Shadow that Creeps

Shadow for short

Lore:
Spoiler"A dark spirit rests inside you."

The words of her pack's -- old pack's -- herbalist rung in her head, and she repeated it more times than she would've liked. She had no idea what it could mean, but she knew it had to be bad if she wasn't welcome in the glacier anymore. Sadly for them, she still padded onwards with snow under-paw, the only sign that she still breathed the same air as her old packmates.

As the sun stained the white wasteland yellow and pink, and the moon came to remind creatures to sleep, Shadow kept walking. She didn't feel tired, nor hungry, yet she had just spent the whole day walking. And repeating those accursed words. Dark spirit, what dark spirit? Perhaps one that enhanced her stamina and... everything else. It was as if admitting that there was something weird about her had allowed it to take action, removing all her physical ails.

Shadow felt as though her pelt didn't fit anymore. There was something bigger inside her, hiding under the surface, and it had been stuck, hidden, trapped, for far too long. It changed her. She was changed.


Taken:
10000 steps in Glacier
1000 steps in Tundra
1000 steps in Taiga
1000 steps in Coniferous Forest
1000 steps in Mountains
1000 steps in Grasslands
1000 steps in Deciduous Forest
1000 steps in Riparian Woodland
1000 steps in Desert
1000 steps is Swamp
1000 steps in Rainforest

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