Volpe reached the top of the hill he climbed just in time to see the rising sun. He closed his eyes and leaned into the morning breeze. He couldn't see the colors the sun painted across the sky, the brilliant reds, yellows, oranges... even shades of pink and purple that chased away the night time blue; yet he could feel it. He could see an image in his mind, powered by his elements ability to sense light.
He always knew when the sun was coming. He always felt it's warmth long before it breached the horizon. And he always awoke exactly an hour and a half before dawn.
He couldn't see the dawn, yet he could hear it. The birds whistled frantically in the trees, calling to one another, searching for food, chasing each other away. One annoying little chickadee had the nerve to perch right on his antler and start chicka-dee-dee-deeing in his ear. Volpe threw his antlers, shaking the creature off. He could hear the footsteps of deer- and not too far either.
Other creatures seemed to sense that Volpe was blind. The instincs of simple animals clearly told them something incapacitated him. It may have been the slow, careful way he walked. Or perhaps the way he didn't look directly at anything. Volpe didn't quite know what it was, but it... irritated him. Even forest fauna didn't take him seriously, despite the feared predators his kind so often were.
Volpe snorted, and as a result his dailans blinked irritably. Volpe twisted slightly, drawing his mask from the bags and pouches slung over his back. He didn't know why, but for some reason (perhaps a nagging feeling of importance) something compelled him to put it on. He clipped it to the piercings in his mouth and by his ears, shaking his head slightly to make sure it was well affixed.
He turned suddenly when he heard a terrible racket to his left. Had his ears been intact, they would have pricked forward with curiosity. He heard the deer that were currently standing there turn tail and flee. Volpe approached hesitantly, yet curiosity lit his usually dead eyes. With a risk of looking stupid, Volpe decided to say something. If it were an animal they would simply run off, however if it was a Shinlai- he didn't want to look like an imbecile simply standing there and "watching".
"Are you alright?"
(wOW I'M SORRY THIS TOOK SO LONG)
