CAGE ME LIKE AN ANIMAL | cdc & ooc prompt & injuries & development

[ROSEMARY]

ROSEMARY ROUX

Rosemary was fond of all of Pincher's children - though especially the girls, though she loved Coldblue just as much now that he proved himself intelligent and magic-inclined. Cleo, the snake charmer, seemed potentially witch-like to the pale ocelot, and so she kept peaking an eye out every once and a while to check on the kid's progress. This one, like Aita and Katherine, seemed like a good candidate if she wanted to build a witch coven here.

She would've responded to Papercutter's with urgency no matter who he called her for, but hearing that Cleo needed help seemed to set off additional alarm bells inside her head. Because, really, what protective witchy aunt wouldn't feel flush with terror when a niece got struck down?

Hurrying over with her loaded satchel clinking with the noises of tins smashing together, Rosemary quickly settled down next to the fainted bengal kitten. She mostly ignored the dead boa constrictor and Esme, not too concerned with the dead snake and Cleo's favorite pet; Rosemary probably should've been concerned, but her fear for Cleo outweighed any other fears that might've floated around in her head. Tail lashing, she quickly touched her paw to Cleo's neck to feel for the girl's pulse. Breathing out a heavy sigh, she mumbled, "She's still alive, good." Sometimes bodies tended to twitch, which was unsightly, and also made Rosemary tend to check for a pulse regardless of slight movements or twitches. After all, corpses could do all sorts of terrifying things - like give birth.

"Cleo? Cleo, can you hear me?" the ocelot called out loudly, trying to encourage the twitching girl to rouse into wakefulness. Rosemary didn't want to use more insane methods to get the half-deaf girl to respond, so she started with this instead of smacking the girl's face like a terrified idiot.

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