#sastruga

The howls dwindled the same as the stars, muffled by the fingers of sunlight creeping into the sky. They clamored back to the mountain top with less enthusiasm than they’d had just hours prior, where the fires still glowed and spat thick gray smoke, the plumes just dark enough to hold off the inevitable, to hold onto some of the night. With his breath ragged in his chest, Sesshoumaru watched as they vanished, as his father's bright blue eyes faded into the yellowing sky until there was nothing left of the ghost save for clouds as soft as fur. 

They returned to the castle, had to pick their way back down the mountainside, but his cousins and the other dogs still had the energy enough to yip and whine and tussle, nipping at each other's flanks as they made their way into the entry yard. He cared little for it, too old to wrestle with pups and his blood still simmering hot and thundering through his veins, his vision unfocused and the scent of smoke still heavy in his nostrils. He needed a different sort of release, for what little energy he had left, but it wasn't until they'd passed through the barrier that he realized exactly what that was.

With needlepoint clarity, his nose found that familiar scent―

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