A Journey Across The Flats

Sarah Jones shivered quite violently as she sat up in the saddle upon Hades's great and very broad back. The two of them were both once again in the territory of the Ila Pack (Or 'Companion' Pack as it was translated) which was in that of the Qammutiq Flats, which consisted mostly of a barren snowy valley which further surrounded the Qammutiq Lake. The Ila Pack was well known by the local townsfolk especially as being the largest of the four wild packs that inhabited the lands and the wildernesses of the land of Tokotna. However it was not just that every single person whether it was a member of the TCA, normal townsfolk or tokota handler knew that fact there was also the fact that, the Ila pack was a closely knit pack of remarkably well dispositioned individuals. Aesthetically, they appear to be comprised of mostly bright coat colors, and the pack members tend to lean more toward a diet of hare and small mammals rather than large game unlike those members of the Desna Pack.

The Qammutiq Flats were silent, being a result of the fact that it was so early morning that probably none of the wildlife were even awake yet but still, Sarah gritted her teeth against the cold and still headed forwards gently guiding Hades, who was also for once in his life really tired as quickly and as quietly as she could manage to across the thick layers of undisturbed pure white snow.

"I must be crazy to even attempt to try attempt at this again, this early in the morning..." the young blonde haired woman tokota handler said a little sleepily, but with a quick shake of her head she was back in control and focus once again. Hades seemed to snort at her words in a reply before he once again resigned herself to falling back to just ploughing through the thick layers of snow....Why were they actually there in the first place one may have asked?.....they were there for one very particular reason....to go and try to tame one of the newly TCA tagged wild tokotas, the one specific individual wild tokota being that of a Marked restricted piebald dappled brown coated curly maned male who was nicknamed Navajo.....

After a while when it felt like to Sarah at least that as one piece of the terrain of the Qammutiq Flats seemed to just melt into the next one and that this process would never ever end, which further made her dizzy at the thought of that fact of a scenario. The young blonde haired woman tokota handler did at that moment in time feel like just giving up on the idea at trying to find the small group of wild tokotas again..."Ow Hades shall we just go home?...." Sarah sighed after a while as she just noticed the first signs of the sun beginning to rise to once again bathe Tokotna in and with its radiance and warmth. However Hades Sarah's great hulking and mountainous Marked restricted gray lilac black coated male natural maned dire was now going to have none of Sarah's whining. Seeming to completely ignore her words the great hulking and mountainous Marked restricted gray lilac black coated male natural maned dire suddenly and without giving Sarah any sign of a warning surged forwards nearly removing Sarah's arms from their sockets in the process of this manoeuvre and also then after this immediately stuck his great muzzle to the ground in an attempt to pick up any possible scent which could help them speed up the seemingly never ending overly long process...

Sarah on the other hand had nearly fallen off her dire's great and very broad back but had ended up flat out over Hades' neck as he had suddenly surged forwards from beneath her "For goodness sake Hades!" Sarah growled through the pain that she was now currently feeling in her arms and shoulders but then she had not actually noticed that Hades had actually brought himself to a stop and it was then that the young blonde haired woman tokota handler happened then to take a glance at the ground beneath her dire's great paws and found herself gasping loudly....

Tracks were there upon the ground in front of them both....
But not just any tracks...
They were the distinctive tracks of tokotas....
Three tokotas in fact....

It was then that as Sarah truly and properly recognised the familiar tracks she had found just the day before that from where she now finally sat back in the saddle upright upon Hades's great and very broad back that she leant forwards this time on purpose in the saddle and threw her arms around her dire's great thick neck in a small attempt at hugging him "I'm sorry Hades..." the young blonde haired woman tokota handler began before she continued "Have I actually ever told you once how brilliant and amazing I think you are?". At that sentence Hades snorted half heartedly as if to just brush off the sentence before Sarah tapped the heels of her boots to the dire's side and with the words "Let's go then" immediately began to head off following after the tracks in the directions that the three sets seemed to be heading....

After that it did not take long for the pair to find who they were looking for. Gently slowing Hades to a stop to where the three sets of tracks seemed to just vanish into thin air, it was then that the young blonde haired woman tokota handler dismounted as quickly, quietly and as carefully as she could off of Hades' back and crept forwards around the rock formation that she and Hades had stopped before....

And then saw them...

She recognised the familiar shape of Balan first the male sphinx obviously being the 'guard' of the group whilst, 'Blackbird' the female barbary and Navajo the male Curly seemed to be dazed walking around to clear the sleep away from them.

It was then that the young blonde haired woman tokota handler began to slowly and carefully make her way towards Navajo specifically as that was who she had come to see. Balan of course recognised her immediately and barked to her as she came closer which however only set off Blackbird who barked loudly at her as well that was just how the way she was but Sarah this time round kept her eyes only on Navajo, "Hello again lad" Sarah began as she stopped a few feet away from the male Curly tokota who was watching her intently probably half expecting a great hulking and mountainous Marked restricted gray lilac black coated male natural maned dire to come charging at him from out of the shadows at any moment....

"Its all right lad, he won't do it again..." Sarah said trying her best to sound soothing as she still noticed the Curly's eyes darting towards the space behind her back, however it was then that as Sarah began to slowly extend her hand towards him that the Curly males confidence seemed to come back a bit and then ever so slowly he began to take a step forwards towards her whilst Blackbird still kept on barking "That is it" Sarah said as once again at her words Navajo once again took another step forwards towards her, Sarah would say at that particular moment he was probably about half way towards her before ever so slowly she began to close the gap between them and then a few moments later Navajo was standing before her his head lowered allowing Sarah to gently pet his face just as the sun truly rose over the Qammutiq Flats.