Summer
7.25 am - The Siberian Taiga
The sun had risen early this morning, its glow projected over the large territories that filled the vast new world of the Russian landscape. A light breeze allowed itself to flow through the trees, rustling leaves and carrying the many songs of varying birds throughout the forestry. The green grass thick and lush coated almost every inch of the earths surface and flowers bloomed in large colonies in the open plains of fields while smaller groupings scattered through the forests floor.
Small prey such as rabbits and squirrels, along with many others, scurried about as they began foraging their day away, ears always alerted, movements swift and precise as they were always prepared for predators on approach. The large game ranging from deer to boar, even loose sheep or cattle from the old world, grazed lightly in open fields, shifty natures keeping them in groups as they maintained high alerts only to scatter at the first sign of danger.
The Siberian Taiga was slowly coming alive with all its inhabitants as they moved around each other, some without any knowledge of those nearby. Its vast forestry allowing coverage away from the slowly rising summers sun.
All the while, the wolves of the Taiga still rested in silence.
Aiyana
The young she-wolf slowly began to awaken as the forest came alive around her, the song of the birds causing her ears to twitch this way and that, the smell of prey cast upon the wind driving velveteen nasal passages to push and pull dividing all separate trails. Eyes of faint golden hues fluttered open as the light of the sun struck her face while the trees that surrounded the open field of the Rendezvous site poured a shadow of grey upon the areas untouched by the bright morning light.
Aiyana slowly pulled her head up, ensuring she didn't wake the he-wolf Tahoma in which she'd been curled beside. Slender hind legs sprawled off to her left, as her shoulders propped her up. Eyes now partially closed and maw parting as a slither of pink curled within its gape. Glancing about the large field around her she'd unhurriedly spring to all four paws, leaving Tahoma in place. Willowy legs shifting as fore-paws shuffled and extended forwards, chest dipping almost low enough to touch the dusty patch below and rump remained raised with tail pointing skywards.
As she eventually straightened up, her pelt would shudder and her head would tilt one way before the other vigorously as she shook off the faint brown particles clinging to her vibrant pelt of cream mixed auburn. She'd not cause a stir as she looked towards the slumbering pile of Okami and Suki, then towards Artorias and finally Tahoma. Pacing up a small mound of shifted soil, her hind legs would tuck under her rump as she sat tall on the raised earth, alerted yet relaxed as she watched her surroundings not yet ready to scout the territory as she did most days.
Okami
Barely shifted in his sleep as his ears faintly twitched forwards and backwards, tail curled around his side as his limbs tucked closely to his multi-toned bodice. The morning light not yet bothering him as he puffed a light yip and allowed legs to kick ever so slightly as he dreamed of who knows what. He managed not to move much within his deep thought as a little bundle of black melded timber fur pressed within his chest, the sound of her heartbeat ringing in his ears as he rested his own head just over her back.
Within the moments of his sister awakening he'd barely quivered whilst his eyes opened slightly, the sight of the tall female in front of him unfaltering his demeanor as he remained upon his side. The silence of the morning only tainted by the melody of the local choir and the proud stature of his sister spawning a grin upon his lips. Muzzle wiggled about, this way and that, as he'd gently shift the young pup upon him to a position in which allowed him to prop himself up on his elbows in a side-lay.
Tanned jowls parting as his yellowed k-9's would be bared, a snake of rosy flesh curl upwards whilst a docile whine emerging his vocals as he allowed the drowsiness of the nights rest to leave him. His hues a darker tone to those of his sisters, almost a chocolate tinge as he briefly glimpsed the terrain of the Rendezvous site and its few inhabitants still slumbering within its span.
"What a lovely morning," he'd allow the gentle, hushed tones to pass through his mind, "Absolutely beautiful."
Suki
The young canid stirred deeply in her sleep, darkened pelt of cream through timber mixed ebony pelt shuddering with the twitches and jolts of limbs in her deep hallucination, slender tail wiggling behind her as she yelped and whimpered visibly looking to be chasing or playing with something in her head. The small figure hardly roused by the movement of Okami nudging her into the small gap between his forelimbs, she'd simply curl up to fit within its spacing whilst maw parted to mouth at the air with the accompanying high-pitched groans. It was obvious Suki in for slumbering further into the mornings reaches.
