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He was, after all, a creature of night. In many ways more than one. So the dragon was not wrong in assuming he would be lurking about somewhere.

When he heard the familiar settling groan he would make his move. Knowing that he had been waiting to catch the shifter alone, he would not miss the opportunity.

He would emerge from the shadows. The sun reflecting of his shiny black pelt. His eyes always held a subtle glow nowadays, even if he was totally calm.

“Bai.” he would say as he walked towards. Looking at the water bounce off their scales like diamonds. It was the quiet of night, and he only had them.

“Come here.”, he wanted to hold them. To love them and to snuggle them. There was things he had been to scared to say but now, realized the urgency of them.

He was clean now. He was himself... for the most parts. Though things had happened, Bai was always going to be his.

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His ears pinned to his head when Bai playfully called out his peeping tom behavior. He hadn’t meant to walk in on them bathing, but he didn’t regret it.

He dipped his head quietly as he walked closer. Worries? Something like that. It felt like the world was tipping off its axis and onto his shoulders. Kydobi cleared his throat Bai reminded him what this place was and what it meant.

For once, his mind returned to a happier memory. Allowing himself to get lost in the comforting thought, a beginning. Everything was brighter then. His nose touched theirs and he would linger before softly pulling away.

“Not too stressed. Just a little irritated with Tanglewood.”, he pointed to the wound on his back, “They all hate me. I don’t know what I did to them... but they blame me for actions I did not partake in.”

The jaguar sighed once more and he returned his gaze to the being before him. A bit brutish, but he would walk forward and press himself against their body. Searching for comfort in a world of chaos.

He didn’t really want to think about it all right now. But he also wanted to let the dragon know what was going on. On top of that, he was worried that feelings were not reciprocated.

“I went to go see my son. They gave him a terrible first impression... no one makes me feel more powerless than when I’m trying to talk sense to a Tanglewooder.”

Kydobi swallowed a lump in his throat, “sometimes... I wonder if they see something I don’t. I don’t wish harm on anyone but Aurum, Jervis, and Leroy. Kanga as well... wherever that fool lurks.”

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Eyes would close as a they began to groom him. He would sit there, just listening to their wise words and basking in their soft touch.

It brought immense comfort to know that he had touched someone’s life in such a good and seemingly impactful way. It was also a nice and fresh perspective to think that they hated him out of jealousy rather than belief he was evil.. and as much as he wanted to believe it was all envy, he feared the worst.

“I just want my children...”, he would say in a fragile whisper. He would shove his face in Bai’s armored scales. He felt his face quaking and didn’t wish for them to see the stoic mask break. Even if momentarily. But he wouldn’t cry, not around others.

Kydobi sighed as his eyebrows furled together in a frown. He had thought of a million things. Most of which, his children’s opinion on him. The marauder desperately wanted them to love him, he craved and fantasized about a relationship with them. A blossoming father and child bond that would only grow stronger and stronger as years passed.

The last thing he ever wanted any of his children to experience was a broken home. Before he knew of their existence he had always imagined his a happy home, with both parents in the picture. But that was far from what he got. And it was hard, he didn’t want them to feel that deep loneliness he had experienced so young. He didn’t want them to be damaged the way a lost child can be.

What he really didn’t want was them to view him as he viewed his father figure.

That was scariest of all.

He would blink away the heat building in his eyes. Knowing the dark tears wouldn’t do any good.

”I didn’t mean for them to happen. Didn’t think me and their mother were even... compatible like that.” he winced as he felt their tongue touch his wound, “but they’re here and I owe them as a father.”

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Although he had been moping, the soft caresses of Bai would send chills down his spine. Making Kydobi adjust his paws and swallow.

But the message was loud and clear, Aurum was an issue. Someone who had to be dealt with. Jervis? Jervis was somehow alive but not for long. He would make sure and he was positive Goldie would too.

