((lol I'm being impatient as well xD Arrow is so cute 8D And It's funny 'cause Ace is the name of one of my characters (who's also a wolf and a waja I just remembered xD) and I also have a creature called a Nightling - though my Nightlings are demons and they're pretty stupid, not as stupid as Inklings, but yeah xD))
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Clair lifted her head at the sound of the call but shrugged it off as if it were nothing. Her mother, on the other hand, was in a state of panic. She trotted about, this way and that, before finally coming to stand by her daughter, whom stared at her in confusion.
"Are we going to hunt or not?""Caera, we must move. Quickly." she said, eyes not meeting Clair's. Instead, she glanced around at the bushes and trees, twitching every time something moved - like a leaf in the wind. Clair let out a breath and shook her head. What was suddenly up with her mother?
"Yeah, moving quickly. You have to do that to hunt." she paused, head tilting as she thought,
"Unless you're stalking, since you're pretty much still at that point-""Come, quick!" her impatient snarl cut Clair off and made her fall silent. Obediently, she followed her mother as she took off through the forest. Their paws barely touched the ground and the only noise they made was the heavy breathing as they ran and the twigs they snapped as they moved. Clair's breath was coming out in short puffs in the cold air of the night, her legs falling into a rhythm. And then her mother stopped abruptly, making Clair hit the breaks. She pulled sideways so as not to hit her mother, but instead careened into the bushes with a loud crash.
"Shh!" her mother snarled. Clair pulled her head up and began noisily untangling herself from the clingy leaves and vines.
"You shush me now? You're not worried about me? Wow, thanks a lot mum." Clair said as she managed to pull herself out. Her mother took a step back, getting in front of her daughter. Her tail flicked once and Clair fell absolutely silent. That signal, with the tail, was something her mother only used in serious situations.
Really serious situations. Seconds later, a tiny little white bird-like creature dropped from seemingly no where, landing neatly in front of the two wolves. The little thing was covered in blood and wild eyed, making Clair's heart begin to beat in panic.
"It's Ace! The Banes! He's dying... You have to follow me!" the thing cried. Alida watched the bird for a moment before turning her head slightly in her daughter's direction.
"It's a Nightling. I'm not sure I trust it." she whispered as if the creature could hear her. It gestured with it's tail desperately, looking straight at Clair. Her eyes met the Nightling's for a moment and somehow she just knew this thing was not scheming or thinking of doing something bad. A moment later, Clair was dashing off in hot pursuit of the creature as it whizzed through the trees. Her mother's calls echoed behind her, but she ignored them. She'd find her daughter soon enough.
That's when she came across the bloody mess that was formerly an Aerial.
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(((Haha, sorry for the long post xD Kuro will catch up, she's good at that. I have a habit of writing randomly long posts and then suddenly they get really short, and then long again, etc. So yeah, Clair's also being hunted I think by these banes but she doesn't know it, I think if that's okay with you. That's why her mother just kinda took off like that after hearing the howl xD))