Test Your Luck

Walk | Talk | Think

Callisto felt agitated, frustrated. Summer had given way to autumn much too soon, and brought back her dreaded heat with it. She was paranoid to put it simply, though it was understandable considering her history. After being forced upon by Lel and then kidnapped so that she could not terminate the pregnancy he had caused, she had good enough reason to feel anxious and out of sorts. He had found her once; who was to say he would not find her again and drag her away a second time?

Which made her mission in leaving Ebony lands the most reckless thing she had ever done, worse yet than when she had left the first time and placed herself unknowingly in Lel's path. At least this time she was staying close, and with a distinct purpose behind her actions compared to only a restlessness that had driven her before. After scouring the pack lands and finding nothing plant-wise that might help alleviate her condition - and not feeling comfortable enough to bring it up with her healer king, Kassander, for his opinion - she had at last given in and left.

The thicket was quiet, made so by the feline who stalked through the bushes and unsettled the numerous birds that lived there. A commotion earlier left Callisto feeling pretty confident that the cat was helping herself to a meal somewhere in the mess of overgrowth, but keeping tabs on her annoying little companion she wished would leave anyway was nowhere close to being on her agenda. As she walked, the black and grey wolf's keen nose scented, sifting through the many different smells and trying to pick one out that might lead to something useful.