Kydobi quickly forgot about his sorrows. Finding life in such simple and seductively sweet touches. Naturally, his mind wandered to more mature ideas. He was slightly confused as of how he had never ever gotten truly intimate with them before.


And they were in his favorite form as well. Kydobi’s eyes closed halfway in a slight trance, he would follow like a dog in a leash. Loving their tail on his shoulder. A simple “mhm” would be his agreement to their proposition.

Quietly the two traveled through the camp, anticipation tickling his pelt. He would happily watch them scale the sandstone. Getting a little more excited at the flexing muscles. When they spoke Kydobi looked away, slightly embarrassed.

Clearing his throat he smiled, “not expecting that.. but hoping for something even sweeter.” He would flirt.  Perhaps a little bold for the usually so socially careful cat. But he was a very lusty man despite his lack of activity apart from Indie.

He would climb the wall with significant ease. His paws gripped the wall with ease, not needing and crevice or crack. But it still took a large amount of strength to just defy gravity and climb vertically.

Plus he wanted to put on a show. He would be sure to flex all his muscles. Smiling as the moonlight reflected of their ripples. But then he remembered they were blind and probably couldn’t see it. He cleared his throat again and smiled.

There was brief confusion at the huge rock but he would ignore it. Quietly and rather quickly he would settle into the best beside them. Preferring to be in their embrace, he would rest his hind paws in them and pull them softly closer with his front legs.

But there was some things he had to get out. Something weighing heavy. His mouth suddenly got dry.. he either had to gush it all out or forever keep quiet.

“Bai... I love you. I really do and I didn’t want to admit it before but now i will”, he would shove his head in the space of their neck and shoulder, “I’m sorry for how I acted with Idyll. I don’t like them, never will because they can take you away from me. I don’t want to share you let alone lose you.”

He would pause... fearing they would reject him. His heart was thundering in his chest and his breath quickened in nervousness.

“I love you so much. Be with me. Be mine. Only mine... please. i need you.”

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It was going well until their second sentence. Kydobi’s ears pinned backwards when he heard them mention Idyll. As they continued he nearly pulled back, but found he couldn’t. He just froze. In all honesty he was shocked. He feared rejection but part of him had believed this would go smoothly.

But it hadn’t, and he was surprised but quickly realized that this was his life. What had he expected? This was how it always went. He was foolish to think his luck had changed just because he had died and started anew.

What they said made no sense. Bai shi wasn’t just some half-hearted fling. This was real, he meant it. He didn’t desire anyone, he hadn’t even wanted Indie. She was just a distraction, something to get him to stop thinking about Bai and Idyll.

If you loved someone you didn’t want anyone else. At least if love existed, that’s how he believed it worked.

So going by that logic, he figured Bai didn’t truly love him. It was one sided, at least that’s how he saw it.

He would remove his head, trying to hold in the tremors of a breaking heart. A hot cocktail of hurt and anger. No longer with gentleness, he would stand up and step away. Avoiding their gaze.

His lusty thoughts were all gone. First family? What? Didn’t they understand that he came here with nothing? That if he didn’t have those children... that without Bai he really had nothing?

Kydobi’s lip quivered and he would say nothing. Eyes stung but he wouldn’t cry, although dark tears dangerously pooled along his waterline. Trying to calm himself down, “Anyone but them.” but their inability to let the damn coyote go was all Kydobi needed to do so.

He would make the decision for them then. He wouldn’t give them the satisfaction of having two fools, “I guess we were never meant to be.” he said coldly. He locked it all away.

“They can have you.”, he was hurt truly, and while he wished to play it off as nothing he knew he would cry the moment he was out of sight.

He hadn’t even told Bai the news, “I have greater things to worry about than playing some sick game of tug of war with my heart.”

Uh oh, two whole steps backwards. Was all that time really a waste? His face quivered and he would turn suddenly and disappear.

He couldn’t control the tears but he would never let them see it. Now invisible to the naked eye, he would quickly make his way down the way he came.

And what could he do now?

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