pester me gently

Trotting back home with a non glowing rat this time, he made sure to carry the carcass by the tail and let it swing back and forth against the pale fur of his chest with a great deal of grotesque pride. He could see the bulky taupe figure of his brother lurking in the shadows of the den's mouth, looking bored and stoic and boring! Maybe he'd entertain himself by pestering the other boy into playing with him. He flashed a toothy grin around the hairless tail of today's prize as he sauntered up to the den, tail high and ears perked. Without saying a word, he slid into the gap between Ghoul's left shoulder and the wall of the den. He dropped the cooling rat carcass between his oversized paws, folding his wicked talons neatly over the little bundle that would tide him over until dinner time.

"What're you sitting around here for?" he drawled with a quirk of his brow before he tucked into the snack he'd caught himself. Sure, the carcass was mangled- he wasn't exactly an expert hunter at this age- but it was certainly edible. With a mouthful of meat and a shit eating grin on his face, he sought to lightly jostle his brother's bulkier shoulder with his own. "Waiting for mom to come home?" he teased, and lost a few morsels of food in the process. He waited to see what Ghoul would do, even though he knew it would probably be a whole lot of nothing, and busied himself with scarfing down as much food as he could manage before he needed to pester his brother again.

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