The storm came hard and fast, swooping down on the unsuspecting Tracker and her companion with a fury that had Janna wondering if she’d offended the Creator in some way. Within moments her clothes were soaking, plastered against her like a second skin and she could barely see a few feet in front of her, despite her acute eyesight.

 

Though harsh the rain was warm and to Janna’s surprise Silver was not afraid. The poor pup had an intense fear of storms, mostly the thunder, Silver would quiver and shake, press tightly against Janna and welcome soft strokes and comfort. But this storm was free of the dark rumblings and the flashes of lightning that followed. It actually felt…..welcoming. A warm balm, strong but safe. Wild but something to be trusted.

 

Almost there Chime, just ahead….just…. The cub jumped against Janna, leaving muddy footprints on Janna’s trousers before she danced a bit further down the trail. Silver was ecstatic at having discovered a new Wanderer on her own, perhaps that’s why the storm did not frighten the young wolf. The Head Tracker watched with a smile as the cub sprinted ahead, her coat turned a light grey by the rain (not to mention the mud and the Creator knew what else she insisted on investigating and then rolling in). Janna shuddered to think what the wolf would smell like when she cuddled close later in the evening.

 

Not that she minded. In fact, Silver had gone a long way to mending Janna’s broken heart over the loss of her beloved Wind. She snorted to think what the old wolf would say to being called beloved.

 

He’d make a scathing remark about two-legs and the silly thing they called love….he’d brush it off with a sneeze and a superior stare.

 

Sniffling a bit Janna reached out for Silver, felt her not far ahead and retreated. But the pup had felt her need, as she always did. Bounding back she ran at Janna full speed, head low and golden eyes intent, stopping only at the last moment to gracefully brace her front paws against the Tracker knees.

 

Windracer would say he loves you, Chime. As I do.

 

Janna dropped to her knees and cuddled Silver close, wet wolf smell and all. They sat frozen like that for several moments, until Silver’s slight wiggling shook the Tracker out of the past.

 

They’re over the next hill, Chime! And he wants to play! If wolves could laugh out loud Silver did then, with a sharp bark as she bounded away, heart full of joy as she searched out her new Wanderer.

 

Janna Telenvar

Twisted Chime

Head Tracker ~ Wolfsister

Companion to Silver

 

OOC: Janna is in her mid twenties, black hair worn in a tight braid (before she became a tracker she wove silver bells into her hair – hence the name). Her right arm is crippled, stunted since birth and she generally keeps it tucked tightly against her. Carries a crossbow specially made for her and a heavy pack. Silver is her new companion, a white pup, very young and enthusiastic – feel free to npc both as you need. ;) Welcome to the Wolfkin!

"Oh, it is so cold..." whispered Skylar, her body soaked through as she held Cloud in her arms. "I need a room, somewhere... I am sorry Cloud." Cloud looked up at her, sadness and disappointment in his eyes. "I'm just so wet and dirty..." Kissing the top of Cloud's head, she giggled as he licked her cheak, trying to clean her. "Thank you, Cloud, now only a billion lillion licks to go!" she laughed harder, her arms snuggling Cloud for a moment before she set him down. "Go run for a moment, then we should find the road..." In the dark, rainy night, Sky was having a hard time see, even though on any other night she would be fine. She tried to smell for any two-leggers, wait, humans, but could smell none.

 

Cloud was dancing on his wobbly paws, his body becoming that of a rabbit as he skipped around the forest floor. Giggling, Skylar joined in, her body moving with the sound of the rain and trying to keep up with Cloud. He was excited and wanted to play, and who was Skylar to try and stop him?

 

Play! Play! please? Skylar stopped where she was dancing and wrapped her arms over her chest.

 

`Hmmmm.... No!` The stern look on her face disappeared in a laugh as Cloud ran around in a circle, half chasing his tail, half hiding his nose under his own body. `Dance!`

 

Skylar twirled, her arms open to the air above her, and she felt Cloud jumping around happily at her feet. Setting down the basket she held, she danced in the rain, her cloak twirling and swirling. Her feet moved around quickly and she felt herself going dizzy and weary after a few more turns. Falling down to the ground, Skylar giggled as Cloud raced to her, licking her nose over and over, wanting her back up to dance more.

 

"We need to go, Cloud. We really should. Two-leggers cant just walk around..." Light! what was wrong with her? "I mean, humans can't just walk around in the rain and be fine. I need a warm bed!" said Skylar before a sneeze escaped her. Cloud looked as if to laugh, a happy bark coming from him, and Skylar jumped up, rubbing her nose. "See?" she asked Cloud, and laughed as he ran ahead.

 

Chimes... Silver... Chimes? Silver? Then Skylar saw them. A woman and a wolfpup. Either this was a very good friend, or a very bad enemy. "Cloud?!" `Cloud, here` Cloud came racing back, and immediately, Skylar's fears were put to rest. Friends.

