{ I'M SORRY I RAN AWAY }

                    a crooked grin chisels the viper’s countenance as her mother and father evacuate the interior of their cavern, ensnaring her attention abruptly and forcing her infantile curiosity to pique. her vermillion gaze { teeming with devious intent } is quick to pinpoint her behemoth littermate’s own mismatched, posing a tacit query of whether or not to follow their parents to an unknown location before her shoulders roll briefly in their sockets in a silent shrug. elongated limbs soon propel the babe beyond the threshold of their haven and after her enigmatic father at a hasty pace, unwilling to stall for aster’s sake due to the intrigue reigning supreme over her budding psyche. and her brows furrow as they breach their targeted destination at arcanum’s boundaries, miniscule paws refusing to maneuver the viper any further as she halts adjacent to her mother’s right side, skull tipping upward in an attempt to meet her mother’s comforting gaze with uncertainty. though, despite the trepidation flaring within her inflated chest cavity, the viper’s stance remains entirely rigid, mimicking her mother’s own posture quite perfectly -- though she is wholly oblivious as to why.

tension engulfs the atmosphere surrounding them, and the viper’s molten gaze is unwavering from her father’s gargantuan physique as he navigates into the battered stranger’s proximities for reasons untold. an indignant snarl manifests upon the babe’s visage as her father embraces this unknown woman, hackles bristling duly upon the length of her spinal column as she steps forth and encroaches further upon her father’s space. { hey! he could only do that to her mother! } however, as a disconcerting crack! resonates through the air, the viper is stilled -- stagnant -- triangular ears swivelling forward as her jaws yet unhinge with astonishment. and as the stranger collapses into a grotesque heap before her father, the viper’s gaze widens before fixating upon the newly desceased, nimble limbs now incapable of propulsion due to a newfound and prominent sense of shock.

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