Windstorm

*Gale* · 02-07-2016, 01:45 PM

Walk | Talk | Think

The singular, deeply spoken word stopped Gale in her tracks and caused her lavender-tinted ears to perk and swivel upon her head. Grey-green eyes stared intently ahead, but all of her focus was on that voice. Arcus. Had his voice always been so deep? She could almost remember the softer, higher tone of it from when he had been a child, the year before she had been forced to leave her parents' home and join up with her elder brothers. For a second she hesitated, not wanting to turn around and begin the conversation that she had promised Voltage she would have with their runaway sibling. You have to, just get it over with, her irritated inner voice instructed, and with another quiet intake of breath the grey and lavender wolf turned in place to face her sibling.

Immediately, she was startled by what she saw. The stubborn set of her expression blanched as she got her first good look at Arcus since before he had left, and, mouth gaping slightly, she stared. What the hell happened? He continued to address her in his typical rumbling tones, looking both annoyed and angry as he stared down his nose at her. "I think you mean eye, brother," she corrected, though the emphasis she tried to place on the last word to mock his address of her was entirely lost. The irritation she felt initially was all but gone entirely now, fully replaced by concern, confusion, and worry.

"This is a new look for you." She surprised herself by managing to keep her voice neutral, even casual, though her thoughts were easily read upon her face. He looked awful. Like he needed to eat more, needed a soft bed on which to sleep instead of wherever it was he was currently holed up hiding from the world. And his eye...or, rather, the absence of it. The scars looked improperly healed, ragged and too far gone to make right. "What'd you do, lose a bet?" The joke was probably in poor taste, but in the moment, frazzled by the unexpected sight of her storm cloud brother, Gale found it hard to be witty.

Gale

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