A black and white silhouette flew over the grassy fields, iridescent wing and tail feathers glinting in the afternoon sun. The bird was large and obviously well-cared for and didn't seem like a simple avian passing over the lands. As soon as he spotted the wall, the bird made an arc in the sky. He began his descent when a large dark and cream figure came into view.
The beast was an enormous specimen and obviously not one of the usual feline species. A cream-colored mane like that of a lion stopped before broad, muscular shoulders. His body was chocolate brown and sliced through with darker stripes that were reminiscent of a tiger. He was robustly built with thick limbs and his pelt looked well-cared for. A thickly-furred tail flicked behind him as he stood, red eyes fixed towards the sky. A pair of ivories peeked out from under his lip.
Upon closer inspection, one would notice that not only did he look well-cared for, he also looked well-off. His body was adorned with luxury items that few of the animal world usually possessed. Tarnished gold and silver beads and other trinkets were scattered through his mane, around a dozen woven in. A
pendant hung from a thick cord glinted in the sun, the insignia of a dragon on red, a relic from his past that was obviously human-made. A
bracelet made from woven cord, ruby, and pearls wrapped around his left paw that also was human-made. He wasn't your average feline that had been born and raised in the wild. A worn leather rucksack sat at his feet, another of human construction and didn't look empty.
Another bird was perched on his shoulder, a crow with amethyst eyes. She began to hop around excitedly as the magpie came into sight and let out an excited caw. The magpie landed near the feline and looked up at him.
Iorek knew a border when he smelled it and this one was strong. There were many scents that marked the border, most of which being canine. That didn't bother him very much since he had more experience with them than he had of his own kind. He had been traveling when he came across this, for all intents and purposes, wall that he was going to try to go around.
Hermes had a different idea and flew off with a squawk of
'Wait here!' and the hybrid was left with Brynn and his belongings. He had yet to see a human in these lands but he didn't want to risk the magpie having to look for him and being shot down by a weapon. So he waited.
'There is wall past field grass. Much forest behind,' Hermes squawked in the bird tongue that the brindled beast could understand after being his companion for so long. The male's stomach felt like he had swallowed a rock when he heard the word "wall". Walls in his experience meant humans and he knew that the magpie knew what a wall looked like and not another rock formation.
The red-eyed feline felt like he was being pulled in two directions. He had had both good and bad memories of humans and part of him wanted to put as much distance as he could between what could be another settlement but part of him wanted to stay and start again. He sat down, reaching for the medallion that hung around his neck. He had been raised as a pet in a human village and after being cast out, became something of a pet to a pair of elderly humans. Those were good memories and experiences to make him want to stay.
But it had been a human that had cast the oversized feline out of his life with humans and another that almost killed him when he tried to return. Humans attacked the small family he managed to join, the caravan that for the short months had been his third home. They killed them out of fear and the beast knew what humans and humans with weapons could do.
The scent of the border was obviously canine and he couldn't smell human in the markers. Whatever pack could have simply moved into the territory with the wall being the mark left upon the land by the former residents.
The crimson-eyed cat wanted a place to rest his head after months of traveling on his own. He didn't want to be on his own anymore and he didn't know what other creatures roamed these new lands. There was safety in numbers, comfort.
The scarlet-eyed hybrid knew of canine customs but he lacked the ability to howl. He let out not quite a roar, it was long and almost like a feline-version of a howl with the length. When someone came, the beast would stand up but keep his ears and half mast and his tail low.