we going, anyway?" said a tiny voice coming from a wandering young wolf, much too tiny to belong to her. The landscape she wove through was an unearthly woodlands, dark even in the light of day, every ray being swallowed by the clouds and sparse treetops above. A mystical layer of gray mists blanketed the earth between the skinny trees all around. The phantom spoke again, but this time a little black reptilian head poked up from between the wolf's purple-rimmed ears and revealed the owner of the voice. "What'ss out here?" Now the wolf responded, the black-and-gray-furred girl with a swirl of fushia under each eye, "I don't know, Shini. Why do you think I would?" But she was curious, too. They had no real direction; she only did what she had ever since she was a pup: wandered. But what was this dreary place her roaming had taken her to? Petite paws, relative to the wolf's size, led the pair through the gloom and silence for a few minute more, then the loquacious snake said, "Sso... we're lost, then?" The shadowy wolf halted in her tracks, and sat upon her haunches. That was as good a cue as any to take a rest, she thought. She responded to the question of the little annoyance perched between her auds, tipping her head up habitually as she spoke, trying to face the other, "A wolf is never 'lost'！ Wherever we go is home." "Well if you don't know where your home iss, you're still lost！" smarted off Shinibana. "黙って！" snapped the she-wolf, as her ears shot forward. She lifted her light frame in an instant and looked about intently. The oblivious serpent kept talking, however. "Hah！ Just admit-" "No, really, be quiet - someone is near." she interrupted again. Those pointed ears had indeed caught a hint of something else existing in the eerie woodlands, perhaps hunting them. Her senses were much greater than those of the tiny reptile, especially when her scaled belly wasn't touching the earth to feel it's vibrations. Not that Shinibana much cared about predators. "What doess it matter?" she said, to which the larger creature responded, "You're food, remember? They might be hungry. Just stay down." Shinibana obeyed, but not before expressing her disapproval with a grunt. She buried herself into the wolf's scruff and became nearly invisible while her black scales blended against fur as dark. The dark wolf scanned around for the yet-to-be-revealed stranger, keeping her head up to better conceal her pet, while also trying to look like she wasn't just talking to the wind. ![[Image: NurraFlourishLeft.png]](http://darkhearted.com/images/NurraFlourishLeft.png) Mouse over Japanese speech for translation and pronunciation! ![[Image: NurraFlourishRight.png]](http://darkhearted.com/images/NurraFlourishRight.png) |