11/17/2025, 8:51 PM
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Just outside of DB, all welcome!
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The air grew colder with each passing day. The snow would decorate the sky, dancing flakes cascading through the breeze in intricate patterns as the wind took hold. The prey would steadily grow scarcer, and the summer blossoms would quietly shrivel up. But that wasn't what worried him. It was the lingering ache of decay — he could feel it, the way it twined with the very roots of their world. Quieter now, but only slightly ... only slightly ... as it allowed the tender grip of winter to take hold.
This world was in pain.
But ... so was his stomach.
And it would remind him with a rough rumble.
A soft sigh escaped the boy's lips as he meandered, drawing himself just outside the border of the pack that currently housed his family. He would try his best to ignore the strangeness of Mythris for now, if only for a few moments, so that he could hunt. He wanted to fill his belly and perhaps bring home some leftovers for his mother and sisters.
And so he would wander, nose to the earth, filtering through the menagerie of scents to try to sort out where he could find a snack.
It wasn't often he wandered so far away from his mother, but perhaps now that he had grown in size, that meant his bravery would grow as well. After all, he couldn't be a mewling babe for the rest of his life, not when there was so much danger in the world. Hawthorn wanted to be more than that — to do more than that.
But that was for another day.
Today, he would start with a rabbit.