Shades of Grey « Thread Started on Jun 3, 2006, 4:44pm »
Laying still in the soft white snow, she knew she could easily be seen by any watchful eyes that came near. Not like she cared. She was too hungry to move and too weak to hunt. The trip from the human city had taken its toll, and since she had finished whatever food scraps she had brought a few days ago and hadn't any success in finding some prey, Nato was too weak to try right now. Maybe later, when it was darker and she couldn't easily be found. At least when it was night she was able to hunt during the winter, but it also meant less hours of sleep and less travelling. Wherever her instincts were dragging her to, she hoped it was someplace good. Like with some food...
Eyelids opened slightly, showing her golden eyes to her surroundings. Night must have come quickly or she had dozed off, whatever the reason, it was dark and she could try her luck at hunting again.
Slipping her paws into the snow as quietly as she could, Nato made her way to an unknown scent. Pidgeons? No, they were closer to the city. Rabbits? Not really... So what was this weird scent?
You're silver grin... still sticking in... You have soul machine...
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Re: Shades of Grey « Reply #1 on Jun 3, 2006, 8:20pm »
Snow, what an interesting substance. It wasn't a solid really yet it was anything but a gas or liquid until it landed upon your hand, head or fur, depending on who or what you were. It had its own scent too, despite being water in a different phase. Water smelled like water, ice smelled like ice and snow smelled like snow. They were all the same in escence, and yet each smelled differently than the last. All were simply water, the same hydrogen and the same oxygen but they each seemed different. They felt different, they smelled different, they looked different... so strange, so mindbogglingly weird, yet so oddly familiar...
Sitting casually upon a snow covered rock, what appeared to be a very tall young man ran his fingers across the layer of cold material that now soaked through his black pants, his gaze watching the trails made in the process. So fascinating, how bonds and temperatures could do so much. They did everything from make the oxygen he breathed the way it was to make his head, his hands, his skin, everything around him. They made up everything, average kinetic energy and various types of bonds. So very very strange...
Re: Shades of Grey « Reply #2 on Jun 4, 2006, 3:21pm »
The scent was getting stronger, signalling the nearing of the unknown creature which gave it off. The female's mind swam in a sea of thoughts of what it may be, trying to figure out if it was something she had already met with on her travels, or if it was friendly or not. But somethings could be known by just a scent, especially is she have not encountered it before. Yet, in some small way, it was vaguely familiar and her instincts sought it out.
The darkness and trees offered Nato plenty of shadows to disappear within, which brought her another thought... Why couldn't she get any prey with such conditions favoring her in success? Maybe she had grown too accustomed to snatching meals in the city... That could be it. Ya, that definately was it.
So absorbed in her own mind, she had nearly collided into the young man if she hadn't snapped back into reality. At least that was what he looked like within a glance. She turned and ran off a bit before looking back, another thought crept up from her mind. Humans didn't smell like that, what was he?
You're silver grin... still sticking in... You have soul machine...
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Re: Shades of Grey « Reply #3 on Jun 5, 2006, 4:20pm »
The young human, or at least as he appeared to the untrained eye, was also too absorbed in his own thoughts to really give the female the time of day. Though her scent hung in the dry winter air and he could hear her breathes even before she entered the clearing in which he sat, he paid her no mind at all, still running his hand through the soft material around him. The apendege moved slowly, unwavered even when the wolf nearly collided with him. It was as if he were in a trance, deep within the bowels of another world yet he clearly sat upon the rock in the midst of a snow covered forest.
Tilting his head to one side then the other, he watched his hand move through the soft white powder like an artist studying one of his newest works. Almost dead-looking gaze took in the curves made by the impressions of his fingers, the multiple trails crisscrossing each other in the faded light of the moon. Pausing to sit back, totally oblivious to the other creature's presence, the young man furrowed his brow strangely, as if disturbed by something, something he saw. After a moment, he lifted the silver circle that hung around his neck on a loose wrie string. Holding it up in the light, his gaze darted from the pendant to the rock and back again....
