A White Canvas [Ash]

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Uther

Uther walked at a painfully slow pace so that Xenia could keep up. He would have offered to support her, but his fur was coated in blood. Her beautiful white pelt was too pretty to get dirty. The Amoux Creek was a few feet away. Uther glanced back at Xenia and smiled. In a gleeful tone, he yipped, "I'm gonna go ahead to start rinsing off." Not waiting for a reply, he rushed towards the waiting water. 

He ran at top speed before leaping into the air. "Wee!!" Twisting in midair, he splashed into the body of moving water. His head was submerged and he looked around him. Tadpoles scattered to find hiding places among the mossy rocks. Bubbles swirled around his body as the oxygen escaped his mouth and coat. The water rushed by. Uther's lungs started to beg for air as his hind legs hit the bottom. He bent his legs before shooting up and out of the water. His head broke the surface. The surface of the water was layered with the blood washing out of his fur. It was a relief to be free of most of the red substance, but it had reached his skin and the water could not wash it out. He would have to manually lick his pelt clean. Gross. 

The bank was close by and Uther kicked his legs to propel him to the edge. His paws touched solid earth beneath him. Putting his weight down, he walked until he was in shallow enough water to sit partially in the water. Uther started running his tongue down his flank, tasting the mixture of deer blood and water. 

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Xenia appreciated the fact that he had walked slowly to keep near to her. She smiled softly, enjoying being near Uther as she limped along, following him to where he would soon bath in the water. "Go-" she started as he ran off for the still moving water, "Ahead.."  he replied, rolling her eyes and smiling as she began to limp towards the Amoux Creek.

The female giggled at him as he jumped into the air and exclaimed with glee before causing the water to rupture and then ripple for awhile. She thought he had been under too long, she began to get nervous as she approached the bank of the creek. Her heart started racing, but before she jumped herself in, she saw his muzzle rise above the surface. Xenia sighed with relief as she hobbled over to meet him on the bank he climbed up on.

"Want some help..?" she asked quietly and nervously as she saw him beginning to lick his fur clean of blood from the doe.

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Uther

Uther was concentrating on one spot when Xenia offered to help. The idea of a stranger helping him wash his pelt made him uncomfortable. He opened his mouth to tell her no, but the total opposite came out. "That would be great." Uther looked away and silently cursed himself. Then he thought about the feeling of her tongue running across his back. His tail started to wag before he slammed his paw down on it. He then returned his attention to the problem at hand. His fur. The gross, sticky blood was stuck far down into his fur. Uther wanted to gag as he ran his tongue slowly down his red stained fur. 

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Xenia smiled happily as Uther accepted her offer to help. She wasn't really sure why she wanted to help lick gross blood out of the male's pelt, but she would anyways. She padded herself near to Uther and worked on the opposite side of him, dragging her tongue across his fur and his pelt to help clean out the blood buried deep within. It was the least she could do for Uther, after getting the doe killed and sharing the food, and even offering to stay with Xenia afterwards to make sure she was okay. She was a bit disgusted with the half-dry, half-wet blood as she helped to get it out, but still she was happy to help the male out.

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Uther

He paused as he felt her tongue touch his fur. Uther then underwent an experience that left him speechless. The best way to describe it with words is that he felt a warmth spread through his body that words could not do justice. His body froze and he closed his eyes, savoring the moment. Not wanting Xenia to notice what was taking place, he continued cleaning the blood out of his fur. 

The cleaning took about half an hour, before they had finished. Uther flopped down and let his tongue hang out. "My tongue feels gross and tired." He looked at Xenia and smiled. "Thank you for helping me. It would have taken a lot longer alone." Uther was not only happy that she helped, but he wanted her to stay. This was an odd feeling because he hated the company of other wolves. Maybe she felt the same? He would wait before deciding to ask her. 

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Xenia saw him pause his licking, looking the opposite way as soon as she started on his other side. She wondered why that was, but didn't question him about it as she continued to groom out his fur and get the blood out of it. When she was done, she made her way to the water again, hobbling over to the edge of the water bank and sticking her head down close to the water. She extended her tongue into the water and let it become clear of the taste of blood. Once that was over she hobbled a few feet down the bank to a clear spot of water and lapped up some of the clear water there, gulping it down.

