WHO: Greta, Hati, Skoll WHEN: Monday night WHERE: The woods the wolves live in WHAT: A gift for her friends. WARNINGS: References to violence, creepy sexuality, and eating small defenseless animals.
There was a small voice in the back of Greta's head that said this was a very bad idea and that letting them hunt her (and enjoying that) was one thing, but this reached a whole new level of wrongness. But she grew closer to the wolves, although not in the way that anyone could understand. It wasn't even a way that Greta understood, but she'd stop fighting it.
She'd run from them and let them hunt her, she'd let those wolves do anything that they wanted to her. A good girl would stay indoors, but Greta scratched and bit and fought against them just like they wanted and just like she wanted too.
But tonight was different. Tonight she wasn't the only prey.
Greta knew that they'd find her in the woods. They could find her when she walked alone and silent, and tonight the lamb in her arms wriggled against her, bleating and crying. Already its hooves were scratching up her arms.
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[info]hatefulwolf 2011-08-08 05:27 pm UTC (link) Track This Hati could smell both girl and prey, and it confused him a little. Little Red indulged them in letting them run at her heels and snap at them, and it pleased him. It kept his instincts sharp for when Moon came back to him and continued the true chase.
He walked to her on two legs, raising an eyebrow at the lamb in her arms. It knew what he was, even in his skin of man. "She even brings us dinner." Grinning he walked closer, knowing his brother would be close.
Silently, using the bond he had to Treachery he told his brother to bring the pups along. The lamb would barely make a meal for him or his brother, but the pups needed more training, and the lamb could teach them about being careful for hooves. "Hello Little Red."
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[info]treacherous_ 2011-08-08 06:03 pm UTC (link) Track This Skoll perked up when he got Hati's message, and started rounding up the pups so they could head off to meet him. 'Plenty of time for wrestling later,' he said, disentangling a pair of them. 'Beta's calling. Time to learn to hunt.'
Herding them along toward his brother, he saw both him and Little Red up ahead, but maintained his pace, not wanting to leave the pups behind. Once they were all there, he told them, in a tone that brooked no argument, 'Stay put, or no more wrestling later.' Once they were as still as they were ever going to be, he shifted into his human form.
"They're squirmy," he remarked, rolling his eyes at Hati. "Hello, Little Red," he said, noticing the lamb she carried. "Is that for eating, chasing, or teaching?" he asked.
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[info]pathofcinders 2011-08-09 08:09 am UTC (link) Track This The lamb hadn't been calm before, but now with predators here it was completely panicking, Greta's bare arms getting further cut up the longer she held it.
She'd never seen the pups before and she couldn't help but watch them, confused by the sheer existence of them. It meant Hati and Skoll had bred with normal female wolves, didn't it? Greta hadn't thought they would even be able to breed like that. (Although perhaps, thinking about it, that was for the best. If they bred like wolves then that probably meant Greta couldn't end up pregnant. The idea of 'protection' hadn't exactly come up in their hunting games.)
Greta held the lamb as still as she could, but it was crying loudly to get away. "It's for you," she told them. "For whatever you want it for."
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[info]hatefulwolf 2011-08-09 07:58 pm UTC (link) Track This "All three," he glanced back to the pups, growling low in his throat to get them to calm down. But they'd smelled the meat, so he couldn't fully blame them. "It is summer. Too much energy." He shrugged and walked to Greta, extending his hands to take the lamb from her. He was stronger and easily wrestled it to the ground, pinning it down there.
I could cry, but would get far. "All scratched up Little Red," he smiled up at her. "So kind to give us an advantage." He had the pups come closer, using his nails to get a scratch on the lambs neck. He let the pups smell it before suddenly releasing it. They were a little confused before taking up the chase.
He rose, intending to stay until the pups caught the lamb. He wouldn't help more then that. "Good of you to bring it. Pups need to learn that hooves hurt. We will chase when they bring it down."
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[info]treacherous_ 2011-08-10 04:33 pm UTC (link) Track This "True enough," he said. "Should've seen them this morning, like a five-way wrestling match with teeth and claws."
He smelled the blood once Hati made the scratch, watched them take off after the frightened creature. And it wasn't just the lamb he could smell, Greta's scent hung heavy in the air too, the smells mixing in the air.
"They do," he agreed. "Sharp and nasty when the animals are scared. But they have to learn the hard way, or they won't at all."
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[info]pathofcinders 2011-08-10 06:20 pm UTC (link) Track This "I'll wait," she told Hati, eyes on his in the darkness.
Then she turned to look at Skoll as he spoke and she found herself smiling at his description. "They're sweet things," she said, but realised that maybe the wolves wouldn't want to hear their pups described that way. So she went on. "Are they like the both of you? I mean, can they take human shape?"
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[info]hatefulwolf 2011-08-10 08:41 pm UTC (link) Track This He smiled at her before walking to his brother and taking a seat beside him. He listened to Greta, chuckling at her description of sweet. "For now." He glanced to Skoll, "and we weren't much different brother. At least until we were put into the sky. Then I missed the wrestling."
He shook his head and looked to Greta, "no. Maybe. Probably not. Our blood is not strong enough anymore. There have been pups like us, but not anymore. These are wolf. Bigger then most of their cousins, and stronger, but wolf." He glanced to Skoll, "when thy grow we'll need to expand the pack, or bring others here so they can make their own. Best the blood mixes."
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[info]treacherous_ 2011-08-10 09:05 pm UTC (link) Track This Skoll snorted, settling in next to Hati. "Could make the argument we're still that way," he said with a small grin. "I did too."
"Too much time has passed," he agreed. "More than like, they're just wolves, like he said." He tilted his head, considering Hati's words. "We could find more, try parts of the forest we haven't looked in yet. Maybe Canada." He shrugged.
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[info]pathofcinders 2011-08-14 04:48 pm UTC (link) Track This Greta's eyes had flicked between the two of them at the mention of leaving for Canada, her heart speeding up a little as she tried to imagine her life now without them. She didn't want them to leave! (Part of her begged them to go though, part of her said it would be safer and better for her. Greta hated that part though. That part didn't know what was best for her. Hati and Skoll were best for her.)
"You don't need to go that far to find forests," she said, perhaps a little too quickly.
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[info]hatefulwolf 2011-08-14 09:38 pm UTC (link) Track This He laughed and gave his brother a playful shove, "that'd be where'd they learned then. Besides, I missed wrestling with you." Smiling he wrapped his arm around his brother, "I only have one brother, and I spend long years without him by my side."
He glanced to Greta and smirked, "Little Red, we wouldn't be gone long. Besides, the other forests they don't have wolves. Save the one called Yellowstone. We must go, find wolves, and come back. I will see these forests with my kin again. We belong here. Maybe you can do us a favor Little Red. Fidn a way to make this a sanctuary, so no hunters can come and make pelts out of my pups." He raised his head as he heard a loud screech of an animal dying. "They caught it. Let's round them up, then we chase Little Red." He released his brother, "find the one responsible for the pups and have them bring them to the den with their kill. Let the others know this is the pups kill too, will you?"