Re: Shades of Grey « Reply #4 on Jun 5, 2006, 6:05pm »
Cocking her head to the side and ears tilted to the sides, she appeared to be figuring something out or trying to make head or tails of what was before her. Tails? Now that she looked more closely, she could see that the human had a tail, but humans didn't have tails, at least not the ones she's seen and the young man smelt of dog mixed in with his own scent. Golden eyes hardened and her pupils narrowed to slits, peering sharply into the phantom disguise. The human took more of a dog-like shape except he was bigger and either raven or midnight black in color. Since he wasn't facing in her direction, Nato could barely make out bright blue eyes, like that of jagged ice. They didn't look too nice if he were to stare hard at someone, kind of creepy, like he could kill with a glance. Could he be...?
"Hey Mr. Big Dog. You're going to freeze if you keep playing in the snow like that. I can see it soaking in your pelt." Nato called out to him.
You're silver grin... still sticking in... You have soul machine...
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Re: Shades of Grey « Reply #5 on Jun 6, 2006, 3:21pm »
Seeming to have never heard the other creature, or even notice her existence for that matter, the wolf continued his strange observations between the snow and the pendant that glistened in the dim light. furrowing his brow deeply, there was quite a bit of silence, despite the female's "greeting" of sorts. The black wolf said nothing, did nothing but stare awkwardly, unblinking, as if in a trance, as if listening to the snow's dirty little secret and refusing to let something else distract him....
"I wonder why it does that..."
Like a hot scalding knife through an ice cream cake, the ebony wolf's deep voice cut the silence in two and the night almost seemed to cry out in agony. Yet, it was not a harsh statement, he said nothing to imply that he was in the mindset of a killer, that his ambitions were nothing more than a quiet night alone. Despite its gentle tone, the calm way it was brought forth, despite its seemingly normal state, the sound seemed deadly, seemed to gleam in the light like the barrel of a gun or a sharpened blade... at least, weaker minds would hear it as such...
Re: Shades of Grey « Reply #6 on Jun 6, 2006, 8:36pm »
Her ears having drifted off to the sides again, the feeling of confusion seeped into her mind once again. What was she? Invisible to the naked eye or what? Maybe she was the little voice inside someone's head that could not be seen. Or the invisible make believe friend most human children resorted to when they had not real ones of their own. Nato had her own imaginary friend once, his name was Sprocket, and he was a big brown dog with deep and dark eyes. Only she could see him, but that was fine with her. Until the day Sprocket ran away and didn't came back.
"Hey! Heeellllllllllllooooooooooooooooooo? Anyone home in there? Wonder what does what?" Nato circled around the large black male, a bit curious at the very least.
You're silver grin... still sticking in... You have soul machine...
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Re: Shades of Grey « Reply #7 on Jun 8, 2006, 6:02am »
Again, without looking up, the wolf seemed to completely miss the female's greeting, his staring upon the rock continuing still. His claws no longer trailed in the surface but now supported his body weight as he leaned in toward the previously made trails, iced gaze inspecting them with scientific scrutiny...
"Why it does that..."
Lifting one compacted ebon paw, he pointed toward the grooves he'd made. To a more oblivious creature, they would look like nothing more than slight indentations in the icy surface of the rock. But the trails crisscrossed each other several times and, like lines on a piece of paper, their crossing and backtracking left the two with an upside-down five-pointed star... A pentagram....
"Any time I do something without paying attention, running my fingers through the snow or putting peanut butter on a sandwich or butter on toast, it always looks like that..."
Re: Shades of Grey « Reply #8 on Jun 8, 2006, 10:06am »
"Maybe you have something with upside-down stars...?" There were times when she could see things others could not and Nato confirmed the meaningless scribbles as an upside-down pentagram. The evil pentagram. Cool!
Eyes still locked on the markings on the rock, she sat down comfortably on her rump and flicked her tail every few seconds. Her mind coming up with so many reasons to leave the black dog here and be on her way. He already seemed to be part of some satanic religious group, and though she herself cared nothing much for religion, she had lived with Christians. And she still needed to hunt for her meal tonight, before she became ill tomorrow. Nevertheless, she couldn't help but stay and figure out what the lone dog will do. Ah, the mysteries...
You're silver grin... still sticking in... You have soul machine...
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Re: Shades of Grey « Reply #9 on Jun 9, 2006, 9:53am »
Narrowing his ice-colored gaze, the brute almost growled at the snow, his expression going from coalm and mundane to almost randomly pissed. Using one compacted black paw, the stupid symbol was erased from existance, gone in a puff of powdery frost and whisped away in the wind. With the pentagram gone, the wolf relaxed again, sitting back into a calm, cool and collected sort of sitting position upon the rock, his head tilted down and his gaze resting on the female for the first time...
