The Empty City
“He’d forgotten how much he enjoyed the freedom and space of the wild—on the rare occasions when he ventured there.
He’d gone past the city limits only a few times: for the chase of a rabbit hunt, or when the longpaws from the Trap House were on the streets and he needed to make himself scarce for a few days. Now, he felt excitement growing in his belly and tickling his spine. He could try proper hunting again—rabbits, squirrels, even gophers!
This wasn’t wild country just yet, but it was getting that way. A scrubby field lay before them, rough-grassed and fenced with broken wire. Not the wilderness, but not a longpaw park, either. Running through the gorse and weeds was a small, sluggish river, perhaps two dog-lengths wide, its surface calm and smooth and slow. Lucky’s ears pricked up and he panted with pleasure as the other dogs came to his side.
“Water!” he said, and bounded toward it.
He was still many dog-lengths away from it when he scrabbled to a halt, hair bristling all over hi...s body, the river-smell stinging his nostrils.MoreLess
He’d gone past the city limits only a few times: for the chase of a rabbit hunt, or when the longpaws from the Trap House were on the streets and he needed to make himself scarce for a few days. Now, he felt excitement growing in his belly and tickling his spine. He could try proper hunting again—rabbits, squirrels, even gophers!
This wasn’t wild country just yet, but it was getting that way. A scrubby field lay before them, rough-grassed and fenced with broken wire. Not the wilderness, but not a longpaw park, either. Running through the gorse and weeds was a small, sluggish river, perhaps two dog-lengths wide, its surface calm and smooth and slow. Lucky’s ears pricked up and he panted with pleasure as the other dogs came to his side.
“Water!” he said, and bounded toward it.
He was still many dog-lengths away from it when he scrabbled to a halt, hair bristling all over hi...s body, the river-smell stinging his nostrils.MoreLess
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