it had been wise to follow him to the battlefield. She had lingered in the background, out of sight and carefully positioned so that her scent wasn't carried to the crowd. She would watch as Novocaine was ripped into and eventually defeated. A growl would vibrate her larynx as she shook her head. Only when the crowd dissipated did she approach. With little care or delicacy, she would grab his scruff and begin to drag him back to Arcanum borders. It had been a long and tiresome journey, his dead weight weighing her down. When they finally made it back, she would dump him unceremoniously within the borders. For a moment she was just look at him. Thoroughly annoyed. He was undoubtedly be blind in his injured eye. He had a few superficial wounds, his only other major injury was his shoulder. It had been dislocated. Lifting a forepaw, she would place it on his ribs, crown lowering so that jaws would grip his foreleg, above his ankle. Fangs would undoubtedly puncture his flesh as her grip was tight. Bracing him with her leg, she gave a sharp jerk of her skull, listening for the satisfying 'pop' as his leg popped back into its socket. Releasing him, she would sit, waiting for him to wake up. WORDS HERE

((OOC. Language warning for this post, Novo's mouth needs to be cleaned out with soap.))

Of Catalya?s presence the boy had been completely unaware, and due to his incapacitated state the boy had no knowledge that the silver woman had taken it upon herself to drag him back across the pack lines. There was no prior warning before pain exploded through his unconscious state, lids snapping open violently. ?Fucking shit!? He spat, snapping into an upwards position. ?Shitting piss cock, fuuuuuuck.? The string ended with the last drawn out expletive. ?That fucking?? His expression dropped, one of anger and pain turning first to confusion to horror. ??hurt?? His voice dropped, the word ending up as a mumble.
The boy blinked, then again seeming unable to understand what he was seeing, or rather what he wasn?t. ?What?? He asked softly, lifting his gaze to the silver woman, one steel blue orb locking on her, the other empty socket pointed blankly in her direction. ?What did she do to me?? There was genuine fear in his voice.

He would wake with a string of curses. under different circumstances, she would have smirked. But she was far from amused. Her eyes blazed with unspoken fury. His attitude would suddenly change. Fear rolled off him in waves, his voice quivered with it. Impatience flared her nostrils and narrowed her eyes. "Aside from your dislocated shoulder, your most likely blind in that eye." If he couldn't see, then chances were that he would never see again. Her hackles threatened to bristle, lips curl to reveal the tips of ivory fangs. Irritation rolled off her in waves, clashing with his fear. She should give him something to be genuinely afraid of. He had done a pathetic job of defending himself, and had she not come to his aid, he would still be passed out on the battlefield, left to picked on by scavengers. Weariness tugged at her bones and frayed her control. "You are a fool." She bit out the words, her tones unforgiving and unyielding. WORDS HERE

There was a coldness in the silver bitch?s tone that set Novocaine on edge, his posture growing ridged. Still he knew there would be no point picking a fight with her, at least not the way he wanted he was injured, tired and he really didn?t want to be thrashed any more than he already was. Also he was pretty sure that his depth perception was off. He rolled his shoulder, expecting to feel a twinge of pain go rushing through him and pleasantly surprised when it did as he wanted without protest.
?You are a fool.? Novo bristled then. ?And here I was thinking you?d appreciate the fact that I went to face her. But you?re right, I should have just let her rip my eye out without a fight! Please do feel free to march over to her and show me how I should have handled her!? He was tired, in pain and the last thing he really wanted was a lecture on how to not get blinded when he was already berating himself.

He would bristle, spitting angry words at her. Lips curled in a snarl, her temper flaring. But there was no fun in attacking one that couldn't fight back. He would spend the next several months adjusting to his new vision, or lack there of. The wound would take time to heal as well. With a single movement, her right foreleg would lift and aim to strike him across his muzzle. "I should hand you back to her." Irritation seeped from her jaws. But she had nothing more to say to him, swinging away from him, she would depart, leaving him to sort himself out. Her departure was silent, paws pressing into the ground without much effort. She would leave him alone of now, but in a few weeks time she was going to lay into him. She couldn't have such pathetic fighters in her ranks. She knew that she was only as strong as her weakest link. And there would no weak links permitted. A single audit tipped back toward him, ensuing that he at least got up to move away from the border and deeper into the territory, where he would be safer and it would not be so easy to pluck him from her ranks. -exit- WORDS HERE

His gaze was hard, fixed on her as she in turn snarled at him and one part of him was screaming at him to move, if she tried to attack now he?d be less than useless his wounds and new perspective leaving him at a distinct disadvantage. Still she only swiped at him and he leaned back, not far enough as her paw clipped across his muzzle, her blunted claws striking hard. His head snapped to the side with a quick pained exhalation and he fixed her with an angry glare, his good eye facing right at her. He bit back his retort lest it get him into further trouble.
The silver woman spun around and stalked away, though Novocaine remained aware of her perked ears. The boy spat, and slowly rose to this paws, working his sore muscles. With one last glare thrown in the direction the silver woman had exited he too stalked further into the pack lands, seeking out his den so as to nurse his wounded pride.
-Exit Novocaine-