One step, one fall, one falter

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I N Y O

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One day, one night, one moment
my dreams could be tomorrow
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How long had it been now that she had wondered off on her own, in search of her identity and perhaps her adulthood? She was a yearling now and had grown into the basic form of her species, which in itself was awkward and strange. Her limbs were still very lanky in comparison to her lithe physique, and always would be. She was tall and lithe, nimble and quick, lacking any bulk or serious muscle like the inhabitants of this island sported. She knew that she was not born for the fight, but for flight, and she would remember that always. She held a beauty though, all of her own, and was rather attractive for a maned wolf, though others would likely not recognize this fact, for she was not of the grey wolf variety that flourished here. She had been slightly unaware of the fact of her difference for some months, but as she pulled away from the only friends she had, she had discovered, through her curious nature, that they were all alike… and she, well she was different. She was unsure of how to take these facts, and weighed them across her shoulders for now with an open mind. She did not allow the depression that loomed in the future to take hold of her, for now she was merely Inyo, not far from changed from the scrawny pup who had emerged from the surf’s treacherous grasp. Her eyes were still bright; perhaps even more so now that she had survived her first harsh winter. Her mind was aging slowly, conforming to the ways of adulthood. She had time yet though, to grow in the arms of adolescence, for it was not her time yet to know the particulars of adulthood.

Standing quietly along the bank of a very small river which likely had formed due to the melting of the snows in the higher elevations of the land, her eyes roamed longingly. Wondering where Scathe and Minerva had wandered to, and how they had faired the winter’s wrath. Perhaps they had followed the older alabaster brute into the fathoms of the land and were now far, far away from this place. She could not know for sure.






One step, one fall, one falter
East or West, over earth or by ocean
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