Who's crazier? The fool or fool that listens...

The first thing Bas earned for his clumsiness was a growl and a paw thrust at the boy to shove him aside.  Rather like a stone or random object thrown at him, it was whacked aside.  It had gotten in the way of his work!  It was hard enough to focus without distractions tumbling right in front of him.

The object out of his way he glared back at the snare for a moment before awareness caught up.  Kotori glanced down to what he’d whacked to get out of his way.  The object was a kid, a new young black and blue boy.  Kotori was fairly certain they hadn’t met before.  He’d been away a lot lately before everything got weird so as he looked at the pup he tried to recall if he knew who the boy belonged to.  The eye markings and size were enough to convince Kotori it was family.

“You got in the way,” he irritatedly explained to the boy, “and you’re clumsy and should have avoided the attack.” Charge after charge placed on the poor boy who did nothing more than stumble in front of him.  That’s what you get for falling in front of a mentally sick wolf dangit!

The pup had his attention now so Kotori used his other paw to toss the snare away and this time not into the water.  He had aimed for ground, it landed in the fire, so that was one more snare destroyed.  The boy got a disapproving look as if this was his fault also.

“Hard to be a good fighter if you can’t even walk in a straight line,” this last part was more grudgingly stated.  Oh, right.  Azure had pups.  One thing Kotori hadn’t wanted was pup sitting duty and yet here was one right in front of him.  Kotori slowly exhaled, trying to calm himself.  With a paw he whipped away some ooze that was flowing from his mouth again.  Kotori thought of apologizing and then ditched the thought.  


Kotori Fatalis