Rat Race

Body heaved with the effort of all he had just done. Blood continued to drop to the ground in a steady, rhythmic pattern. Drip...drip...drip... His teeth were firmly latched onto the remainder of the capybara's carcass, the lifeless eyes staring into the void. The young male was covered in mud, the white parts of his fur saturated with blood and debris. He looked almost insane. Had it been his mother or someone else who had come across him, he was sure that they wouldn't be able to recognize him. He remained in this trance, and when the larger wolf made his way from the water to come stand several feet from him, wild eyes moved to fixate on him. Cloud's body remained rigid, but every hair on his body stood up. A low, guttural growl scratched at his throat, and it wasn't until the man spoke that Cloud managed to grab hold of some part of himself.

Gold and Silver gaze was wild with whatever had consumed him, pupils constricted even. But when the man spoke of Demons, Cloud struggled with himself for a moment before his mind fell back to reality at last. It was as if whatever had taken hold of him had let go after several heartbeats, visible by the way his body slowly became relaxed and his pupils returned to normal. The wild look that had been in his gaze slowly trickled away, and when he remembered where he was and what he had been doing, he froze. He remembered what he was holding, and almost immediately he dropped the head until it fell to the ground with a squelch and a dull thud. His heartbeat quickened, what was happening to him!?

He glanced around, stomach turning at the sight of the murder scene. What had he done? His gaze quickly returned to the larger male, eyes clearly showing the fear that he felt. "W-what do you mean? What's happening to me!?" Did this man know what was wrong with him? Cloud never understood it. He had done his best to hide it from everyone. To his knowledge, this male was the only one to have witnessed it. But of course, Ace's observations had been done in secret and without the young male's knowledge. Cloud was afraid, to say the least. He was terrified! What if he ended up hurting his mother? Or someone else he cared for? There was so much he didn't understand...

"SPEAK"