<strong>Night-Rending Howl: Future<br/>Tagged:</strong>Curious<br/><hr/><br/>She glanced over at him, shrugging slightly.  "I grew up pretty much on the border of the Wyld taint area.  About an eighth of my tribe were Wardens, like I am now, including our Elder."  Her voice grew soft, almost wistful, as she spoke.  "My parents weren't, but one of my uncles was.  I think two or three of my cousins - the older ones anyway - were as well.  I've been moving around so long, I haven't really seen any of them in... almost five years now.  And I was never sure about any of them to begin with.  I knew they were fighting to protect the tribe, but I hardly ever saw any of them."<br/><br/>She tucked her hands in against her sides, under her arms, as she walked.  "I remember the night before the Elder said I'd been chosen by Luna to protect Creation."  The dark hid the tears coursing from her eyes.  "My brother and two of my uncles died.  A group of Wyld mutants managed to break through the pickets.  Killed an entire group of my tribe."  She sighed.  Her voice cracked as she said the next line.  "My father died that night, too.  Keeping the things away from my mother and I.  It at least kept both of us alive.  But the mutants managed to make it to the center of our village, to where the elders were."<br/><br/>She paused, rubbing her hands over her arms as more than just the chill of the night struck her, a shiver running through her body.  "The only reason our Elder was still alive the next morning to interpret my dream that night afterward was because, as one of them was about to kill him, I ran in with a spear picked up from one of the other warriors.  Ran it through to the point my fist was pushing against the entry wound, trying to shove the spear through completely."