She giggled at him a little bit, walking her way back over to him with her limp. "It took me a bit to get over the taste, but I did, and quickly washed it out." she replied, rolling her eyes before sitting herself down next to him. The female didn't want to leave his side for quite a few reasons. The first being she had her limp and would be useless in certain activities that she needed to perform to live, and the second was she felt something with Uther that she hadn't felt in a long while, and it was keeping her from leaving his side.

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Uther

Now that his fur was clean and his stomach was full, he didn't know what to do. What should Uther say to Xenia? They hadn't really learned much about each other, so he didn't know what to talk about. Uther stole a glance at Xenia sitting next to him. Should he say something witty? Or maybe something common? He decided to say the first thing that came to mind. Uther took a deep breath and searched his brain. Looking at Xenia, he smiled and spoke. "Nice weather we're having." The weather?! The best thing he could come up with was the weather?! Uther mentally beat himself for saying something so cliche and stupid. Ne braced himself for Xenia's response. 

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Xenia looked around, but she was always trying to keep her head in Uther's direction if she could, looking down at him with her eyes every now and then before she raised her eyes to look around again. She wondered if she should say something, or if the male would break the tension between the two that was so obviously there. Soon her mind was answered as he spoke, but she wondered why he chose something so simple and so cheesy, especially for trying to break the ice on a crush. The thought made her get a bit warm at the thought, but she passed it over. "The weather is alright I suppose.. Not too cold.. Not too hot.. But that'll change as winter approaches I suppose.. Which won't be much longer. What do you think?" she questioned back before slowly laying herself down beside him and looking over at him with her bi-colored eyes.

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Uther

Uther was surprised when she actually answered the stupid question. He watched her as she responded. As she lay down, he noticed that she had asked a counter question. He had been so distracted by watching to her, that he hadn't heard a word she said. Raking his mind really quick for a question she might have asked, he saw the gray clouds. She must have asked something about the rain coming. "It does look like it will rain soon. Or maybe snow, since winter is coming." Pretty sure that he had nailed it, he sat straight, not bothering to lay next to Xenia. He preferred to look at her back. Shaking his head, he decided to hear her response this time. 

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Xenia laid her head over her paws, looking up at Uther as he sat up. She was too busy watching him that she didn't even realize that the clouds were coming in to cause a storm. As he mentioned it she looked up to see them. "Yeah.. I didn't even realize it.. Maybe we should take shelter before it rains.. It's too warm for it to snow.. But who knows maybe the temperature will drop another ten degrees and it will snow." she joked a bit before looking back at him and slowly raising herself back up to her paws, wincing a bit as she did so. "I..." she said before her wince, "Don't think I'll race you this time." she smiled halfheartedly.

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Uther

Uther listened as Xenia talked and watched as she rose painfully. Once she was standing, she made a joke. He chuckled and rushed to her side to support her. "No. I think I'm done with racing anyways." Uther smiled and pushed up a little on Xenia's flank to allow her to release some pressure off her leg. "You're right. We should find shelter soon. It may not be dark yet, but with the condition you're in, it will take us a while." He took a step, looked at Xenia, and asked, "Shall we?"

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She was grateful that Uther helped her out and supported her, it caused her to smile, yet her cheeks warmed up a bit at the same time. Xenia kept her eyes on Uther as he kept some weight on her flank. It took off some of the pain if she wanted to walk, which was good for her. "Yes, let's go Uther.. Lead the way." she replied, her attitude being changed so much from when they had first met in the forest of love. She thought about that and it only caused her to blush a little bit more as she thought back to the first things she said about the forest being a load of crap and no one would find their true love there, but Xenia was beginning to think a bit differently, though she wasn't sure if she should tell Uther or not, nervous to what he might say.

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(OOC: Do we wanna start a new thread somewhere else, or keep goin here?)