The Search (Open!!!)

[Njack]

"She killed someone?" Knot raised an eyebrow in surprise. "Wow. I wouldn't have expected it of a herb healer... or any wolf, actually, I guess."

Knot shook his head slightly, as if to get his mind back on track. "Yeah, you're right, we shouldn't get off track."

"Geez, where have I been?" he muttered softly to himself. "I don't even remember most of this stuff. Then again, I don't think I was at that battle... I wonder how many wolves are missing."

Trodding along, Knot suddenly smelled another scent. "This... is confusing. You said you just smelled Eurasia, right? I seem to be smelling... Yozoran. Heading in a completely opposite direction, though."

Muttering to himself again, Knot murmured, "And I smell fear."

[SaveAWolfxSaveALife]

Gade came to a halt. Knot was smelling something, and saying it aloud. "Yozoran?" he muttered. Now everything was starting to get confusing. He couldn't remember, but had to wonder, "Did Luma say that there was a Yozoran neophyte missing?" It was either something he remembered from someone saying, or something he was imagining. Remember. It couldn't be anything he remembered. "Maybe we should get Luma over here..."

(Hey, maybe we could throw Maline and Esrever in here. What do you think, Njack?)

[Njack]

"There is a Yozoran neophyte missing, I think," Knot agreed. "But I doubt he or she would have been able to escape... I don't know."

"We can't go back to Luma with just a scent. Hmm... We could follow it, but I think it's heading back to the packs."

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(And sure! I'll start!)

But just then, a rustling came from the... er... bushes. That just materialized a few feet left of Knot and Gade. In the middle of all that grass. Huh.

?skcap ehT Esrever thought. ...pmac taht tfel ew retfa meht tsol I thguoht I

"Hey. Maline." Esrever whispered. "You're still behind me, right? What do you make of this?"

Actually, he wouldn't have been too surprised if she hadn't been following him anymore. It might have been something to do with alternate universes and stuff, but again, he didn't know any of that.

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Knot eyed the bushes suspiciously. "This doesn't look like a pineapple bush," he muttered to himself.

[SaveAWolfxSaveALife]

Maline swerved over to Esrever's side, glancing over his shoulder. Two wolves stood in front of them, both with Pack scent. But something made them different. "I don't think they come from the camp we just left. They smell different." She observed. Maline did notice this, though. One of the wolves, a long furred off white wolf, was incredibly handsome. He looked almost like a God, standing so tall with the wind brushing his fur and his thick muscles throbbing under his skin. She wondered if Esrever saw the look in her eyes as she drooled over Gades good looks.

"Or maybe, if there is a Yozoran neophyte missing, that there is another search party. But yes. Let's follow it and see where it goes." Gade quickly craned his head to the rustling bushes next to them. Knot was muttering something to himself, and the scent of wolves hit him like a fire-cracker. There was a female and a male, and they both had a slight tang of Yozoran scent to them. Were these the wolves that had left the Yozoran scent? It wasn't likely, he knew, because the scent on them was too weak to mean they were members of the Yozoran Pack. They probably walked through it. Then who were these wolves that were not visible yet? Were they loners? There was only one way to find out.
"Alright, come out. I know you're in there. I can smell you."

(Not a pineapple? That's too bad. I would love a pineapple right now.)

[Njack]

Knot nodded, not having much to say. He watched the bushes carefully to see what would come out.

Or not.
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"Yeah, they smell different." Esrever glanced over at Maline, raising his eyebrows somewhat at the look on her face. He didn't say anything about it, though.

Instead, he just grunted at Gade's command. "I can smell you too. What about it?"

...hsub eht fo edis siht fo tuo emoc tsuj dluoc yeht ,su ees ot tnaw yeht fi ,naem I

(Yay, pineapples.)

[SaveAWolfxSaveALife]

Gade snarled at Esrever's smart alec remark. He may be patient, but today he felt overly protective, probably because he was getting ready all night to gaurd Featherswift, and turns out he can't even use it. So he was going to throw it out on some other random wolf, I guess.
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Maline smirked at Gade's behavior. She wondered if they would fight. She probably thought that that would be really attractive. =) Maline looked away from the handsome wolf, trying not to throw herself in front of him and start introducing herself, because her gawking really wasn't normal behavior for her. But, it got a hold of her, and Maline jumped right out of the bush and in front of Gade. ignoring the snort of disapproval she thought she heard. Slightly embarrassed, but not really caring, she started to speak. "Hi! I'm Maline! We were just walking through and saw you guys. Maybe you'd want to travel with us!" She said more to Gade than to Knot.
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Gade jumped back in surprise as the she-wolf intruded his, um, bubble. He wasn't expected either of them to be so, well, enthusiastic. Backing up slowly, he said "Um, no thanks...We're kind of busy." Gade threw a startled but anxious glance at Knot.

[Njack]

(Haha. XD Well, if you wanna get into a fight...)

Esrever landed next to Maline, but a little behind her. "Sure, whatever." He wasn't really talking to anyone in particular. Actually, this particular comment didn't even make sense in context.

The bush was sucked up by a quantum mechanic and disappeared, due to exhausting its potential as a plot point, maybe. Or maybe Esrever just couldn't see it anymore.
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Knot blinked at Maline. "What is this wolf talking about? Can't she smell the pack scent on us?" he muttered to himself, using the best stage techniques ever.

