Smiling, the nantlil watches her children explore and roughhouse near their main den and to see one of her children act uncertain as she approaches her brother triggered her to think of her close and dear friend, Abel and his herd of whools. Raising her head, Millennium realized that Abel never gotten to meet her other half along with her four bundles of joys that is running around in front of her gentle ice blue eyes and she is determined to change that by heading out to find Abel and whools and bring them back to introduce them to her family.
When she approached her beloved with her desire to head out to find Abel again, she was met with a brief resistance from him but with her persistence, they came to a somewhat perfect compromise. The nantill will head out ahead and the family will follow along behind without being seen when they approach the area that she first met her first friend. The small family set off for the plains, away from the jungle and during the journey, the parents played with their little ones and stopped for rest when all of their little ones are exhausted, otherwise cubs would find themselves dangling in midair with their scruffs held gently by parents.
Three sun cycles have passed since Millennium and her family have left on this journey so the nantill could reunite with her close one again along with introducing him to her family so they all could be one huge family. Savitar had to endure listening to his mate talking excitedly about this male that he haven't met whenever his mate isn't carrying one of the cubs. The silvery female recognizes that the forest they were walking through are thinning out and she squeals with joy, looking up at her mate with excitement before she took off running toward the plains with her golden daughter running behind her. Bursting out of the forest, Millennium takes in a deep breath and starts trotting toward the hill where they met but her certain and excited steps starts to falter as she noticed that the whool herd isn't massive as before.. in fact.. it was cut down to nearly quarter of its original size.
What is going on? Where is Abel? Why is the whool herd so small now The nantill thought to herself in confusion as she squints her eyes, walking around in the general direction trying to find Abel but her dear friend wasn't nowhere to be found. The whools are acting extremely weird as they are huddled around something and making something that sounds like.... weeping. Millennium froze as she could sense the residue of violence and evilness near the general proximity of small group of whools and her eyes went wide when she realized that something bad have happened here but.. where's Abel? As she draws closer to the huddled group of whools, the smell of blood assaulted her nose causing her to dance backward in alarmed manner because only time she smells blood is when she is hunting or her mate is hunting but this... reeks of something so vile. A brush of soft fur between her legs signaled that her golden daughter is being stubborn and wanting to be with her. "Go back to papa, dear one...Its not safe here." She forces her vines to stay gentle and easy-flowing despite the panic that is rising up inside her chest. At this point, the nantill is very certain that something violent have happened and someone or something have lost their life.
One minute, she was playing with her siblings, dodging through the vines while playing the game called 'Hunter and Hunted" and she was the hunter at the moment then next moment, she finds herself trekking across the jungle and out of the jungle for the very first time. When she's not being carried by either of her parents or snoozing, she is always running off up ahead with her siblings eager to explore everything. The little golden nantill doesn't fully understand why her mama is brimming with excitement but she does understand that its infectious and that they are on an adventure!
When they reached to the 'mouth' of the forest that leads to the plains, she felt a paw pressing down gently against her tail to indicate that she and the cubs have to stay behind while her mother gets to go up ahead. Savilla looks up at her papa and mewed in dismay while she watches her mother scout up ahead but when she felt the paw leaving her tail, she was running toward her mother with a huge grin on her face. As she comes closer to her mother, she could sense that something is right because her mother is unusually tense and she rubs against her mother's front legs, looking up at her with a confused look in her light indigo eyes. The sensations of the place they are standing near is scaring Savilla because she doesn't fully understand death, violence and whatnot. Only death she sees is the prey that her parents brings home for them to eat.
Savilla taps her mother's paw and mews because she haven't mastered the vines so she uses the sign language to communicate with her. Her ears flattens against her head as she leans against her mother's leg for comfort, not liking the sound of weeping and the weird fluffy things all hunkered together. Her eyes follows her mother's vines when it floats up into the air and wove into the words telling her to go back to papa, a stubborn look appears in her eyes but when her eyes met with her mother's steely eyes, she squeaks little bit. Lowering her body to the ground, Savilla scuttled back to her siblings and papa with her tail being all poofed out because she's still spooked by the place and she doesn't understand why.
Ice blue eyes of the mother watches her spooked daughter scuttle back to her family, Millennium sighs softly as she have to fight the urge to go over there to soothe her daughter because she needs to find where Abel is and figure out what happened here. She moves toward the huddled weeping whools warily as she is not sure why they are crying but she is going to find out very shortly enough and she gently nudges few of whools to side but was met with resistance because they seemed didn't want to leave or is protecting something in middle. The sight of huge lump of flesh lays in middle of the huddle caused the nantill to reel back as she trips over her hind legs, crashing into the ground while her startled eyes couldn't leave the sight of flesh. Her eyes flickers around as her mind starts filling up with the questions and her blue eyes connects with lifeless eyes that reminds her eerily like Abel's eyes. ~ Its Abel ~ The wind seems to whisper to her as it blows over her body and the nantill shakes her head in sheer denial.
Her muzzle opens and closes, mouthing the word "no no no no no" and it seems to become an chant as her eyes flickers from eyes to lumpy meat to whools that is now clustered around her weeping. The world went really still as everything else disappeared except for those eyes and lumpy meat before it shatters down in million tiny shards like brittle ice. "Its Abel.." Her mind numbly says as her eyes moves erratically while her vision began to blur, and tears starts to track down her cheeks while she digs her claws into the ground, her body trembling violently. Feeling like her heart and soul is being shredded into shreds with blunt claws, Millennium shakes her head as she struggles to breath and to see through thick sheen of tears.
How did this happen?
Who would want to harm sweet Abel?
The vines twitches and dances in the air above her, not forming into the words but it is a clear sign that she's losing control of herself. Her body shook violently as she jerked her head back, screamed a long shriek of feral agony, sending the birds scattering into the skies and the whools flinching away from her. Curling up against the meaty lump that used to be Abel, Millennium closes her eyes and wept for her friend's life being suddenly cut short, wept for missed opportunities between those two and opportunities that have been cruelly stolen from Abel like finding his other half, experiencing the joy of having a family...
The whools picked up their weeping once again as they clustered around the weeping nantill and the meaty lump that used to be their beloved Shepard.
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