Bite Bite Fight!

She winced at the sound of his voice, and some of that earlier confidence he had seen in her seemed to collapse in on itself. He got up, immediately dwarfing the tiny child, and he shuffled forward, careful not to squish her beneath a paw larger then she was. He ruffled her fur with his breath as he leaned forward. He grasped her gently in his teeth, dragging her into the space between his paws, and capturing here there gently. “No my little flower” he whispered, eyes dancing gently as he regarded her, close enough for his nose to touch hers.

“That was a raccoon” he informed her as she described the striped creature, she growled, and pounced an empty spot before him. He couldn’t help himself, he scooped her with a paw, pushing her closer and pressing a kiss to her forehead. She was so tiny that it was her face in general that he kissed more than one spot.

“You were very fierce, I saw the way it ran, tail between its legs” he complimented her, a touch of fatherly pride clear in his tone. When she asked about death, he considered it, and then touched the bird beside her with the tip of his nose. “Birds like this have multiple functions. To us, they have two. The first; is that they lay eggs. That's what your Mother Zee, and Nanny Odette use them for. The second function is meat. Your mother does not like it when we use them for meat, so these birds, in the pen, are safe from being eaten.”

He explained, and with careful motions, he moved around her, digging a feline claw into each side of the bird, and ripping gently, to show her the meat beneath the feathers. “Taste it, if you want, little Asla, but don’t hunt these birds in the future, okay?” he clarified. “What you did was kill the chicken, you ended her life, and that was okay because she was in pain, she would not have lived anyway.” he would continue with his explanation. The way he described death might not be as gentle as most fathers to their children, but Sirius was practical, and he had no attachment to this creature, and saw no need to install it in Asla - other then that of property, in which they belonged to Odette and Zee, and not the child.