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 Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 9:58 am
Tahayh growled under her breath, for weeks now she'd been at the mercy of the damn trapper who'd caught her, mistaking her for a dog with her brightly colored fur. He wouldn't have normally been able to get close but she had been starving, the area hunted by Men, so was sparse of prey but she's stayed around since there weren't other Wolves to contend with. The ONE time she'd chanced trying to steal meat from the trapper's noose, she had become entangled in one herself, it was only a paw but she'd be reluctant to gnaw it off to escape. (not that she had the energy to though) So a few weeks later and she'd almost become grateful to the grizzly old man that had been on his last rounds before heading back into the town, since she'd been on the verge of starving to death, whereas now she was fairly plump. He'd decided to take her, to try and tame the wild 'dog' and maybe sell it in the town, she'd even overheard him mumbling some rubbish in his coarse language. If she'd been able to understand, she'd have tried to escape already, the old fellow mumbling about pit fights if she didn't 'tame up' enough. A few days later they'd arrived, and immediately she changed hands, first to a harsh musher who, once realising that his dogs hated the new 'dog' put her up front and for a good couple of months she ended up being chased almost daily by the 'pack' .. not that she could call it a Pack, just a rag tag bunch of mutts that thought they were superior. Unfortunately the musher had a drinking problem, that was combined with a gambling problem, and was forced to hand her over as payment in a lost bet. This time round wasn't so bad, the family were kind enough and while they weren't professional mushers, they trained their dogs fairly but they didn't allow Tayah a moment of freedom, they'd seen what she could do to an animal, and were slightly suspicious of the previous owners claims of her being a good sled 'dog' but what else could she be? with her bright fur that rarely occured in nature, if she was a wolf, surely she'd have died as a pup, or from starvation because of the failure of winter camouflage they reasoned. This is day 19 of her second home, and Tayah is extremely restless, the moon was bright and full, and her whole body twitched for freedom. She scrabbled at the fencing, trying to dig her way out but that didn't work. She sat, looked up and Howled her moon song, which was followed with the sharp yapping of the dogs and then by the yells of the Men to shut the dogs up.
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Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2011 7:30 pm
 Leila trotted restlessly around the house, pausing constantly every now and then to scratch at the collar she had been given. Now, she was sure that most other dogs didn't have one, but her sister's humans were very worried they would be mistaken for wolves and shot, so they had tied a simple leather strip with a hook around each. They were very kind and caring, and they loved her endearing sister, even allowing them to go out whenever they pleased. Still, this was not the life for her, and her being there had been nothing but a mistake. After ensuring her sister's status (she had to let momma Akari and papa Lokai know, after all, lest they get worried. This was what her sister had always wanted, truthfully, but she knew their parents wouldn't allow it, which was why she had come in secret, with Leila offering her services as a messenger) she stretched, gave her a last, fond face-licking, and scrabbled through the hole in the door of the shed they were sleeping in that night.
Today was finally the day she would go back to her pack, and she was nothing less than excited. Once more she could feel the wind against her fur and the sky in its wholeness, no longer limited by the walls of a house or the borders of a window. Again, her sister's humans had been nice, but this was not the life for her.
Knowing full well that her sister was happy, she left, never once looking back. She wove easily between the shabby houses, the ones that had become familiar to her in the few days she had been here. Occasionally, a dog barked or growled, bristling its fur as she passed, but she and her sister had taught them from the very first day that they would accept no harassment from their lot. And so, besides that, she was able to reach the outskirts of the village with very little trouble.
Suddenly, she heard a howl, one that called for something, although she did not know what. It was obviously a wolf howl, and her ears pricked in a hurried attempt to catch the sound while, all around, the dogs were worked into a frenzy, with even the humans waking to yell at them. Instantly, she went to the shadows, hiding from any two-leggers who might think she was the cause of any noise and shuffling towards the origin of the howl she had heard. As she neared, a bright, orange pelt came into view, and her heart beat wildly. For a moment, she thought the wolf her sister, but it lasted less than a second and was soon overcome when she told herself that her sister's pelt was not as bright and certainly wasn't here, imprisoned behind a wall of the two-leggers short trees.
Approaching cautiously, she sat before the female on the other side of the fence, her head tilted quizzically and a question in her eyes.
