no one's gonna love you more than i do.
10-15-2014, 07:30 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-15-2014, 07:30 PM by Talon I.)
The tall stone structure loomed above him unforgivingly. Talon swore it was taunting him -- reminding him of how pitifully small he was, compared to the rest of the world. Pale silver gaze was trained to the top of the structure, eying it warily as he stood, wavering on three paws. It reminded him of the wall in the north, where he'd reunited with Kangi after she had quietly fled from the northern King's pack. It had been so long since he had last seen her... and even longer since he had seen her truly happy. They had been so optimistic for awhile, thinking they'd found a place that they might someday call home, but that pack had quickly fallen into chaos as politics they did not understood unfolded. A soft sigh left his lips as he stood, staring unblinkingly at the castle before him. All he had craved was stability. A place for him to live beside Kangi, without fear and without worry that their entire lives would be uprooted without a moment's notice. It seemed impossible for him to find happiness; the moment it felt like it might be within reach, it was torn from their grasp. Slowly his paws would carry him closer to the foreign structure, one careful step after, his gait a bit uneven as he scoped out the nearest perimeter. He tasted the air, finding it stale but interesting. This wasn't a place that had been explored well, and it was certainly uninhabited. How had he gotten so far south, anyway? The storms had been strong, nearly unbearable for the lanky man. It seemed that only fate had kept him alive, managing to find shelter each night without much struggle. The north had held bad memories for him, and the central lands weren't much worse so weeks had crawled into months as he made his way south. With a fair bit of uncertainty he would duck beneath a piece of fallen stone, under the shelter of the structure overhead. Talon would begin to explore the lower half of the castle, stumbling awkwardly over crumbling stones and vegetation that had begun to overtake the stone building. His motions were aimless and repetitive, his mind wandering further with each moment that passed, darkening as the sun set slowly began its descent below the horizon. |
