SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS
11-14-2014, 01:35 PM
She returned to consciousness as though awaking from sleep, the thrall-healer nudging her to wakefulness but for a moment she could not understand why he was there, why he was waking her and why she'd fallen asleep outside instead of within the cave she had claimed as her own. She rolled to her stomach and had to close her eyes as a wave of dizziness and pain swept her, bringing memory back into focus as it did. The challenge. Her eyes cracked into slits, tracked the golden Olympian's movements as she began to spill her claims like blood upon the earth. Katja was unmoved by the threats, though her eyes opened further into a narrow-eyed stare within uncaring features. She is unaffected by the woman's claims of what she would have done until she makes mention of the Xanilovs, and the gray-toned viking's hackles rose silently. "You should have done so," she tells the Olympian, her tone oddly reasonable, if somewhat hoarse. Ignoring the healer by her side she forces herself painfully to her feet, only to watch as her cousin stalked forth to curse the Olympian before his priestly bearing dissolves into eagerness. Discomfort washes her and she is indecisive - her cousin has ever been closer to the priesthood than the marauders and though he was trained as she was she would have considered him godi rather than warrior. Her body hunched and a conflicted light marks her eyes as she attempted to circle to the midway point between them, to face perpendicularly to them on Kapra's right side. It was not her place to stop Kapra if he wished to do this, but nor could she stand by idly while he risked himself. Her lip lifted in distaste at the Olympian's words - why would Kapra care for her children? He was taking blood for blood, not avenging Katja's loss of Yfir. That had been on her and it would be on her to redeem herself to the gods, not Kapra. But she couldn't just watch this... Virgil Olympus was vindictive and cursed with an insanity that Kapra had not seen, that he could not understand. She had seen it when Virgil had fought so viciously against her to steal the Xanilovs when Katja had refused to simply hand them to her. Kapra would not have cared even if she had told him. But she could not see her godly cousin mangled by a prideful demon who held a grudge against Katja. The Olympian charged for Kapra, and Katja made to spring forward as well. Her battered body slipped naturally into a fighter's stance, her paws positioned as she ran at an angle to provide the best balance, most fluid despite the right foreleg tucked to her chest. Her weight was evenly distributed between the three as they struck the ground, her joints loose and fluid to absorb the impact. Her three paws were spread wide, the toes flexing with each step so that her dull claws sank into the earth to propel her. Her head and tail were both held level with her spine, and her shoulders were rolled forward to bunch up her scruff - painfully, as her scruff was damaged. Her ears lay flat to her skull and her eyes were narrowed despite the pain of her facial cut. Her hackles bristled. "Don't touch him." The snarl that tore from her was fury and desperation as the need to protect her family overrode practicality. She gathered her hindquarters beneath her to attempt one more leap, as she did trying to turn her head to her own left to bring her right shoulder - otherwise useless for balance anyway with her paw tucked up - forward in the intention of having the front blade of her shoulder strike low on Virgil's left hip, trying to knock the Olympian off balance. Her jaws flashed as she attempted to gain a grip on Virgil's side midway down and immediately behind her ribs, trying simply to pull the Olympian away from Kapra. Nausea made itself known as injuries from her very, very recent loss protested the attacks. KATJA (joining KAPRA) vs VIRGIL for PROTECTION OF KAPRA AGAINST MAIM (I would guess? She's not trying to do a maim, just protecting Kapra basically) Round 1/2 |
Current time: 11-22-2024, 07:35 PM
Powered By MyBB, © 2002-2024 MyBB Group.
