Trudging through blinding white snow, you hear a voice nearly muffled by the snow and turn to it. You can't make anyone out, but you manage to spot blue flames. Wait, what?
Please, follow me. You'll freeze to death out here." She turns around and begins to walk as you struggle to follow her. There are a few evergreens - and a big rock? Where is she taking you?
Oh, I see I have company.
Trudging through blinding white snow, you hear a voice nearly muffled by the snow and turn to it. You can't make anyone out, but you manage to spot blue flames. Wait, what?
Please, follow me. You'll freeze to death out here. She turns around and begins to walk as you struggle to follow her. There are a few evergreens - and a big rock? Where is she taking you?
Are you alright? you look at her and nod.
You try not to make it obvious that you're looking her over, as you haven't exactly laid eyes on her yet. She's snow white, hence the fact you couldn't see her. She has bright blue eyes matching blue flames dripping off of her angelic wings, and a golden hoop in her ear. Does she live here?
But father .. we have to, or we'll die! I've heard outsiders talk about these monsters, they capture y-"
April! No! No more words. Return to bed.
The lupess glared at her defiant father, Kryant, in opposition to his stubborness. "You think you know
everything, don't you? Well you don't! You never have. You've been running this pack on pure luck, for all I
can see! The pack will die because of you!"
As she planned to do if her father did not redeem himself with this last chance she was giving him to reveal
himself as a reasonable man, bold April schemed to run away that night. Not posing a hard task, April found
herself alone for that night.. and many nights after that. Even though it was lonesome, she was happy living
with her own rules.
Unfortunately for April, this was not her sealed fate. In an midday slumber, she found herself woken up
abruplty by a blanket thrown and tightened over her. "We got her!" a voice shouted.
The ride to the facility was bumpy and long. She didn't know where she was going, and for the first time in a
while, she wished for contact towards her old pack. Then again, she thought, I may have outlasted them.
April was thrown into a rather small fenced-in area and a green tag was pierced through her ear. She yelped at
the unsuspected pain. It was hard to stand on her legs after being constricted for so long, and until they
seemed functional again she noticed she was not alone. Gloomy, depressed facades was all she saw. At first
glance, she gave up almost all of her hope herself momentarily. But it was only the first minute of who knew
how long.
Most of the others were silent. She did not recognize any. She sighed and, at the indifference and silence at
the others here towards her, she curled up by a corner and eventually drifted into sleep until the next
morning.
She awoke late the next morning hungry, but after scavenging the small terra for a while, she found her search
unproductive. She sighed.
You slept through breakfast, you know."
April turned instinctively to the source of the words. He was a slender male, about her age, with a dark blue
coat splattered with gold stars.
That figures," April said uneasily.
He remained unresponsive for a moment. "Most who come here aren't as calm as you are when they arrive."
April shrugged. "I guess I kind of felt like I had this coming at some point."
The guy nodded, not quite sure what she meant, but not questioning. "I'm Glory."
April smiled softly. "I'm April."
The new friendship - or acquantaince, whatever - gave April the smallest amount of drive to escape
instinctively. That's just how she is.
Have you tried to escape, ever?"
Glory turned his head to the ground when she asked this. "No," he answered after a while. "Not many stay
long enough to help it..."
Good thing I'm a quick thinker," April said slyly. "Just listen to me."
I think you're crazy," Glory responded. "But I'll help."
***
That night, April and Glory spent much of their time digging and started as soon as the watchmen left for the
night. They worked ferociously, trying not to focus on their weariness. By midnight they had almost given up
hope when a few additional others mustered up the will to help.
The project quickened and in time, and soon, the bottom of the fence was visible. This triggered some
strength that the lupes had thought they were losing, as they were becoming drowsy yet remaining focused
on this. They knew it was too late to start back now, and the clock was ticking. Even worsening the situation,
snowflakes began to drip from the cold sky and float through the chilly, brisk air.
The sky was eventually dabbed with pink that began to trickle through the nighttime's color, and they knew
time was running out. With haste lupes began to squeeze through the small tunnel they had made and did not
hesitate in running as far or fast as they could away.
Soon the pen was near empty, only Glory and April standing there, gazing at each other and knowing that
this was a serious moment. April stepped back, graciously letting Glory leave first. She was following him out
when she realized her wings were posing an obstacle in sliding out, and began to try to shake herself free.
April was moments away from freedome when she felt a tug at her tail. Anger, frustration and agony flashed
in her mind and she tried using it to get away, but it just resulted in more pain. She whimpered a bit, and as
she was about to let her hold of the terra go and surrender, something strange happened.
Her wings began to spark, and then they lit on a blue fire. It was strange; April felt no burning sensation, but
the fire clung onto her wings and began to melt the steel bars away, and she felt the grip on her tail loosen.
April took this moment to dig her claws back into the ground and launched herself away.
April ran as far as she could until she found herself breathless. She stopped and, catching her breath, glanced at her wings. How did this happen? It saved her life.
She looked around her, shaking off a thin layer of snow that had accumulated over here while she was standing. Suddenly, a rustle from plants and trees near her set her alarm, when the snow faerie walked out and stood before April.
You... you saved me," April said, saying it more like a question than a statement.
I did," Taelia answered. Then, she reached her hand out delicately and unsnapped the green tag from April's ear. She then replaced it with a golden hoop earring instead, smiling softly. "Take this," the snow faerie said, and after briefly resting her hand on April's cheek, she vanished with the drifting snow.
April wandered aimlessly for a while until she ran into the familiar face of Glory. The two remained each other's friendly companion for a while until they realized that they found something special in each other. Glory spent a long time with her and gave her many irreplacable thing: her first love, her first heartbreak, and a son.
Unfortunately, Glory left the world while him and April too were very young by drowning in a lake. Devastated, April mourned his death for a long time while single-handedly raising their son. She also developed a new fear of swimming.
Now April is living her life. She travels wherever her heart desires. When she has had enough of one place, she moves. She also makes many friends while she travels. She also ran into a lupe name Crimson and they've grown close enough to call eachother brother and sister. They'll always be on the lookout for eachother.
Only one time can April say she was in true love, and that was with Glory. In fact, sometimes she wonders if she'll ever truly get over his death for sometimes it dawns on her that she may just be used to the pain now.
Once, April met a fine lupe name Pleors. He was taken by her and April was flattered by the genuine kindness he displayed towards her. Unfortunately, it did not last long for them. Pleors was too taken with April and she could not return the feelings at the same extent. Not ready and too guilty to settle for a one-way commitment, April ended the relationship and asked to remain friends with Pleors, but she never saw him again.
After Pleors, April never had a steady flame. They all were dim or died out quickly. Perhaps one day April will find a steady fire, but until then, she has found herself at other concerns.
April doesn't have much family, so she hopes to keep the little that she has close to her.
Crimson and April met long ago, when April was an adolescent and Crimson not much younger. The two were never interested in each other for much more than the mentoring they found in one another. They don't see each other much, but they will always themselves family.
April doesn't have any friends right now. u_u
