05-24-2022, 03:26 AM
embrace my lungs -
Anger and horror seemed to be the mood that everyone wore here. She couldn't blame them. Nor could she blame them for the vocalizations of their frustrations. She listened now silently and calmly, her face a mask of complete peace. She was not going to be the one to poke the bear more than she already had. She didn't want to. Closing her eyes as she listened, feeling a burning heat at her core, ears flicking silently, a momentary bystander before inhaling and exhaling.
Romulus' and Agrimony's arrivals did not phase her, her face only twitching slightly in recognition of the Kingpin. His words washed over her ears and she had to bite her tongue to keep from a haughty response. Tail tip flicking side to side, the only thing to bely her thinning patience for the situation, calming herself deep at heart. At some point, she found the words that she prayed were correct, "Tanglewood's reputation is our own matter, Romulus, ser. If we did not come to right this wrong, would we have been any better than the tales told of the old?", she shook her head quietly, "Then, I request to attend the decided punishment. This is not my group, and I do thank you for the past in which you healed my wounds and let me stay, but I am the one to be in lead of this patrol. I will either return once the punishment is decided, or I will remain to be a constant force for them to remember what they've done until that time.", she flicked an ear as her gaze changed to the stallion before to Kiara, subtly stepping forward before her as she heard her groupmate's snarl. Bloodshed was not the immediate goal.
Her gaze carried on to cover Byriath and Plexus, ears flicking back and forth at Plexus' words, prompting a pained expression at the mention of 'Cipher'. Shaking her head lightly, "I did not know Ximen long, or well. But if it was a border skirmish, he was protecting his homeland from a potential threat. His body was beyond mangled.", a flinch, as if feeling the wounds on her own body, eyes growing faint for a moment. "Ximen was a dedicated member of Tanglewood. It's bad enough that you killed one of ours, but you killed one of our Reapers, Agrimony. You killed a man who had a family. You do not have the right to be angry with us, when the blood of the deceased is on your hooves and the paws of Inferno, and we've come to seek our justice. If you believe you have truly been wronged, than please, challenge me to a duel. We can let our weapons do the talking at that point.", her voice was steady, only growing more solemn as she spoke of a challenge.
Turning her head back to Plexus and Byriath, nodding to the current and former Guru respectfully. "I thank you for your honesty. It means something to me at the least. As I hope it means something to the wronged living.", she murmured softly before finally turning her gaze back to Romulus, answering his earlier offer, "A word shared between the both of us would be great. As for his family? I doubt they would be willing to have anything handed over, but I would request on their behalf that a grave marker is made. He will be laid to rest by our own, you need not dirty your paws in that affair. At most, if you would offer us anymore, it would not bode well. We will only take what was taken.", she bowed her head to the Kingpin, standing herself upright before looking to her groupmates for their input, "I do hope that the next time we cross borders, or meet upon them, it is not for reason of murder either in the right or wrong justice, but for more civil and peaceable ways."
Romulus' and Agrimony's arrivals did not phase her, her face only twitching slightly in recognition of the Kingpin. His words washed over her ears and she had to bite her tongue to keep from a haughty response. Tail tip flicking side to side, the only thing to bely her thinning patience for the situation, calming herself deep at heart. At some point, she found the words that she prayed were correct, "Tanglewood's reputation is our own matter, Romulus, ser. If we did not come to right this wrong, would we have been any better than the tales told of the old?", she shook her head quietly, "Then, I request to attend the decided punishment. This is not my group, and I do thank you for the past in which you healed my wounds and let me stay, but I am the one to be in lead of this patrol. I will either return once the punishment is decided, or I will remain to be a constant force for them to remember what they've done until that time.", she flicked an ear as her gaze changed to the stallion before to Kiara, subtly stepping forward before her as she heard her groupmate's snarl. Bloodshed was not the immediate goal.
Her gaze carried on to cover Byriath and Plexus, ears flicking back and forth at Plexus' words, prompting a pained expression at the mention of 'Cipher'. Shaking her head lightly, "I did not know Ximen long, or well. But if it was a border skirmish, he was protecting his homeland from a potential threat. His body was beyond mangled.", a flinch, as if feeling the wounds on her own body, eyes growing faint for a moment. "Ximen was a dedicated member of Tanglewood. It's bad enough that you killed one of ours, but you killed one of our Reapers, Agrimony. You killed a man who had a family. You do not have the right to be angry with us, when the blood of the deceased is on your hooves and the paws of Inferno, and we've come to seek our justice. If you believe you have truly been wronged, than please, challenge me to a duel. We can let our weapons do the talking at that point.", her voice was steady, only growing more solemn as she spoke of a challenge.
Turning her head back to Plexus and Byriath, nodding to the current and former Guru respectfully. "I thank you for your honesty. It means something to me at the least. As I hope it means something to the wronged living.", she murmured softly before finally turning her gaze back to Romulus, answering his earlier offer, "A word shared between the both of us would be great. As for his family? I doubt they would be willing to have anything handed over, but I would request on their behalf that a grave marker is made. He will be laid to rest by our own, you need not dirty your paws in that affair. At most, if you would offer us anymore, it would not bode well. We will only take what was taken.", she bowed her head to the Kingpin, standing herself upright before looking to her groupmates for their input, "I do hope that the next time we cross borders, or meet upon them, it is not for reason of murder either in the right or wrong justice, but for more civil and peaceable ways."
- your breath i keep
teef
MERLIN GWYNNE
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