He'd been like this for a while now, numb to the world around him. Skin cold to the touch and he didn't know when it would reverse and he would be...normal again. Or whatever semblance of normal he had to begin with. His breath always left his muzzle in a puff of cold smoke that drifted down to the ground. He felt nothing against his skin but a strange tingling sensation whenever someone touched him and now he was much tired than he was before. Though there was no pain from the three gashes that had been cut into his sides but he had managed to get them bandaged up despite that. Still he was reeling from what had happened and for a second time he was hurt, hurt trying to be political, hurt trying to be nice and understanding. Harmed because he was not vicious like the rest of them. The idea alone unnerved him that when he tried to be on the right scale of the morale code it back slapped him in the face. What sort of leader was he when he couldn't protect himself? When he couldn't protect those he cared about? When time and time again his own actions caused others and himself to be put in danger. He didn't even realize the gritting of his jaw until he slammed his own paw against the ground causing eyes to shoot across the floor of his own him.

A held breath escaped him and he stumbled forward, vision blurring for a moment. He needed to get out there and tell his haveners, warn them. But everything was so difficult. He sluggishly pushed himself forward and shoved his way out of his home. Numbed limbs moved near the fountain but he never got there, energy just too depleted to make it and so he sat down and curled his tail around his paws. He felt stiff and he looked around before speaking up. "Sunhaveners! I have an announcement tae make!" For a moment he waited, allowing his ears to pull back against his skulls before he breathed in slowly. "Not tae long ago a raptor came ontae our territory. It killed one of our members and I managed tae retrain it. A typhooner by the name of Owen showed up and he said the beast was feral and that we shouldn't be walking alone if we didn't want tae be attacked. He wasn't an ounce apologetic for that thing killing one of us. Even wanted tae take the corpse back and let his thing eat it. Bucky and I made 'em leave." His head had started swimming from talking so much and he swallowed thickly before he forced himself to continue on.

"I...arranged for Bucky, Pierce, and myself tae go tae the Typhoon tae discuss the situation. It didn't go well... Owen showed up and he ain't have one but two of them raptors. They attacked us and only one Typhooner had the decency tae try and stop tae help us. Pincher didn't..." He felt his tongue go dry for a moment and he squeezed back the image of the raptor lunging at him, of claws sinking into his flesh. Of Stryker. "We ain't friends with the Typhoon. They don't care about their neutrals and we ain't gonna care about them. No trading no nothin'. I don't want anyone to go alone on the territory so if ya need tae do something take a buddy please.... It's trouble enough with them siking raptors on us..."

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He hated the fact that they would become mice in their own lands but he had to protect them right. The raptors were not invincible and they were just feral creatures, easily tried by minds smarter than theirs. He frowned a bit as he looked over to Pierce, eyes shifting for a moment before he gave a light nod of his head to the male. "Yes, we ain't gonna welcome them here so if they are caught on our border we drive them away. I don't care if they don't set foot on our lands they ain't welcomed. We will also be making a barricade along the mountain range in key areas with gates tae have a safety buffer. Big enough that they can't just waltz in without tryin real hard." He was sure that that would help to thwart any would be attackers who might try to get in. If they wanted to get in they'd have to swim the fjord. Or come by sea.