I know what you're all thinking, "OMGWTFBBQ! SILVER FINALLY WROTE! WOW! ITS A MIRACLE!" But, I've been reading a lot lately, and I have nothing really to do, so I'm figuring that it's my obligation to write some time or another, so yeah...
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Anyways, I should probably get on with the story. Just a quick apology before I write... SORRY IT TOOK ME SO LONG! I WAS BUSY WITH MY LIFE... and stuff...!!!!!
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Chapter 3: Explanations and Questions
Silver, "What's Paradise?"
They all looked at her as if she was an alien.
"YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT PARADISE IS?!" Toboe yelled, his eyes wide in shock.
Kiba calmly put his hand on the young wolf's human shoulder. "Sit down, Toboe. And don't yell."
"Sorry Kiba..."
The white wolf's control over his pack still had Silver amazed.
Tsume looked at her in a look of bored curiosity, "How can you not know about Paradise? I lived in a city for most of my life too, Hell, Hige and Toboe were born and raised in cities, but we all know what Paradise is. Didn't your pack ever tell you stories?"
Silver looked him straight in the eye, and hers flashed. "I never knew my pack."
Claire awoke to Toboe yelling.
"YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT PARADISE IS?" Why were his eyes so wide? Where was Silver? What was wrong? She started to panic until she realized that Silver sat on the floor in front of the bed with her back to her, and all the others simply stared at her.
Tsume started talking, but Claire didn't pay any attention, she was trying to get comfortable so that she could go back to sleep. Since nothing was wrong, there was no reason to be awake. Life on the street taught her early on that curiosity is a dangerous feeling. Never fall for curiosity. You can get killed. You'll learn what you need to learn when the time comes.
Rolling over, the last words she heard before falling asleep were Silver saying, "I never knew my parents."
Tsume's eyes seemed to be the only ones that didn't soften as the silver wolf told them that. 'You can't miss what you never knew...' he thought solemly, though no sadness that had been in his thoughts was carried over to his expression or his tone. "And you never got a new one?"
He was answered with a scoff, which he really had expected. "Did you?" she shot back. "Toboe told me how you were living with humans..." she spat the last word with such venom in her voice, the youngest of the male wolves whimpered quietly and scooted back quite a bit, to which he recieved a curious glance from the silver shewolf, but nothing more. She didn't care. She hated humans... they'd done all but ruin her life, make it a misery to live. The only reason she didn't just lay down in an alley somewhere and die was because of Claire. That was it. The pup sleeping soundly behind her was her only reason for life.
"Humans aren't all that bad..." Toboe murmered, remembering his granny and how she'd loved him and taken care of him, treating him like he was her child and spending what little money she had to keep him happy. He missed her greatly...
Once again, a scoff came from Silver, and she glared out the bars of the cell they shared. "Oh really? Then why the hell are we in this shit-hole, huh!?" she suddenly snapped viciously, seeming nothing of how she had been before. Sure, she had never been timid, but they were all shocked when she lashed out at poor Toboe like that. Shooting her a hurt look, the pup moved to a far corner of the cell and sulked, but failed in his attempt to guilt-trip Silver into apologizing. She saw no need to apologize, so she wasn't going to because she hurt some pup's feelings. They were overly sensitive anyways.
Ignoring the pouty youngster, she returned her gaze to Kiba, then slid her two-toned eyes over to Tsume breifly to engage in another silent staring contest. Her attention found its way back to Kiba, however, when he spoke again.
"Paradise... is where we're going..." he said softly, beginning an explanation of Paradise, which, surprisingly enough, Silver paid close attention to.
Not much, I know. But deal! Writer's block's a bitch. As are distractions, which often seem to come calling... OOooooOOOooooOOOooooohh... YAOI:squees and bounces away:
Muse:sigh: See what she means...?