He thought for a moment as Gade glanced at him, then spoke up to Maline, though she wasn't really directing the question at him. "Well, not at the moment, but I'm wondering, seen any... eh... suspicious wolves around? We're kinda looking for some."
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?eh dah rO .t'ndah erus reversE

[SaveAWolfxSaveALife]

(Gee, Njack. I love role playing with you cuz you just crack me up xD)

Maline threw her eyes at Knot, an evil and hateful look, and threw poison darts at him threw her pupils. Not real darts of course, just the glare of hate. "I know I haven't seen anything." Noticing Gade's awkward glance she took a step back, a little embarrassed, and took her place next to Esrever's side. Maybe she could make Gade jealous.... No. That wouldn't work.
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Gade leaned to the side slightly and sent a telepathic message to Knot. "I think we should hang around with them. Ya know, see what they know. The dumb fae obviously doesn't know a thing, but it looks like the male knows more than he is telling us." After a few seconds Knot didn't change his expression, and Gade guessed there was a mental block keeping the message away from him, so he muttered it in Knot's ear instead.

[Sivoncé™]

(Wow, I have missed a lot, haven't I? I love this thread xD )

Would've been a dazzling femme, this one winding through the tall seas of grasses, would've been....had she not been wreathed in spiderwebs of blood and gore. She loped along like a vulture, hunched, eyes shadowed, glinting mercilessly ahead of her. And rightly so.
Upon entering her third life, Sylvana had witnessed the death -- the final death -- of her only child. Her beloved daughter. The one she had died giving life to. The she-wolf by the name of Saskia, fierce and brave Yozoran. She wouldn't be gifted a fresh start from the heart fires of Hellfire. No, not with a heart like hers -- too defiant, too entangled with the destinies of the packs. She would watch overhead from the celestial splendors of the Twilight Realm. And Sylvana was left alone to grieve.
How can I crawl back to them? Even now, my paws are taking me there, when it was they who murdered my only pup? How were they to know she was mine, I suppose...how was I to speak for her when I wasn't even there? Where is Zeffen? Why has this been done to us...where is Damien now? What if I made a mistake? I need to speak with Damien again before I go back to Blood Mist...
The troubled female paced in circles through the valley, unaware she was surrounded by patrols of the Sheeran wolves.

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Luma slunk along through the tall grasses, senses alert and darting over every inch of the terra. A myriad of scents rose to meet her erect nose -- scents of loners, though they were off towards Gade and Knot -- and -- her heartbeat quickened -- the ashy aroma of the wolves that seemed to be birthed of Hellfire. She looked around for Dallas. "Do you smell that?" I hope we haven't walked into an ambush...

[Njack]

"I feel a great disturbance in the force..." Knot muttered. "Almost as if... Gade was trying to send me a telepathic message. Well, that can't be it."

Then he heard whispering in his ear. "Alright. Don't forget about the Yozoran scent, though, if you want to check on it later," he muttered back to Gade.

"Okay, we've changed our minds," he announced out loud. "We'll join you. Where are we planning to go?"

"Eh, I hope this is what Gade meant," Knot muttered to himself.
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Esrever groaned inwardly. .kcap yeldem fo tros emos otni gninrut er'ew ,taerG

.snisiar ,mmM ...stun dna snisiaR .xim liart htiw seno eht fo troS

[featherswift]

((Gah! Rabid you need to please rp Coop and Dallas))

[SaveAWolfxSaveALife]

Gade wanted to slap himself in the face. Muttering to himself so no one could hear he said "That is so not what I meant." Maybe they could make use of it though. He whispered to Knot again "Um, we'll see what we can do with this. I didn't really want to say the words 'join' because--"
"YAY!!"
Maline jumped a little with childish joy. Quickly she fell back down though, on her feet, embarrassed. She could almost feel Esrever's death stare right now. "Um, we don't really know where we're going." Maline slid to a spot next to Gade, still talking and unaware, while he rolled his eyes and glared at Knot. At first she thought she heard him mutter something that sounded like "Thanks, Knot." Ignoring this sound, she explained "You see, I came wandering, and I met Esrever, then he decided that we should go traveling. I insisted we stay in the lonerlands, even though Esrever was foolishly walking around the Yozoran camp. But he begged me to go with him, so I did, and here we are." Obviously lying, Maline shot a pleading glance at Esrever, begging him to keep the story that way.

[Sivoncé™]

(( Wolfie's on vacation in Mexico ))

[SaveAWolfxSaveALife]

(Hmmm. So maybe I should take that off. )

[Njack]

"...I see what you meant," Knot whispered back to Gade, just before Maline slid into a spot right next to Gade.

To Maline, he said, "Um... We'll have to head back to the packs after a while, you know. Just trying not to get your hopes up, because we aren't joining forever or something." He blinked.

"And Esrever, is that the other wolf's name? Funky... Almost sounds like it could be something backwards... No, that can't be possible," Knot muttered to himself.

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Esrever, in fact, was not death staring. All he had been doing the last few minutes was rolling his eyes.

Nevertheless, he did catch Maline's pleading glance, so he said nothing. ...he tub ,enecs taht enigami etiuq t'nac I