Thread: Innocence beneath the moon

Roran chuckled a little as he watched her, smiling a little. i travel far and wide. he admitted. sometimes, other traders will have the animals with them to sell to rich people for pets. some of them die on the way, and i buy them, and sell their meat and pelts as luxury items. rich people are strange that way, they like odd food and strange fur. Roran admitted, shaking his head. do not get the Zebra pelt, it is pretty, but the hide is thin, good only for skirts, and will only last you a year before it rips through. he warned touching the Tiger pelts. the Tiger is best, it has a very strong hide and the fur is good and warm for the coming winter. winter was on it's way, in another month and a half, there would be snow covering everything. in three months, it would often be too cold to even go outside. the Panther pelt is good for summer, the Fur is soft but thin. and is also very strong. you have to cut Panther fur off the skin, you can't pull it off like you can with deer and rabbit. he admitted, smiling a little. i'm afraid i don't live very close by. he admitted shaking his head. but the Traders are here for another day, i can show you a thing or two while i'm here. he promised, ignoring how the old dog she had brought with her was cowering away from him. all dogs where fearful of a Wolf, and Roran wasn't just a wolf, but a very strong Alpha. the Dog was much more loyal than he had expected, clinging to the woman instead of running off to hide under something, but he didn't mind, the dog wouldn't dare bite him. and if she commented on it, he made the excuse of the strange smells of the pelts, even showing her a massive Wolf pelt that looked far too massive to be natural. he told her stories of his travels, and about the time he'd nearly been eaten by a Lion, he was only exaggerating a little, and sent her home with the fancy warm pelts she had chosen, and the livers, and promised if she returned the next day, he would show her some tricks to skinning and hunting. if she returned, he was true to his promise, and showed her how to handle a knife, and showed her several tricks on how to skin a pelt, and cure it without so much damage to the fur or the skin as usually happened when an amateur cured a hide. the following Day however, he, and all the other traders where gone without a trace, same as always. and for two weeks, nothing happened save for another attack. this one survived just long enough to warn about a 'border' he had come across. it had looked like a dug ditch, he had ignored it and as soon as he crossed it, he had been attacked. he had managed to crawl back over to the other side of the ditch and the attacks stopped as soon as he crossed again. then, the man died without giving any more information save for wailing howls of terror about 'the monsters! the monsters!' Roran, waited impatiently for two weeks, fidgety and snarling as he paced his territory relentlessly, attacking any hunter stupid enough to ignore the signs. he wondered if he was going to have to stop being so subtle about it, clearly the ditch, the cleared trees, the animal blood, the piss and scat, and everything else wasn't going to work. he was agitated and annoyed, more and more hunters where coming in, and now they where actively hunting for the 'murderous' Wolves. if the stupid humans would just stay out of where they weren't allowed there wouldn't be a damn problem!... even more... he couldn't get that damn woman out of his head... or out of his nose... it was as if the winds where draggign her scent deep into the forests to torment him... finally he could take it no longer, he headed for the farm where he could always smell her, and watched from the edge of the woods in his massive Wolf form. he was almost as large as a full grown human male in that form, his glowing green eyes watching with fur as yellow as his hair. he flexed his claws into the dirt, feeling the soothing sensation as he studied her from a distance... she was as beautiful as he remembered, that soft silver hair and those gorgeous clear eyes and that scent that could drive anyone mad...