 

Nodding her head once, Skylar collected up her things and allowed Cloud to jump up in her arms, his paw tired and sore after only being on it a few days since the accident. The woman seemed relieved to be finding her, and Skylar attempted a curtsy with Cloud in her arms and the basket resting there. "Hello..."

 

Skylar Rain

Cloud

a pair o' younguns

 

OOC: http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/gamecox5989/pictures%20for%20siggis/cloud.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/gamecox5989/pictures%20for%20siggis/juliakravets.jpg

thats what they look like

Silver danced through the rain, her light coat turned darker by a combination of raindrops and the mud she insisted on rolling through. Her paws were coated dark brown with it and it spread up her hind and front legs like a shadow, making her glow a dark grey.

 

Janna felt a moment of heart rending sorrow. Silver looked so very much like Windracer would have in his youth, virile, strong….alive.

 

The Head Tracker shook the thought away abruptly and struggled to concentrate on the new Wanderer before her, clutching her companion.

 

“Hello there,†Janna stepped forward and thrust her good hand forward, “My name is Janna Telenvar, and this must be Cloud.â€

 

The wolf pup wriggled in the young woman’s grasp and Janna caught her breath. “He’s hurt! Let’s get to a dry place, I have medicines to tend his wound.â€

 

Without looking back she turned and walked through the rain, toward a place Silver promised her was safe and dry. She prayed the new Wanderer followed. The muddy silver pup bounded ahead of her, yipping her anticipation of playing with one of her own age. Janna smiled indulgently…..

 

The cave was snug and already warm, a fire would be nice though. Silver darted off to collect wood, something Windracer would have thought way beneath himself, Janna thought wryly. She could not help but compare the two….Windracer had been standoffish and gruff but she had never for a moment doubted his love. Silver was still so young…she lived in the moment and her emotions and love were freely given and just as easily forgotten.

 

She struck steel against flint and the fire sputtered to life. As she fed it the offerings Silver brought she observed the new Wanderer and her wolf companion from beneath her lashes. Already close… that bodes well for her….the cub can help her through the worst….

 

Janna prepared the mixture of mardroot and sunburst quickly and efficiently before handing the cooling dented pot to Skylar, “This should soothe his ache…and be nasty enough tasting that he won’t lick it off.â€

 

 

Janna Telenvar

Twisted Chime

Head Tracker ~ Wolf Sister

Companion to Silver

 

OOC: So ask Janna any questions IC or OOC! Pm or icq me with any questions!!!!

"Hello there," said the strange woman. She had one arm close against herself and the other was offered out to Skylar. Sky looked at the shivering Cloud in her arms and decded a quick nod would be best. Cloud wasnt scared, whoever she was. He actually seemed comforted by the fact this woman was here. "My name is Janna Telenvar, and this must be Cloud."

 

Friends. Cloud wiggled his tail and licked Skylar's hand, and she just snuggled him closer.

 

"He's hurt! Let's get to a dry place, I have medicines to tend his wound." Janna began walking after her muddy wolfpup, and Skylar grabbed her things and began following the woman.

 

`I understand. Safe.` This woman was obviously like her- house else could she have found them and be in the company of a wolfpup? But what was she was the question.

 

They reached the cave in quick time, and it was already warm. Setting the basket down, Skylar fell to the cave floor and pulled out a clean cloth from her basket and began whiping at Cloud's injured paw. She wanted it clean before she began trying to wrap it again. The puppy dashed out the cave. "What..." began Skylar, but Cloud could read her thoughts and told her, Silver, Fire.

 

Nodding, she didnt look up at Janna and instead tried to wipe off Cloud as best she could. She even used half her water on Cloud. He was as clean as best she could get, and with his big puppy eyes, he asked her if it was time to go to an inn now so he could be clean. She laughed and hugged Cloud tight, enjoying his spirit when she knew he was in pain.

 

 

As if on cue, Janna handed Skylar a poultice for the wound. "This should soothe his ache, and be nasty enough tasting that he won't lick it off."

 

Skylar sniffed at it lightly and smiled at the mix. "Sunburst root and mardroot? Interesting. I would have used five-finger and sunburst root. Well, and a pinch of aloe for the taste. Where are you from that you use mardroot?" Skylar began applying it to the wound, her fingers gentle as she coated it on there thick, making certain his wound was covered.

 

"The borderlands... how do you know what these herbs are?" Janna seemed surprised that Skylar knew so much.

 

"Oh, I just know this and that. I was adopted by a wisdom, and grew up there. I know enough about herbs to get me by, however, when Cloud and I first came into contact, we were just trying to get away." Not to mention the headaches, the change in her senses, and the need for meat she had had. How did she tell Alex she was a wolf?

 

Before Janna could ask about her studies, Skylar asked, "What am I? How can I talk to Cloud? And how did you find me?"

Janna smiled, a smile tinged with both joy and bitterness. “You, my child are a Wolfkin. And like me you have a gift, though it took me many years to see it as such.” The Head Tracker turned to the fire and gingerly removed the battered tea pot she’d set simmering on the outer coals. Pouring two cups she handed one to Skylar and sipped, wondering how best to explain.