"It's all so very strange...."
He began to speak again, thoughtfully and considering...
"I don't have a thing for upside-down stars. Pentagrams are just lines to me.... lines that aparently like me too much..."
Re: Shades of Grey « Reply #10 on Jun 9, 2006, 12:37pm »
"Then find something else to like you more, it can't be too hard. You have lots of dog scents all over you, you must be pretty popular."
Eyes closed and her maw parted to resemble a cheesy looking grin. Wagging her tail a few seconds longer, she stopped and tilted her head curiously. Something was particulary strange about this dog, and it wasn't just his size and scent. It may be something more to him than what meets the eye.
"So mr. Big Black... do you have a name? I'm Nayto, or Nato." The way she said her own name and alias almost sounded the same but she paid no real mind to her own words right now.
You're silver grin... still sticking in... You have soul machine...
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Re: Shades of Grey « Reply #11 on Jun 9, 2006, 12:59pm »
Tilting his head to one side slightly, the wolf furrowed his brow in curiosity. Seems this female has fallen off the current train of thought... or is a little strange. But the wolf didn't bother correcting her, mentioning that his problem was not trying to find something to like but trying to figure out how to get rid of all the pentagrams that show up around him. Instead, he straightened his slowly sulking posture to give this female a more proper greeting.
"Well Nato, you can call me Damien or you may shorten it as you like."
Lifting a paw to the pendant on his neck, the wolf gave the metal a slight flick with one claw. The two harsh surfaces coliding together let forth a series of high-pitched vibrations in the form of a very high-pitched ringing sound as if from a wind chime. The sound rose a bit and fell, drifting off into a gentle silence after only a few moments. For about a minute, one might've thought the black wolf to be totally random and crazy, nothing happening, no noises heard or made. That was, until a whisp of wind circled around the two. not a powerful whisp but enough to blow through the trees loudly. But that too fell into silence after a moment...
Very confusing, yes. But all was cleared up when two dogs, two huge dogs stepped from the shadows as if they'd been there the whole time when they obviously weren't. Black presa canarios...
"And this is Apoc and Beast... Hope you like dogs..."
Re: Shades of Grey « Reply #12 on Jun 9, 2006, 1:52pm »
Nato made an attempt at shrugging her shoulders, or that was what she appeared to be doing. It looked more like she just dislocated them and set them back to their natural angle. White muzzle turned to the two dogs who just appeared out of no where. Still a bit confused on what topic she was at and why they had turned up. Oh well...
"I don't mind dogs. They're everywhere in the cities and even in the wilderness. Quite big aren't they? Damien... nice name. Sounds familiar though..." Didn't she hear that name from her adopted parents? In the bible that they read to her? She shook her head slightly. Those days as a pup under her adopted parents are over, she needed her own life. And that was where her feet took her. Golden hues turned back on Damien.
You're silver grin... still sticking in... You have soul machine...
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Re: Shades of Grey « Reply #13 on Jun 9, 2006, 2:08pm »
Looking down upon all three beings now below him, the black wolf nodded slowly as the female jumped around from subject to subject. He didn't mind, he was smart enough to sort them out individually as she said them. Still, he'd been a little confused at the start...
"Um... Not really...."
Pausing, he glanced to his right, where the male dog beast sat down calmly, his matching icy gaze focused ahead of him blindly.
"I need no body guards. They're more like a fan club or something... Just there for support and not much else."
Shifting his gaze to the other side, the wolf's glance fell upon the female dog Apoc, who's gaze was the same color as well...
Re: Shades of Grey « Reply #14 on Jun 9, 2006, 2:19pm »
"I see... Not very talkative, are they?"
The dark fae pushed herself to stand up, looking closely at the dogs. They were bigger and appeared a bit different from the ones back home. Those were smaller, more fluffy, and barked in high squeeky voices. They were such a pain when they saw her, going in pairs and barking like drunken men. Over and over they would tell her to go away, but when she came closer they fell silent, obviously there was something wrong with their tiny little heads.
Nato turned her gaze from both dogs, then to Damien, and them to the forest. There was a gurgling sound deep in her stomach, telling her to find some food fast. Too late... The sky was already lighting up and she would be seen easily in the snow again. So much for hunting tonight.
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