Mist of the Marshlands [OPEN!]

[Yuan]

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The Marshlands were cruel and disliked any travellers who happened to visit its swampy areas. His feet left footprints on the muddy road with a disgusting sploth-ing sound. He hardily left any footprints being light and small like a dream personified. Even thou his face was young his hair was light grey like the hair of an old man. The boy looked around him with blue eyes, searching for something, anything, to help him escape his boredom. The trees around him were old and tall and they seemed to send out an aura of pure power, trying to uncertain the travellers walking under their crowns. The trees was the wardens of earth and their powerful senses did not care about who stepped over their roots as long as he or she did not intend to hurt their children. But in this place the malice was stronger then he had felt before. The wardens wanted every human creature to disappear from their forest, the only ones allowed to live here was the children of the earth or the elements. And he was not welcome there.

From his left he heard breathing and the sound of heavy paws. The creature appeared in his view, standing on a hill leaning out over the small animal trail he followed. The wolf growled low and jumped down in front of him.
“My dear” the boy said, relieved that he knew this wolf. “Is there anyone around here? I think I’ve manage to loose my way.” The boy sat down on the trail looking up at the trees crowns, unable to see the sky.
The wolf sighted and lay down before the boy. “Yuan, of course you are lost. This forest does not welcome people like you.” She followed his eyes, smelling the air and then turned back looking at the boy’s face. The she-wolf was surprised to see him smiling.
“No one wants people like me near. They rather cut out the guts then let me pass.” He smiled and turned his eyes back in the sky, hiding behind the wardens. “Don’t worry my dear, sooner or later, someone will pass this way and help us. And the wardens can’t do anything to stop it…”

[Ruka Ukario]

The cry of a large bird echoed through the misty swamp. Ruka looked up as she jumped from tree branch to tree branch, smiling brightly. The blue heron twittered and swooped low. He and Ruka where the only travelers that came through here without any problems. It was only because the wolf girl was able to leap through the trees and not have to worry about sloshing through the mud or getting lost below.

"Rune, what do you see?" she called up to the blue bird. He gave another shrill cry and swooped ahead, twittering wildly. Ruka looked forward curiously. Runa swooped back up and then down again, and she could make out the shape of a person. Ruka shook her head. Another lost traveler...time to show the way out again. She came closer and stopped in a tree above them; the boy and the wolf. "I see more lost wanderers have entered our domain." she said, loud enough for them to hear as Rune squwaked and landed on her shoulder.

[Yuan]

Yuan had found a stick with which he drew circles in the ground in front of him. His beloved lay silent a bit away from him, her head between her pawns, following her master’s movements. The wind that circled around the trees, not much different from the circles the boy was drawing, brought a faint smell of another human creature. Fenris looked at the young man who made no attempt to either move or to have smelled the scent of the other one. A bird’s cry echoed through the wardens branches, making the wolf uneasy on her feet. She stood up and the boy raised his head.

“Sit down again.” The boy said, “There is no idea walking on needles, we just have to wait and see what destiny has to provide.”

From the wardens’ crowns came a voice, the voice was a girl’s and it sounded gentle, yet irritated in some way, at least that was how the she wolf perceived it like. Yuan stood up and looked up at the direction from where he thought the voice came from. The stick in his hand fell to the ground with a silent sound, but the boy did not care. He smiled gently at the girl in the tree and scratched the back of his head looking a little nervous.

“Excuse me for entering your territory, my lady but we are lost travelers just as you have said.” He held out his arms in an excusing gesture, still smiling nervously. “If it’s not too much to ask could you please show us the way out of this forest? The wardens of this place has no gentle feelings towards us.”

[Ruka Ukario]

With a laugh, Ruka stepped away from the branch she stood on. She dropped and grasped the the limb as she fell down wards, swinging herself up and forward to land on a protruding rock that stuck out of the dark ground. She crouched, wolf tail swaying behind her as she grinned. "The wardens are never very friendly." she said, sharp canines glinting as she smirked. "It took me a year to get used to this place. And I can thank Rune for that." she gestured to the blue heron as it fluttered from a low tree branch a few feet away. Her wolf ears pricked forward as she glanced at Fenris, nodding politely and in greeting. "Sure, I'll show you the way. My names Ruka, what's yours?"

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"Ka, don't over do it!!" Rune twittered, fluttering his huge wings in a frustrated way. His master had been running all day and just finished a fight not three hours ago. She should be resting...but alas, her hard-headed ways would not be swayed by him. He gave another squawk and turned to blink at the boy and the grey wolf.