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Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 12:51 pm
Tayah growled and threw herself against the fencing when the humans started shouting, she was trying to get out but couldn't seem to do it alone, and the damned dogs wouldn't help .. all they wanted to do was rip her to peices for being a wolf. In a fair fight, one on one, she'd have no problem but as dumb as dogs were, they never fought fair, then again, given the chance, neither would she.
As she threw herself against the fence again, she felt something give but it wasn't enough and she dropped to the ground to see a dog on the other side of the fence, immediately her hackles raised and she bared her teeth, until she took a deep breath..... that was no dog... despite the collar and the heavy scent of man on her, the female looking at her from the other side... was a wolf.
"What are you looking at Wolf?" she spat before throwing herself against the fence again, it gave the same as before but no further. She was still trapped, still a prisoner of the two leggers.
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Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 9:40 pm
Leila paused, head cocked, wondering if the canine before her was the wolf she had been looking for. She was still under a year old and her nose had been blunted after having spent days around the same smell over and over. All she could tell was that the bright-pelted being smelled of dirt, dog, and two-leggers, unable to dig any deeper to find the true scent of the wild beneath.
She jumped and backed away when the male (for, indeed, she thought the wolf was a dog, and male, for she was much larger than the other dogs she had seen) suddenly lunged at her, her ears flat and her fur on end. She might have been more scared if she were not used to dogs trying to attack her, and if there hadn't been a fence between them. But that wasn't the case and, shortly after, she sat again, the curiosity never leaving her eyes.
"I'm... looking at you," she replied, perplexed, her ears lowering with the confusion she felt. She thought it was obvious, and didn't realize that the Varg didn't mean the question literally, instead summing it up to the general stupidity she believed dogs held, having learned only how to follow direct orders and nothing more.
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Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 2:48 pm
Tayah glared at the wolf on the other side of the fence. The other wolf sat there, looking at her like she was a stupid dog, surely the other knew that SHE was a wolf too? .. She huffed and turned her back on the other for a moment, her shoulders hunched. Then she turned, ran a little ways and leapt up at the fence, trying to either clear it or break through somehow.
"Wolf, will you stop staring at me like a braindead mutt" she snapped, not helping her situation as she fell to the ground, she was annoyed that this fence was defying her, she was annoyed she'd been caught by humans in the first place, in general she was just plain annoyed at everything.
She scrabbled at the ground again, only succeeding in blunting her claws further before she flopped herself down and looked up at the moon again. She took a deep breath and howled once more, howling out her frustration.
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Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 5:30 pm
Leila didn't think she'd have to leap back so soon after she had settled down, but when she say the large male take a leap towards the fence (and therefore, her), she scrambled back, expecting some sort of collision but, surprisingly, hearing only a very mild one.
She looked up again when she thought it was safe, ears low in response to the dog's sharp words. His voice wasn't as deep as her Dragga's or pack storyteller's was and, because of that, seemed more blunt. Her ears were lowered only to, perhaps, quell the dog's anger; she wasn't here to fight. He did not inspire as much fear in her, although it could have been because of the barrier between them and the fact that, when it came down to it, she knew she could always outrun a dog larger than she was, despite her youth.
She didn't answer and, after a moment, when the dog had irritatedly left to drop onto the ground, neared the fence's edge, wondering how those two-leggers could have built something as study as trees but as small as two wolf tails pressed together. She pushed against it with a paw, feeling no give despite its most recent slam it had gone through. Upon closer inspection, she could see worn gouges on the other side and felt a well of sympathy bubble up in her. If she had been forced to stay in her sister's human's home, she probably would have done the same. But at least she would have had someone familiar with her.
She looked towards the dog, her eyes uncertain but resolved. She didn't know how much she could do, but she was sure she would try her best to help him escape.
But, unexpectedly, before she could even offer, the bright-pelted male before her howled. It told of all the frustrations he had been through, all the anger and sadness he felt. But it spoke of wolf, too, and she realized that he was the wolf she had been looking for, and that he, a Varg who was made to run and hunt as he chose, was imprisoned.
For a moment, she could only stare, shocked. It lasted until the chorus of barking dogs and yelling humans started up and, hurriedly, she began to dig desperately near the base of the fence. It wasn't in her to tell the Varg to shut his trap; that he would get them both caught. Instead, she focused all her energy onto the task at hand so that, if anyone did come, they would be able to escape with, hopefully, no harm done to either.