 

“I was only sixteen when the Howling came to me. Many try to fight the gift as I did, thinking something must be wrong with them. I was even called…a Darkfriend.” Janna shuddered and failed to mention it had been her own mother who uttered those dire words.

 

“I ran….as so many of us do. Ran into the wild to survive or starve. If not for my precious Windracer I would never have lived.” A tear escaped and ran a reckless track down Janna’s face. “He’s gone now, but he taught me that wolves can sometimes be more nurturing than two legged’s, more accepting.”

 

She turned to stare straight into Skylar’s eyes, golden now as were her own, “Windracer led me to the Stedding, where many of our kind are gathered. We…help one another. And it is safe there, Skylar. We can teach you how to use your gifts, nurture them. And one with your healing knowledge would be more than welcome.”

 

Silver butted against Janna’s arm, sensing her sadness. Bending her head she nuzzled with the cub for a moment before turning her attention back to her new Wanderer.

 

“Will you come with me to meet them?”

 

Janna Telenvar

Twisted Chime

Head Tracker ~ Wolf Sister

Companion to Silver

 

OOC: Sorry for the lateness and shortness of the post! Holiday! :P

Janna smiled at her and Skylar threatened to roll her eyes. Why was it that adults always smiled when she asked a question. Were they going to fault her curiousity and questions on the fact that she was young? How was she to know items that had never been presented to her? How was she supposed to know everything. Light, adults were such odd two-leggers. Even Cloud looked up from Skylar's lap and gave a little yelp of a laugh at Skylar's thoughts.

 

“You, my child, are a Wolfkin. And like me you have a gift, though it took me many years to see it as such.” A gift. Wasn't that always what things were? Skylar had to roll her eyes at this one. When Sky had gotten her monthly just a fortnight before leaving, Alex had called it a gift, a blessing, and a sign of womanhood. A gift? More like a torture. She hurt in areas deep inside and she didnt like the dizzy feeling. And anyways, how could anyone, expeccially someone of her size, bleed that much without dieing? It defeated all the past knowledge she had gained on common medicine. A gift? Ha! There was worse to come and Janna shouldn't sugar coat anything.

 

Sky accepted the cup of tea she was handed and sniffed at it lightly before taking a sip. Ouch! It burned her tongue! Sky made a face and shriveled up her nose at the burning on her tongue and the odd tasting mixture. `Try?` Sky placed the tea cup in front of Cloud, who simply burrowed his face in the corner of her inner knee and avoided the mixture. What was the woman trying to do- poison them?

 

“I was only sixteen when the Howling came to me. Many try to fight the gift as I did, thinking something must be wrong with them. I was even called…a Darkfriend.” Sixteen? Only sixteen? Light, Sky was only thirteen. Well, not only thirteen. She was a whole thirteen and a half- and the half DOES matter. What was so wrong with being young? After all, it was better than being old and around.. fourty? Fifty? How old was this Janna anyways? 'Old...' Sky had to cover her mouth wth both hands to hide the laugh as she heard Cloud speak to her.

 

“I ran….as so many of us do. Ran into the wild to survive or starve. If not for my precious Windracer I would never have lived.” Janna looked about to cry and Skylar felt bad for the smile. Perhaps the woman wasn't SO bad. She could be worse, after all. And at least she hadn't been forced to clean or anything icky like that. “He’s gone now, but he taught me that wolves can sometimes be more nurturing than two legged’s, more accepting.” Two legged... that phrase was appearing far too often for Sky's taste. Of course, if the tea hadn't been too hot, perhaps her taste wouldn;t have been BURNED a few minutes before. Silly old two legger...

 

Skylar looked up and saw golden eyes looking at her. Well, those were wierd... pretty but wierd. Who had golden eyes? It was bizarre and not right by nature. “Windracer led me to the Stedding, where many of our kind are gathered. We…help one another. And it is safe there, Skylar. We can teach you how to use your gifts, nurture them. And one with your healing knowledge would be more than welcome.”

 

Go somewhere? With her? Skylar didn't know about that. What if they turned out to be thieves or murderers or worse? Skylar was doing just fine on her own and didn't need anyone's help. “Will you come with me to meet them?”

 

Skylar looked down at Cloud who was peering up at her. `Should we?` 'Caution...' "I don't know. Your story is touching at all, but I just found freedom. Cloud and I are perfectly fine on our own. However, traveling with someone else would be alot safer, so... Perhaps we can travel there, and then I decide if I stay? I don't even know if I am a.. wolfkin, you called me?"

 

'You are!' Skylar saw a picture of herself in her mind's eye, golden eyes now attached to what she had last seen. She picked up the tea cup and stared at her reflection in the metal. Her eyes were yellow and she stared in shock. Was she really one of them?

 

Janna looked at her, waiting, and she nodded slowly. "I will go with you."

 

ooc: its ok :D