// after selby has treated her of course

Sam was definitely NOT supposed to be up. Broken ribs, broken arm, bleeding all the time.. yet, here she was, dragging her wounded body amongst camp, then out towards the swamp. Being stuck up inside was killing Samantha, and despite visits and Selby keeping her company, she was going nuts. A bad taste in her mouth reminded her of the cell at the Arena.

So getting out and about was clearing Sam's mind. But her duties, hearing someone call out, was something she still had to attend to. Gaunt looking and coughing, she dragged herself up in front of the tiger. Yeah, she wasn't ambushing her. That was like, Beck's job she guessed. Though Beck wasn't in the best condition anyways. "Welcome t' Tanglewood. Name's Sam, a guardsman here. Y' got any questions?" Sam pulled herself to a stop, before sitting down with a wheeze. Ow.

"SPEECH"

Worm, ever since Sam and Beck had returned to the group, had been keeping a close eye on the both of them, to make sure that they didn't go around fucking themselves up more. Then the lion had looked away for what felt like five minutes, and all of a sudden Sam was gone, and her scent was going off into the wild where she definitely shouldn't be at the moment. He had sighed extremely heavily at the fact that she was probably fucking herself up even more, and he slowly followed after her scent, looking around as he walked along through the thick growth of Tanglewood. Soon enough he heard a slightly raised voice calling out through the trees, and he blinked at the unfamiliarity of it, his hackles immediately raised as he sped up his pace, rushing along towards the voice and where Sam's scent was leading. He wasn't about to let some fucker mess Sam up even more, in case they were just pretending that they were looking for a new home. Normally he wouldn't be so suspicious of somebody saying they wanted to join, but honestly he was quite a bit on edge lately, and he didn't want Sam being any more hurt, by anything or anyone. At the very least Beck wasn't also here, also completely ignoring Selby's advice to stay inside.

Coming up beside Sam, he flicked his tail gently against her spine in greeting and shot her a little concerned glance before hearing the tiger. Snorting softly, the lion rumbled softly at Eternalwar as he shook his head a bit, [glow=#165042,1,400]"She's not alright. In fact, she's quite injured, and she's supposed to be staying at home right now, but I guess ignoring our medic's advice is just fine."[/glow] He zigjed and shook his head at Sam before focusing his attention on Eternalwar, blinking at the female's very intimidating looking form. She certainly wasn't the first tiger that was in Tanglewood, but she didn't look like any other tiger that he had seen before, with her black fur and flaming stripes. Trying not to stare too openly, the lion shook his head and rumbled as his tail flicked slowly from side to side, [glow=#165042,1,400]"Anyways, ignoring that, it's nice to meet you and welcome you into Tanglewood. I'm Wormwood. I like your pelt. It's very... unique."[/glow] He didn't mean to hesitate when he complimented her pelt, but he also wasn't sure what kind of adjective would truly apply to the odd reverse coloration she possessed.

Sam had opened her mouth to reply, but guess what, SOMEONE wasn't gonna let her. Wormwood had showed up, and her ears flattened as his tail brushed her spine. Okay, rude. Sam's green eyes turned to scold him, her ears flattened and teeth shown in a tiny bit of a snarl. "Hey, next time you're injured like this, you can try staying at home all day with nothing to do and a itch for something you can't do anymore." She snapped back, tail lashing. She offered a wince as the muscles along her body tensed, her spine crying out in pain.

Sam looked back towards EternalWar, flattening her ears again. Falling over? Sam might've been swaying to and fro, but she wasn't going to fall over. She didn't even realize that she was leaning into Worm's leg at this point, her body tense and almost all of her weight on him. "Sure. I can show you around if you'd like."

"SPEECH"

She's staring.

Halo has never - ever - known the art of subtlety. Well, perhaps to an extent, but she has never cared for it. Blunt and straight to the point is much more her style.

Wormwood with his wings had been strange enough, but the tiger in front of them right now is a whole different type of odd. After all, the colors should be normal, but they're mismatched.

Blinking violet eyes, the light brown wolf takes a few more steps forward, looking Eternalwar up and down with a rather neutral expression adorning her facial features. She doesn't react at first. The look is enough. Inhaling sharply, she briefly moves her attention to the winged lion and then... Sam. Antlers. Oh here they go again with all the weird mutations and shit. Halo doesn't quite know the story behind the other female's injuries (being new will do that), but the situation feels like it has bully written all over it -

Apparently Halo would prefer bully over straight up enemy.

"I'm Halo." Finally speaking up, she looks back to Eternalwar, offering a small smile now that she has gotten a chance to silently observe her surroundings, as interesting as they are. "You said your name is Eternalwar?" She has to swallow the lump in her throat, biting back the urge to make some sarcastic comment. Like what? Who in the world names their child Eternalwar? Is there some violent background here? Then again... She glances towards Wormwood, only regarding him out of the corner of her eye before tipping her head back in the slightest to look up at the sky. She needs to keep herself distracted before she makes herself sound bitchy.

Wiggles. It's a pretty odd name for the large lion, but he doesn't do much about it but just blink in surprise and feel a faint embarrassed heat come to his face. He wasn't used to having his wings be called pretty, so he just gave a soft nod to the newcomer, and a little smile as his wings twitched. He looked back down at Sam when she spoke up, and he let out a little amused chuff before rumbling, [glow=#165042,1,400]"You know as well as I do that you didn't need to come all the way out here to keep yourself entertained. Hell, you probably could've just gone to Feza's house. She could keep you entertained for days."[/glow] He shook his head a little before paying attention to how she was standing, noticing the way that pretty much the entirety of the doecat's weight was leaned up against one of his powerful legs. He didn't do anything to get her off of him, instead just straightening up a little so that she had plenty to lean against so she didn't fall over. When she said that she would show Eternalwar around, he winced before rumbling softly at her, not wanting to point out the face that she was leaning against him, but also not wanting her to collapse, [glow=#165042,1,400]"We could also do a double tour, if you'd like. Tanglewood's territory is very complex, even when you've been here a while."[/glow]

Looking up when he heard other footsteps approaching, Wormwood felt his entire body tense up before he saw that it was just Halo. He hadn't seen her around much yet, but at the very least she was a member of the group, and not a threat. Upon hearing what she had asked, he snorted and pointed out as he shifted his wings back against his spine, done preening over being complimented, [glow=#165042,1,400]"It is a rather intriguing name for someone to have... then again, my parents named me Wormcub, so I can't really say others have odd names."[/glow] He chuckled a bit, although it was slightly soft and strained, mainly because of how much stress he had been other lately. He wanted desperately to continue being a calm and friendly presence to newcomers, and to show a positive viewpoint to his overwhelmingly pessimistic clanmates, but just the presence of Sam leaning against his leg reminded him of how some of the people he loved the most were still suffering and injured, and others still weren't even in camp anymore. His thoughts drifted to Red for a moment, and how he wished in agony that one of the people who showed up at the border these days turned out to be the missing gorilla.

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