A taste of fruit

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[atrb=background,http://i56.tinypic.com/igybk2.jpg] The autumn sunlight filtered down from behind the clouds that were migrating across the sky. They were white and fluffy as if someone had put giant balls of cotton wool up there. The sky itself was a deep clean blue, a beautiful blue that could be surpassed by no other. The sky itself showed no trace of the season change that was underway but the land seemed to be suffering. The coats of trees were changing from green to yellow soon to be orange and then red. Some had already drifted down to the ground, gathering in piles and covering the ground in a carpet of warm colours. It crunched as one walked across it no matter how silent they tried to be. Recently fallen fruits peeked hap-hazardously from behind and under leaves. Some were rotting already while others had just reached ripeness. It gave the air a tingly and fruity smell The two that were one walked slowly through the orchard, carefully avoid the fruit but seemingly unworried about the crunching sound that followed in their wake. Both were lost in their own thoughts and walked absentmindedly. The wolves themselves each had a front body but they shared a back body, having six legs all together. The two were coloured differently while the parts that they shared were a light orange. The one half was a deep but not too bright red while the other was a dusty yellow. Behind them trailed three tails, two of them being yellow and the other one being red. Both of the two wolves had blue eyes but the red one’s were much more vivid and blue than the other’s. These wolves were Lyxxus and the reason they were so strangely built was because of a rare birth defect. Both were independent of the other and thought perfectly. Their minds fully functional and extremely different. One of them had her head up in the clouds while the other had hers firmly on the ground. Together they kept each other’s feet firmly on the ground and they loved each other more than anything in the world. “Lexi” The dreamer said, her voice soft and childlike. She had recently come out of a dream about the two of them been able to fly. The world had been soft and bouncing and they had been continually shot into the air. They had not been able to land and sleep had been overcoming her in the dream. Her sister had been fighting to keep them alive while She slipped out of the dream and back into reality. “Ya?” Said the one name Lexi. Her yellow head looking at her sister’s. They both stopped and Sat down. She had been thinking about the probability of one of the fruit lying on the ground around them been edible. She had come to the conclusion that it would not be a good idea to try just in case their stomachs may not be able to handle it. Firstly they were wolves and wolves generally ate meat and secondly their digestive system was picky. They shared one and even though it was rather tough from what they had been eating in the last bit she still didn’t want to take any chances. “Its almost winter right?” Erin didn’t like winter as much as her sister did. She preferred the warm fuzzy breeze of summer. Summer contained lazy breezes and plenty food. Summer contained the beauty of nature; flowers, colours, new life. It was magnificent and utterly amazing. “Yep yep” Lexi chuckled and wagged the three tails, winter showed the true form of nature. The raw beauty of it all. The stuff you didn’t see every day, the stuff that not many appreciated. Winter brought out survival and tested one’s skills. Winter was the ultimate season, a logical season. Plus snow was rather fun to mess around in. Erin let out an audible sigh and she dropped her head. She kicked a small apple from paw to paw. Studying the ripe redness of it, without consulting her sister she bent closer to it and took a bite. She had never eaten fruit before and she was sure this time was a good time to start. The juices dribbled down her jaw, giving the short fur a shiny line. The juice was clear and Erin was surprised by the amazing taste of the fruit. Unlike meat it was sweet and had a bit of a tougher texture. Like eating soft rocks. Meat was just as juicy and even though the taste varied from animal to animal it was easily identifiable as meat. This was completely different. She swallowed and gave her sister an excited look. The look on her sister’s face said it all and Lexi couldn’t help but take a bit of the apple her sister had just tasted and her own reaction was just as amazing. Only once she swallowed did she notice her sister had taken them over to another fruit, a darker coloured one. It looked like it was made of many little black water droplets that clung together. They bother devoured some from the ground and the proceeded to take some off the bush. Her sister yelped and spat out one of the berries she had just eaten and out of fear Lexi spat out what she was chewing. Her sister’s face went through a series of foul face while Lexi watch worriedly. “Air?” She said fearfully and then her sister started laughing. “Sorry Lex, just a strange flavoured one. Dont eat the green ones” She used her nose to point at one of the green berries and then Lexi laughed with her. The rest of the day was spent testing and tasting various different fruit and by the end of the day the two had lines of juice down their face. Most of it was dried and sticky and their stomach bulged ever-so-slightly. They lay underneath a tree, cleaning each others muzzles while the food digested. Lexi’s previous fears about their digestive system came back. She hoped that the food wouldn’t invoke any stomach pains or something of that sort. If it did then they would need to seek out a healer of sorts. Though she didn’t know whether the pack had one. She looked up at the sunset, surprised at how beautiful it was. Today had been a good day.