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Avoiding the Thought



Domovei

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04-11-2013, 07:28 PM (This post was last modified: 04-11-2013, 07:30 PM by Domovei.)



Since nearly the moment he'd been born, he'd been destined for insanity. No great things lay in his distant future -- no dreams of greatness haunted his sleep, no aspirations for anything greater than the life he lived. His childhood had been markedly traumatizing, and the abuse he had suffered was forever written on his pelt, even now as he stood before Cassandra; he would claim they were battle scars, but most of them had been taken almost gladly, as though his suffering was warranted and deserved.

Once again his limbs began to quiver, the furious shaking of his body impossible to miss. "If this Lentajin is so great, where are your packmates to guide you? You seem to be wandering like a common rogue." The insult against his home was subtle, but not nearly enough so to go unnoticed. Tongue would lash out like a weapon, running along his dry lips, the brute's head lowering as his eyes flared with anger. "Lentajin is great," he corrected her, his words hardly recognizable, erupting from his throat in the form of a vicious snarl. "There is no water there... it is not my Queen's fault for that... she was gone when I awoke. I set out to find her, and to find something to wet my mouth..." He certainly needed more than just a single drink, despite the sudden calmness that overcame him literally mid-sentence. But his words did not conceal the exhaustion that threatened to collapse his body.

His vision still blurred, eyes going in and out of focus as he struggled to keep the female in his line of sight. Surprise painted on his feminine features as he watched her, as though he forgot she had mentioned that there was a river nearby earlier. "Would you take me there?" Once his voice had been a surprisingly vicious roar, for such a small male -- but as calmed, his tones were unsettling delicate and desperate. If only Newt was here, her strength would keep him grounded...