Houdini
It was the furthest he had ever been from his home.
He laid on his side on a sturdy rock that hung just over one of the bubbling black pits. His gaze was fixed in a deep glare as his head raised to look at the pit the stink of burning tar having little effect on him after having gotten used to it a while ago. His mind was elsewhere; wondering if anyone in Abaven would find him all the way out there, wondering if they even noticed he was missing. He wondered how long his sisters had been missing before anyone noticed, and then he wondered how long Cloud had been gone before he noticed. His head dropped onto his forelegs with a dull ‘whup’, his burning glare now seething.
Part of him almost wanted the rock to collapse under his weight. In his mind no one cared for him. Cloud didn’t care about him enough to stay, Vali didn’t care that he was surely more qualified to be Primo than Sparrow, Sparrow didn’t care that unlike her he wanted to be Primo, Pyr didn’t care enough to stay and train him, and Bass…Bass never cared about him in the first place. Of that he was sure. He irritably knocked a stone off the rock with the back of his paw and watched it stick to the surface before slowly beginning to sink. He hated all of them. Hated Abaven. Hated Bass. Even hated Cloud. He hated them…and yet missed them all terribly.
Speaking Thinking You |
It wasn't long before she spotted another wolf nearby, and despite her mother's warnings ringing in her ears, she marched her way up to him and smiled. Her russet tail waved behind her and she held a bright and friendly expression on her cream masked face. "Hi there! You look a little upset, would you like help cheering up?" She sat not far away and watched him for any signs of aggression, she hoped he would be relatively friendly, anyway.
He looked at her with the same glare he had previously had fixed on the tar pit and snorted. “No. Get lost.” He said gruffly before turning his head away to resume brooding. In truth being alone was the last thing he wanted but he was far too stubborn and full of his own angst to say so. He raised his head to glance over his shoulder to see if the girl was still there and then looked away quickly hopefully before she noticed.
He kept his back turned toward her for a moment, feeling her eyes on him and picturing her stupid- happy expression. He let silence fill the space between them rather than tell her again to leave knowing full well that if she didn’t insist on staying he would call her back. He glanced at her again, this time trying to get a good look at her. She was pretty he supposed, not as pretty as the girl that had just joined Abaven but still. His heart clenched as he thought of Aranea and instantly a wave of guilt fell over him. He had liked her from the start, particularly because she had defended him when Sparrow had seen fit to treat him like a child. He’d abandoned her the same way Cloud had abandoned him, and it made him feel terrible.
Speaking Thinking You |
He turned that glare on her and she felt her red flag raise above her hips and her brow twitch up, it was all clearly subconscious movement and was quickly erased from her as he spoke. In response to her question, he retorted with a gruff, No. Get lost. The statement made her grin rather than any normal reaction, she supposed. Watching him turn back to the tarpit he was staring at, she let loose a giggle when he looked over at her again soon after. "Pretty sure I am already lost...sooo...too bad, you're stuck with me." She came closer, and sat by him. In an attempt to brighten him up a little, she turned a particularly grumpy stare at the tarpit he was staring at. The expression seemed hilariously misplaced on her masked face, but she kept her brows furrowed and her ears tilted forward. "I took off from home...My mom is gone, and apparently she thought my brother would be best to leave in charge. It's okay I guess, but she didn't even tell me she was leaving...So, here I am!" She looked at him without her previous grump, showing an amazing capacity for compartmentalizing her issues. She wondered what was eating at this boy, what could have him glaring at a pit of death as if it owed him something?