KEEP IT FLOWING / vigenere return

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DEAR FRIEND as you know,  your flowers are withering
your mother's gone insane, your leaves have drifted away.
but the clouds are clearing up
and i've come reveling, burning incandescently,
like a bastard on the burning sea.

YOU'RE JUST LIKE YOUR FATHER,
BURIED DEEP UNDER THE WATER.

It'd not been many days since the tigress had graced the lands with her presence, and in all honesty, it still brought the same pain as it had before. But she'd gone and returned with a mission, a package much more important than any gifts she could have personally picked out for the standard visit. She'd not told anyone of her intent to visit the Pitt - a stupid mistake, but one she did not think hard on. If she were to tell anyone, they would have simply tried to stop her, tried to go with her. She did not want to bring company. It would contradict the very words she spoke to the ardent when demanding her ally. She did not want to bring danger to any others, attention to anyone else. Keep it intimate - they knew Goldenluxury Roux and they knew the power she possessed. And in the end, it worked either way. So what did it really matter?

The winged tigress walked with her ally to its territory, stepping past the borders with him to ensure that his return was safe. Her own flight home would be easy enough afterwards. She'd repaid the debt she owed Vigenere in this act, and it did bring her any advantage to have her ally's leader captured, nor was it a good note to know in any case. They were growing more aggressive, and she was certain both Tanglewood and the Typhoon would soon need to work together once more to take care of a common enemy, the very thing that'd brought them together in the first place. They both needed to be at their strongest. Though the bags under her eyes, shake in her step did contradict such a notion. The female still held her head high, acted as proud as she needed to act. "Vigenere is home." She would call out simply, signaling the members to approach.

[member=601]VIGENERE CIPHER.[/member]

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[i][b]whose side are you on? [color=#008ab5]what side is this anyway?
put  down  your  sword  and  crown,
come  lay  with  me  on  the  ground.
you come beating like moth's wings, spastic and violently,
whipping me into a storm shaking me down to the core.

[VIGENERE CIPHER.]

[glow=white,1,400]LOOK INTO MY EYES, WE ARE NOT THE SAME ! — ｡+ﾟ.[/glow]

Oh, how Vigenere just wanted to explode back into camp and be where he was most comfortable - but Goldenluxury was escorting him back home and he didn't want to leave her behind, especially given how sluggish her movements seemed to be. The whole exchange with The Pitt had been... strange, to say the least - but at least he was home. And appeared to be physically sound, too, considering there were no major wounds on the savannah. Unbeknownst to Tanglewood, Vigenere's torture consisted of mostly mental torture, something Vigenere should have been able to fight off.

"Thank you, Goldenluxury." Vigenere looked at the tigress and dipped his head. "Why did you go there all alone? What if they had done something to capture you?" He practically blurted these questions out, his concerns for the Captain clearly overseeing his own. "You shouldn't have risked yourself - and your clan, like that." There were other matters to discuss here - namely, how tired Goldie looked - but that would come in time. Hopefully.[glow=COLOR,1,400] ━ ✧*:･ﾟ[/glow]

[DELILAH.]

DELILAH EVERGARDEN

"The Gods have forsaken us."

The territory had been silent with the missing body of their leader, Delilah rushing around to help set the defenses high enough to defend the camp should another attack start- but her powers could only go so far. She could only do so much before she gave in to the weakness- she wasn't a leader.

Her head lifted from the ground where she napped in the sun, scales warmed- her wing had mostly healed, vision still blurry from injury to her eyes during the raid. However, when the familiar smell of Vigenere swiped past her nose, Delilah jerked her head towards the scent.

"Viggy? Is that you? G-Goldie.. Thank you, thank you so much.."

The soft croon that left the dragon was close to a sob, snout brushing against Vigenere's cheek to nudge him in greeting. He was back.. But Goldenluxury had gone alone, hadn't she?

"Are you okay, you two? Any wounds? Goldie, you're free to stay and rest. I have some herbs to aid you on your travel back if you need them-"

tags - penned by [member=1260]ryuu-tan[/member]

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DEAR FRIEND as you know,  your flowers are withering
your mother's gone insane, your leaves have drifted away.
but the clouds are clearing up
and i've come reveling, burning incandescently,
like a bastard on the burning sea.

YOU'RE JUST LIKE YOUR FATHER,
BURIED DEEP UNDER THE WATER.

"I am the Pitt's worst nightmare," the female would state bluntly at first with a slight smirk, half a joke, half the truth. Though it's clear it's off, and it falters soon enough. "If I brought someone wit' me, it would've jus' seemed like I was there t' fight. It was better I went by m'self. No one else could interfere, no one else could get hurt." She honestly was expecting them to turn her away, but she was glad her attempt worked. Perhaps their newest ardent wasn't as stupid as the rest of them, if not as violent. They needed to keep on their guard still. Just because Goldie was not a fan of senseless, goalless violence, did not mean that their leader was the same.

She goes quiet as Delilah approaches, letting the other speak and welcome back Vigenere. "They didn' get a chance to lay a paw on me." The most that happened was an inexperienced kitsune thinking she could take on the demigoddess of raging storms with electricity, and a few threats she did not care to dwell on. She'd heard them all plenty before. And if they were to attack, then so be it. Countless others tried and failed. She turns her attention back to the Tanglewood leader, however, focusing her gaze. "Let me help wit' your wounds, though. I don' want them t' get infected." Just because they were minor didn't mean they were any less harmful if left untouched for long.

"N', I know you jus' returned, but I need t' know if you saw anythin'. Wit' the new ardent in place, I need t' know m' terms o' their surrender are still set in stone."

[div style="font-size: 11px; color: #008ab5; font-family: georgia; text-align: center; line-height: 100%; word-spacing: 10px; padding: 3%;"]ϟ    ϟ    ϟ
[i][b]whose side are you on? [color=#008ab5]what side is this anyway?
put  down  your  sword  and  crown,
come  lay  with  me  on  the  ground.
you come beating like moth's wings, spastic and violently,
whipping me into a storm shaking me down to the core.

[VIGENERE CIPHER.]

[glow=white,1,400]LOOK INTO MY EYES, WE ARE NOT THE SAME ! — ｡+ﾟ.[/glow]

Despite Delilah being a familiar face, her pressing her face against his fur caught Vigenere off guard and he flinched slightly, though made no movement to push her away. "I'm fine, they... surprisingly didn't hurt me physically." The mental torture that happened, though... Vigenere didn't want to dwell on it. He hated how powerless it had made him feel. Some dream demon he was, if he couldn't fight against a simple manipulation tactic.

Goldenluxury commenting on how she was The Pitt's worst nightmare did bring a smile to Vigenere's face, though her weariness is what cause his own cheerfulness to falter. "Golden, I promise I'm fine." He meowed. "But what about you?" He hadn't been here when Goldie had come to announce Sam's death, so he had no idea what had her so stressed. He honestly thought it was just related to being a leader; hell, he was stressed most of the time anyway. He paused at Goldenluxury's question regarding The Pitt's promise, tilting his head in thought. "You mean about the whole. Slave thing, right? As far as I've noticed, they didn't bring that back." Hopefully that would ease some stress off her.[glow=COLOR,1,400] ━ ✧*:･ﾟ[/glow]