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Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 12:11 pm
Tayah sighed, she'd noticed how the other varg scrambled back whenever she flung herself at the fence and for some reason it irritated her. However she was too busy trying to get out to really care if she was making the other nervous.
The moment she began howling the dogs in the pen began their riot again. causing the humans to yell again. Curtains twitched as the young human cubs looked out. Tayah turned her head from the window at the sound of scrabbling where the other wolf had been, to see she'd began digging.
Now, this was probably more preductive since on that side of the fence was mostly just hard earth, this side was stone. "That's it!! you dig, i'll push" she offered up and pressed her head against the loose part of the fence. Hopefully with the two of them combined, the loose part would be dug out and Tayah could push her way through when there was enough of a gap. "Hurry wolf. The two leggers will be out any minute" she whispered.
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Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 3:00 pm
"O-okay," Leila replied, ears pivoting as she tried to determine how far the closest enemies were, and how fast they were coming. At the male's urges, she quickened, feeling the pads of her paws tearing against the sharp stones beneath the dirt but going faster, still. She didn't want to have to stay with them, reveal her sister's true lineage, or leave the Dragga stuck here. Plus, to be honest, the prospect of being hurt by the two-leggers' sharp sticks and burning flower and blunt clubs frightened her. And what if all of the dogs ganged up on them? They would be dead before they reached the borders!
Thankfully, none of her fears came true and, when she felt she had dug deep enough and heard a dangerous creak, she leapt back, lest the whole of the fence fall on her. After a quick assurance that the male was free to go (and here she was glad he did not have a rope or a chain about him), she dashed away. If he followed, it was his own choice. If he didn't, she was sure he could take care of himself. But what mattered most to her now that she had done her part was to get back home and return to her pack, the only family she had ever had.
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Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2011 2:09 pm
Tayah pushed against the fence while the other wolf dug, she also scrabbled but got mostly the stone flooring. She leaped back as the fence creaked scarily, but it didn't fall... it merely leaned very dangerously outwards. "Yes!" she exclaimed, stepping back a few paces to take a running jump up at the fence, she should, in theory, be able to reach the top of the fence now.
Tensing herself she ran, her back legs bunching beneath her and she jumped. There! she'd hooked her paws over the top, back paws scrabbling at the fence to get a hold to push herself that last little bit. Just a little further and .... YES she was out, springing lightly to the ground where the female had been stood just moments before.
Tayah watched the other varg dashing away and rolled her eyes again "does she expect me to chase her?" she mumbled to herself and was about to turn away when the people that had 'owned' her emerged and started shouting things in their horrid language. Now... Stubborn she might be but Tayah was not stupid and she took off after the other wolf, they might be useful to each other... yes, that was her mental reasoning for going after the smaller varg.
"Wait! Varg, Wait!" she called, catching up was harder for her since she was fairly plump from being fed regularly. She growled to herself "Going to have to get fit." She panted as she caught the other wolf up "Did you not hear my shout wait!?"
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Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 10:20 pm
Leila swiveled her ear back, acknowledging the male's entreaties but seeing no reason to stop, for no signs of a struggle reached her ears and he seemed to be faring well enough. Still, guilt compelled her to check, and she slowed and craned her neck to see what her ears could not. The male was gaining on her, and, assured of his safety, she resumed her sprint, although she took care to pace herself this time, both so that she would not tire too quickly, and so that the male had an opportunity to catch up.
She lowered her ears at the volume of his yell when he reached her side, and lowly bade him quiet, lest he let the humans learn of their location from what they could hear, not what they could see. Her short time with her sister's humans had taught her that their senses had been dulled by the flame, and she hoped that with enough distance between them, the cold night and their furless pelts would convince them that a warm night in bed was worth more than the effort it would take to catch them.
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Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 4:11 pm
Tayah kept pace with the female, she felt obliged, now that she'd caught up with the other, to thank her in some way. "Um .... i appreciate you getting me out of there" she said, her voice softening for a split second. Her ears flickered back and forth, keeping track of the slow, dumb two leggers and their dogs.
"Um... do you have a pack? maybe we could travel there, you know, safety in numbers and payback for helping me" she offered, she had no intention of staying around after, the moment the female found her pack, Tayah would be gone, she wasn't really the pack kind, or rather... most packs she met felt she was too strange, a female wolf that looked and acted and even, most of the time, smelled male. The only time she was quite obviously female was during the time she was fertile.
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