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    (AW) cowardice
    month 1 (spring), raining
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    It was about to be 2 years, 2 long years Dario felt like he didn't deserve. Sometimes he wished he'd starved as a boy, or been more like his mother and succumbed to his doom with some dignity. It was better than... What? Involuntary solitude? A persistent self loathing? Surviving wasn't living... And yet, Dario was too cowardly to accept death.

    Is that what kept him alive? Cowardice? The avoidance of doom to survive another day? Or was it just the hope that soon he would have a reason to live other than... Being alive?

    There was nothing in this cold fucking tundra that ever convinced him that life was worth living, it was just big, hardheaded animals that had more of a will to survive than him, a winter that seemed far too long, a spring that was obnoxiously cold, and an echo every time he howled that accompanied a chilling silence. There was nothing here for him, but where else did he have to go?

    In this place where the rain felt like ice on the thick skin of his back and the caribou filled the valley in droves to give birth, Dario was home, whether he liked it or not. The spotted man stopped, and licked the rain off his whiskers, scouring the herded caribou with a hunter's eye - it was near impossible for a dog of his size to take down a fully grown caribou, especially in this weather, but the banquet he was rewarded for his success was always worth the effort. So he'd heard, he wouldn't know. He wasn't exactly a risk taker, more of an opportunist.

    The rain masked most smells, but he knew this valley was being used as a massive grassy nursery by the caribou, the cows with their rotund bellies beginning to scratch and nest in preparation for what would soon be an influx of new calves. Easy meals, but the process would be made harder with the threat of getting trampled by an angry mother.

    Dario's breath came out in vapors as he visually tried to formulate a plan in his mind, before licking away the rainwater misting his nose and blinking in disinterest. Rabbits are safer. He decided with an annoyed grunt, trudging through the rain-soaked sod to look for a hare to chase.
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    (AW) cowardice - by Dario - 03-11-2021, 02:30 AM
    RE: (AW) cowardice - by Symphony - 03-12-2021, 11:04 PM
    RE: (AW) cowardice - by Dario - 03-12-2021, 11:31 PM
    RE: (AW) cowardice - by Symphony - 03-12-2021, 11:59 PM
    RE: (AW) cowardice - by Dario - 03-13-2021, 02:04 AM
    RE: (AW) cowardice - by Symphony - 03-13-2021, 02:25 AM
    RE: (AW) cowardice - by Dario - 03-14-2021, 03:20 AM
    RE: (AW) cowardice - by Symphony - 03-17-2021, 02:42 AM
    RE: (AW) cowardice - by Dario - 03-17-2021, 06:06 PM
    RE: (AW) cowardice - by Symphony - 03-17-2021, 06:25 PM
    RE: (AW) cowardice - by Dario - 03-17-2021, 08:22 PM
    RE: (AW) cowardice - by Symphony - 03-17-2021, 08:27 PM
    RE: (AW) cowardice - by Dario - 03-17-2021, 08:35 PM
    RE: (AW) cowardice - by Symphony - 03-17-2021, 08:42 PM
    RE: (AW) cowardice - by Dario - 03-19-2021, 03:59 AM
    RE: (AW) cowardice - by Symphony - 03-29-2021, 02:58 PM
    RE: (AW) cowardice - by Dario - 03-30-2021, 06:03 PM
    RE: (AW) cowardice - by Symphony - 04-01-2021, 05:15 PM
    RE: (AW) cowardice - by Dario - 04-05-2021, 02:58 PM
    RE: (AW) cowardice - by wiskee - 08-19-2022, 08:13 AM
    RE: (AW) cowardice - by wiskee - 09-03-2022, 08:10 AM
    RE: (AW) cowardice - by wiskee - 11-03-2022, 06:03 PM
    RE: (AW) cowardice - by wiskee - 12-02-2022, 12:06 PM
    RE: (AW) cowardice - by wiskee - 02-11-2023, 09:14 AM
    RE: (AW) cowardice - by wiskee - 04-11-2023, 10:46 AM
    RE: (AW) cowardice - by wiskee - 06-12-2023, 12:10 PM
    RE: (AW) cowardice - by wiskee - 07-25-2023, 04:52 AM
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