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[RoD] - Rejected Advances

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Kali had not strayed far, as Tana had hoped, after tracking her for days into the familiar foothills. The wild male who’d pulled Kali away from Tana was on his own when she and Ukilaq caught up to him. But disturbingly she’d soon found another, larger set of tracks following along beside Kali’s. Signs of a large dire male that had been lurking around the camp cropped up more and more and Tana began to suspect that Kali had begun a dalliance with a new, much larger and formidable male. The signs were unnerving - hunting parties disbanded, females stalked, males challenged. All the  talks of recent activity in the Tartok foothills had been disturbing the other tribe tokotas on migration, and the fearsome male dire that seemed to be behind it all. Wild dires were known to live in these parts, Kali’s more familiar tracks mingled with these. 

On the hillcrest several days later she finally spotted the striped visage of the brown female. Her reddish hue was easy to distinguish against the sea of snow, but she waited a moment, to parse out the pale, less-obvious shadow of the silhouette that was Kali’s more recently traveling companion. Uk whimpered as he got wind of the male, his body quivering as if he wished to withdraw. She was used to Uk’s fearful attitude, and softly and quietly dismounted, hoping he wouldn’t bolt if he wasn’t forced to draw in closer. The large white male, Asbjorn. She recognized the figure from the mysterious meetings with the man in black. The tundra dire mount she rode was uneasy the closer they got to finding his missing packmate.

As she approached Tana could see that the male was trying to court Kali, and she, in turn, was trying to push him away. Tana decided against calling for her, but watched as Kali stood firm, as the tundra male took notice of Uk. He reared up his head, and made a move as if he would charge them. The bear-like qualities of this male evident. Uk yelped at the challenge, and found himself struggling to keep his space; Asbjorn seeing Uk as a challenger to the mating rites with the female he was courting.

Kali had none of this, and as the male’s aggression suddenly directed toward her own packmates spurred her protective nature into action, and she stood between the tundra dire male and her companions. He seemed perturbed at his perceivement of Kali’s sudden shift in behavior. He bellowed in defiance, and she returned in fury, her body a shield for Tana and Uk.

Tana watched in a sort of awe as the enormous animals postured. The male was not interested in fighting a potential mate in this way, and ceded to her wishes. She did not stop at that, and Asbjorn found himself being pursued in the way he did not expect by a female dire, her bounding energies directed more unpleasantly toward him as he skirted further and further away from Tana and Uk, before loping between the trees and up the path to the ridge, away from where the tribe and its tokotas were camping during migration.

Kali returned with a certain calm confidence that Tana hadn’t seen before, and she allowed Uk a bit of a break, hopping onto Kali bareback as the tundra male followed close in tow.

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Part 2 of Kali's RoD for decors : A band of wild tokotas are stirring up trouble near a local village. Your tokota must find them and deal with them before any locals or their tokotas are hurt, whether that means fighting them, chasing them off, or simply warning them away.

BONUSES: 
+10 handler = Tanaraq | Medicinewoman
+10 location = Tartok Foothills
+10 500+ word story

Rite 1: [RoD] - At the Precipice
Rite 2: HERE
Rite 3: [RoD] - The Smallest Awoo


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SO MUCH LOVE! and poor Uk....he isnt so much of a fighter ;)