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The Smell of Wolves

Member since 2003 · Posted 5 Aug 2003 · 2 comments

I was raised by women; so like any pure bred wolf I know the sweetness of blood. I've learned to roll on my back while offering my soft stomach when rank is pulled around me. These subtleties within a pack control my fangs of destruction. I've pointed towards the moon in brief moments of energy, but find my quickness of force shadowed by a separate nature. It is in these darkened states that my desperation is consumed by a limitation in domestic pride. Yet I wouldn't trade this status for my station offers avenues far more tangible then position and I find that learning to bend, and yield, in just the right way, is the true mastery of strength.

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[n/a] -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 5-Aug-03/3:25 PM Reply
No shit dude. I was raised by prawnes actually. Did you know the one thing a prawne fears most is an EXOSKELLINGTON?
[n/a] rusty › -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 7-Aug-03/2:40 PM Reply
prawnes yes, cause I'm sure it wasn't poets