Been a bit busy. Thanks t' th' love tha' bothered with remindin' me 'bout th' pet name.
The tree branches slowly closed in around Vivian and Willem until they where completely engulfed in the darkness. There was a small clearing a bit further in and there it was that they stopped and began stripping. Vivian didn't feel the least bit bothered by the thought that she was getting naked with someone whom she had known for years and that wasn't her mate. Willem on the other hand knew well enough to keep his eyes only where they belonged. Vivian left her clothes in a pile on the floor and glanced up in time to see Willem pick all of his up and look around for a suitable place to prop them.
"Since when do you give a rat's ass where you leave your things?"
"Well, Vive, if you must know, since the washer isn't installed and I didn't feel like wasting quarters at the local laundry mat. Besides this is what I planned to wear for our first day Monday," answered Willem.
Vivian spared a glance down at her own things and found she couldn't care less about them. Shaking her hair, she glanced around and willed on her change. The organic crunches and creaks where echoed by the twin sounds coming from where Willem was standing. When she was done she was left shivering. Vivian allowed herself to plop onto the ground and closed her eyes and laid there for a few moments. Her hearing told her that Willem was panting from his change as well. Her nose told her that some pheasant had recently been standing near to where her head was and something, probably a bigger bird judging by the lack of trace smell, had startled the pheasant and caused it to promptly shit it pants. Her heart pounded in its new body and her fur stirred with the breezes. She heard Willem stand and felt more than heard the displacement in the air in front of her muzzle signifying that he was there and looking down at her.
Snapping her eyes open, she caught Willem by surprise and Willem pounced back a pace and wagged his tail. Vivian sprang up and tore the ground as she propelled herself towards Willem. Willem bounced out of the way and sped after her. Vivian slouched towards the ground and made herself as aerodynamic as possible. She already had an advantage: her build was smaller than Willem's.
Vivian could hear the sound of his pursuit get fainter and fainter as she out distanced him and out maneuvered him. Her blood was coursing in her body and she at once felt the glorious feeling of being alive. There was a slight hindrance in her step and glancing down she noticed that she had forgotten to take off the chakra bracelet and that while her forelimb had become thinner than her human arm; the bracelet had slipped down and was lodged onto the joint that connected to her paw. Her paw was too big for the bracelet to come out.
Ah well, I guess if it really bothers me than I can make my hand human enough to take it off.
Going back to the marathon at hand, Vivian noticed that Willem wined somewhere far behind her but Vivian had told him that he was only welcomed if he could keep up. She could hear water nearby and her smell picked up mud and rotting vegetation. Vivian decided to have some fun and as soon as she turned a corner into a grove of trees, she jumped into a bush and stayed dead still. Counting on the fact that Willem had never had much patients with tracking and that there was mist in the air, she was willing to bet with herself that he would probably run all the way to where the water was and think she wadded her way through it to loose her scent. She slowly willed herself to stop breathing and listened to the sounds of Willem getting closer.
Willem burst into the grove and kept running strait. If she had the lips to do it, Vivian would have sneered. She stayed put until she couldn't hear him and then dashed out in the direction that they had come. The smells of her and Willem where ripe on the air and it would probably take him some time to figure out what had happened. When she neared the clearing, Vivian took a left and went deeper into the bush. The steady click of her nails on rocks told her she was too near the human compounds so she went deeper into the woods. There was a puddle of water on the ground a few feet away from the rain and she went over to it to get a drink. The water reflected the darkness from all around and the mists made the whole place seem vast and quiet. She felt like she was the last living soul in those parts. Vivian watched her dark reflection for a moment and then started to lap up the water. She stopped the minute she got a chill that caused her to look up. Across the puddle in a bush she could see a pair of mirrored eyes. The mist was thick and she wasn't sure of what she saw but in a moment they where gone.
Well she wasn't one to beat around the bush and decided that the possibility of a rabbit snack was too good to pass up. She slowly slinked around the puddle and edged her way towards the bush. She was down wind and at a disadvantage but she was fast and stronger than any predator and she had human logic on her side. She was rapidly approaching the bush, 6 feet….5….4…3…2…and she pounced.
More soon?