this part of my lobotomy

Everything was so quiet. Quiet for too long actually. When a sound did break the silence, his eyes flashed towards the cause and found another standing just off to his side, just at the edge of his comfort zone. His eyes narrowed and a low growl began to form in his chest when the stranger spoke, breaking the sound from emerging through bared teeth.

Interested by their question, he'd been curious as to how he didn't notice such a beast prancing about near by if this man had. His eyes narrowed, in thought mostly, of how he could have missed such a thing. Shrugging it off a moment later, he glanced back at the man from his glazed over, lost in thought look and his lip twitched in annoyance.

"I've not." His hissed quietly, rising from his crumpled position beneath the willow. Littered with droppings from it's branches, he hardly noticed and focused on the man. If there was a panther around somewhere, this man wasn't going to get all of the action. If things for him changed tonight, perhaps he could take down the panther before they could. Using the man to track the panther seemed like a smart decision, so he smirked eerily and invited himself along for the hunt. "It's no easy feat to hunt a panther alone."

"Speech"

for Sirius, but anyone can enter