Show me how you do that trick.
04-19-2018, 09:59 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-19-2018, 10:31 AM by Kane I.)
For as little as she was, that grimace and obvious signs of a seething rage brewing behind it nearly struck fear into the black devil's heart. His eye widened as he watched her finally erupt and begin pacing, yelling at him. What had he done wrong, now?
He had no idea what she was going off about at first until he looked and saw the bouquet of flowers rested a couple feet from them. How was he supposed to know??! No one was ever really nice to him before, she wasn't even really nice to him. Well, was she? Aaaahh! The point was, how was he supposed to know she had planned on giving him a gift? He had never been given one.
He could feel his heart racing within his broad chest as he stood there, instinctively squaring out his posture and balancing his weight as if expecting some sort of attack from her. There is no way he would fight her, but he would prepare himself to defend himself if she dared to attack him. With as crazy as she seemed to be acting, it seemed like a possibility.
No attack came from her and almost as quickly as she seemed to get upset, she was calming down. He lifted his weight up again, relaxing his posture slightly as he no longer felt like she was ready to do something crazy. He watched her carefully, obvious signs of confusion on his face. He didn't even know what to say! What was he supposed to do? Thank her now? It would seem insincere, despite how much he.... actually did appreciate that she tried to surprise him. No, it was too late. He couldn't say thank you now.
He sighed, so deep it was almost a growl as he released some of his frustration. He shook his head and looked away from her. Kindness? Attention? What did she want from him? For as smart as he was, he sure seemed dense as hell when it came to figuring out that a girl showed interest in him. With how he seemed to upset her all the time, he wouldn't have thought that was the case at all. He still didn't. Maybe she was just needy like this with everyone?
She intrigued him, as much as he hated to admit it. He had no idea what it was like to go through emotions as quickly and fiercely as she seemed to be and he couldn't help but be curious. What was that like, and was she able to defend herself if anyone wanted to prey on someone like her? What if Kane had been manipulative and evil? He couldn't help but see her as naive, even if she used the term herself quite sarcastically. After all, she had spent the night with him without fear at all.
He needed to distract himself, maybe.. just get her some food and perhaps she would be less cranky.
The first pond that they resided at would make up the far right toe of Wolfpaw Lake, and Kane had chosen to walk counter-clockwise around all four to finish his surveillance that he had started yesterday. None of the other smaller ponds seemed to hold anything larger than fish and otters, but as he neared the biggest lake of them all- he could see the precariously placed logs and branches of a beaver dam sticking out over the reeds around the bank. That would suffice, but he would have to be careful. He really didn't want to fuck with their teeth today.
He stopped and looked behind him, searching for the girl as he craned his neck down to whisper to her.
Expecting there to be at least one beaver within the dam, he kicked off the mud and started running toward it. He barreled through the reeds and immediately grabbed on to the branches that made up the dam and started thrashing it apart, destroying it ferociously and suddenly to start off his raid. His suspicions had been confirmed when he heard the splashing of smaller beavers entering the water around him- they were too small for him to bother with so he simply watched as they ran for their lives.
He stood there, disappointed that nothing bigger had been lurking inside the dam but- failed to notice the very angry parents of those young beavers coming up behind him in the water that just barely reached his chest. A thick set of bucked teeth sank into his back right leg and Kane groaned out, growling as he twisted his neck to see one on his leg and another right behind that one, ready to follow suit.
He thrashed in the water, turning to face the second beaver as the first one then became involuntarily pulled along with his leg as it refused to let go. His jaws snapped at the second beaver, trying to deter it away but t was already too angry in its territorial rage. The beaver dove beneath the water and would attempt to go for Kane's forelimb just before he lifted it and then snapped down beneath the water, grabbing her by her neck.
One quick toss and he sent her flying several yards away, hoping that it was enough to either end her life or send her running. No, of course, it wasn't.
The other beaver was much larger, and still gnawing his way through the muscles of Kane's back leg with vengeance. Kane growled out, nearly whimpered as he tried to think about how to get the damn thing off of him without serious injury.
When you're taught to love everyone,
To love your enemies,
Then what value does that place on love?